A family reunion dinner on the Chinese New Year's Eve   A simple click on the menu and your Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner will be delivered to your home by restaurants. Recently, a new trend for the New Year's Eve celebration has appeared: many restaurants have launched online booking services for family reunion dinner on the Chinese New Year's Eve.   Online shopping for New Year's Eve dinner means ordering partially prepared dishes to be delivered by restaurants and cooking at home for the family reunion. The prices range from 100

Major C2C sellers may have to acquire business license, pay taxes   While online shopping has become increasingly popular among the Chinese, the government is mulling further regulations for online stores.   The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) is expected to publish new regulations on C2C (consumer-to-consumer) online trading next month, media has reported.   The reports said major C2C sellers will have to register for a business license and pay taxes, while small-level sellers will not be required to do

BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Supporters outnumbered opponents Sunday in an online poll on introducing a real-name system to online retail registration after China's commerce authority issued a draft to solicit public opinion. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce released a draft regulation on its website Friday, saying personal information of people applying to start an online store, including their real names and address, would be required when registering with the e-commerce agents. It also said eligible retailers would be approved by the e-trading

    The spa lifestyle is finally homeward bound: from cooking classes, stress management and relax-yoga courses, to the full spa decor and atmosphere complete with candles, spa clothing and products, of course). Soon it will all be available on your doorstep. Traditional bathrooms are turning into spa bathrooms as the "wellness" concept inspires the desire for fitness, meditation and relaxation at home. If you want to enjoy a spa, it is not always necessary to go to your professional spa center. With some preparation, you can now enjoy it at home in a

Hell is beautiful.   A profound meditation on what the human species is doing to the planet we live on, "Manufactured Landscapes " is also the art-curio event of the year: A film that begs to be hung on the wall, studied, absorbed, and learned from. Director Jennifer Baichwal takes the industrial landscape photography of Edward Burtynsky and unfreezes it in time, releasing images of unparalleled loveliness and damage. The result is a hymn to disorder and, implicitly, a warning. . There's little narration, no former vice president explaining what it all

  Xiamen will soon have a world class International car racing circuit. Other than F1 racing, the circuit has been designed to accommodate any other international racing events.   The race track which will be built in Xiang'an, Xiamen and is set to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The idea is to look for a sporting lifestyle consistent to the World and to be found here in China and in Xiamen to a larger extend. It is intended and hoped that Xiamen will become an internationally renowned outdoor sporting city and China car racing hub.

Online stores to adopt real-name system   The State Administration for Industry & Commerce of China has formally published the “Interim Measures for Management of Network Commodity Trade and Related Services”, effective from July 1, 2010. According to the measures, individual online sellers in China who wish to sell goods via the Internet should submit applications to the operators of e-commerce platforms with their true identity information, including names and addresses. By doing this, anonymous sellers of goods will hopefully be eradicated.

With online shopping business growing rapidly in China, Internet models, who are generally untrained amateurs or students, are in great demand, considering the high cost of hiring professional models in online shops. Internet models don't necessarily have to be tall or good at catwalks, but they need to know how to match clothes to look good and have animated facial expressions for posing for photos in dozens or even hundreds of outfits. Their earnings are said to be quite pale in comparison with professional models, however.   An Internet model poses for photos in an

A Web photo shows the homepage of Taobao.com, one of China's largest websites for online stores.   Internet entrepreneurs are now required to register their personal details, including their real names and addresses, with e-commerce agents before they begin to operate their businesses online, according to a regulation that came into effect on Thursday.   Many online shop owners are worried that the regulation, issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), the country's market regulator, is a signal that the government is preparing