8 h. ago China woman finds first love after 16 years at his shop: couple quickly get engaged

A Chinese woman ran into the first love of her life at a noodle shop 16 years after they last met, and the pair got engaged six days later. The woman was buying breakfast as usual at a rice noodle shop in Huizhou city, Guangdong province, southern China, on August 23, when she suddenly realised that the owner was her secondary school sweetheart and first love. She asked him if he really was who she thought he was and they began chatting before exchanging contact information. The owner of the...

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7 d. ago Bollywood Film ‘Love in Vietnam’ Lands China Distribution Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

Bollywood Film ‘Love in Vietnam’ Lands China Distribution Deal (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety

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8 d. ago Chinese tourists’ love affair with Paris deepens as visits surge 15%

Many Chinese tourists arriving in Paris in recent weeks have been surprised by the same thing: the quiet. August is the traditional holiday month in France, when most Parisians flee the capital for sunny beaches in the south or exotic destinations abroad. “The French have all left, some neighbourhoods have barely any people,” one user wrote on the Chinese social platform RedNote. Others posted photos of deserted boulevards near Parc Monceau and the Musée d’Orsay. But that has not stopped Chinese...

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1 week ago China delivery man tells US teacher ‘I love you’ in lift; pair tie knot 5 months later

A food courier in northeast China who greeted a US nursery teacher he delivered noodles to with the words “I love you” in a lift married the woman five months later. Recently, the man, surnamed Liu, 27, from Shenyang, Liaoning province, shared his love story on social media. In a video, Liu introduced his wife as Hannah Harris, a 30-year-old from the US state of Alabama who moved to Shenyang last August to teach English at a kindergarten. In November last year, Liu first met Harris after she...

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2 w. ago Exhibition | Wu Yi, 'Love in Midsummer' at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing 2nd Space, China

Exhibition | Wu Yi, 'Love in Midsummer' at Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing 2nd Space, China  Ocula

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2 w. ago ‘Still believe in love’: China tycoon known for bitter divorce remarries ex

A 61-year-old Chinese business tycoon has remarried a woman the same age as him after a bitter six-year divorce battle. The fresh nuptials, which challenge the stereotype of wealthy older men marrying much younger women, have earned the successful businessman widespread praise online. Li Guoqing, 61, is a Peking University graduate and the co-founder and former CEO of Dangdang, one of China’s first and most well-known online book retailers. Founded in 1999 with his former wife, Peggy Yu,...

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2 w. ago China’s wartime message can sit alongside a love of today’s Japan

This year, China marks the 80th anniversary of its victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression – part of the broader victory in the World Anti-Fascist War. Across the country, commemorative exhibitions, television documentaries and a wave of summer blockbuster films have been rolled out to mark the occasion. These films, set in the dark days of the 1930s and 1940s, are not just historical dramas; they are cultural reminders. They show the destruction of war, the brutality of the...

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2 w. ago China Is In Love With This Smartphone Company's EVs. Its Next Stop: Europe

China Is In Love With This Smartphone Company's EVs. Its Next Stop: Europe  InsideEVs

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