Sex out, friendship in: survey

It’s official: sex doesn’t sell. Well, not if you’re looking for love anyway.

A study of nearly 150,000 romantic hopefuls found friendship rates over the sins of the flesh.

High-tech is the new black

Technology seems to be the new black when it comes to this year’s Australian Fashion Week, which begins today.

Brit-pop legend hits Beijing stage

British bassist Gary Mounfield, considered a demigod by rock fans, hit the Beijing stage April 17 as part of his concert tour with Manchester band Puressence.

Two expats become Beijing’s pioneer ‘ model workers’

Luc Picard and Aki Kishi this year became the first foreigners ever to be named “model workers,” by the Beijing government – a title that calls for emulation from the capital’s 16 million residents.

Dream of world-class universities

“China doesn’t have any world-class universities, and its most prestigious ones have had to rely on money,” Xu Zhihong, a former president of Peking University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at a forum last week.

Marrying into wealth deemed shortcut to success

“Red Book on the Values of University Girls in Guangzhou,” a survey recently conducted by the All-China Women’s Federation in Guangdong, revealed that 59 percent of female university students in the province wished to marry into “the second generation of money.”

World’s biggest battlefield – Carmakers rev up to fight for China market

It is not just the world’s biggest car market: it is the biggest battleground. Auto executives from around the world agreed, as they rushed to the China auto show to figure out how, and how fast, the market is evolving.

F1’s future sure or shaky?

Formula One (F1) will return next year and its China race will continue, said Bernie Eccle-ston when the Shanghai event ended April 18. The F1 supremo insisted the Chinese stop has a bright future, despite its failure to attract a local audience.

Mall’s ‘live-action play’ may be the future

My Joy City, being pitched as the country’s first “live-action play,” made its debut at Joy City mall April 18. “It’s a drama: we have college actors, we have a script and director and we have rehearsed. But we are staging it in a shopping mall instead of a theater,” said Liu Honglei, the script writer.

Panda population comes under the ax of ‘progress’

It has been 30 years since China started to save the giant panda. That history reads like a log of misguided efforts to save the world’s best-known endangered species