Bingo! Local bar hits the spot
IF you like a challenge, but nothing too strenuous, the Toud Original Toy Bar on Xianxia Road could be just the place for you and your friends.
Hard Rock Cafe too expensive, but fun
"I LIKE rock and roll so I come to Hard Rock Cafe," said Huang Yanhong who works for Microsoft, China.
Oasis: alive despite pop media disdain
LONDON - Oasis, hailed as the new Beatles but then reviled as Neanderthals re-inventing the same old wheel, are alive and well and wowing them in Japan.
A lesson in manners
THE table is set with a pristine, clean white cloth, on which stand different bottles of wine, cups and knives and forks. At the head of the table sits Grace Teng, the picture of grace and good manners.
Hangzhou now has five-star Radisson
SHANGHAI people who would like to take themselves off for a weekend in the nearby city of Hangzhou, in East China's Zhejiang Province, now have one more choice for their two-day stay.
Food, wine that's a California blend
THE California Restaurant on the lobby level of Regal International East Asia Hotel has a rich Californian flavour these days featuring Stonehedge Wines from the Napa Valley and guest chef Kelley Novak from the US state.
Thai food festival unveiled at Orient Express Restaurant
BEAUTIFUL scenery and friendly people aside, visitors to Thailand are usually sold on its food.
Israel's 'singing Cinderella' dies
JERUSALEM - Singing star Ofra Haza, who died in hospital last Wednesday, was known as Israel's Cinderella after emerging from humble roots to win international acclaim for her haunting voice and exotic blend of Middle Eastern and Western styles. Haza, 41, was admitted to a Tel Aviv hospital on February 12 with a mystery ailment and had been in and out of a coma since then, triggering an outpouring of emotion from fans across the country along with a barrage of rumours and press speculation about her condition. She was said to have flu, which degenerated into pneumonia, and at the end she was on dialysis and being treated intravenously. Married since 1997 to business-man Doron Ashkenazi, Haza had no children. The daughter of Jewish-Yemenite parents and one of eight children, Haza rose from a childhood in a poor Tel Aviv neighbourhood to carve out a musical career that won her accolades worldwide, including a Grammy nomination. Haza twice flirted with death. In February 1987 she survived an air-plane crash on the Israeli-Jordanian border, a date she celebrated as a second birthday, and in 1994 she was on a plane that made an emer-gency landing after being struck by lightning on the London-Tel Aviv route. (Agencies via Xinhua)
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