Some materials are synonymous with luxury — marble, lacquer, mohair. Then there’s burl wood, the most characterful of them all, despite its rather unfortunate backstory. Technically a tree’s tumor, it ...

Photo: CCTV+ SHENZHEN, China—One of the most popular events at a Chinese exporters’ exhibition last week was a session teaching merchants how to sell more in Russia. Hundreds of attendees ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A soldier's name carved into the walls of a French underground city has been traced back to a Barnsley man. The town of Naours, north of ...

During the 2025 Chinese New Year, it’ll be intriguing to see what the stars have in store for us. On that note, here are the lucky months in the Year of the Wood Snake 2025 for each Chinese zodiac ...

Today, many of those projects are dead or have been sold off. A visit by a Wall Street Journal reporter earlier this year to Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, found that the site of German carmaker ...