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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to China was revealing.

In Zhejiang province's Hangzhou, one of the largest hotbeds of the emerging wealthy class, Century Lianhua Supermarket Heping Branch has set aside an area for Italian luxury and tailor-made brands.

Chinese shoppers are so hungry for luxury items that they have started snapping up Gucci wallets and made-to-order shirts while grocery shopping.

Framed by mountains overlooking its mystical West Lake , Hangzhou's romantic ambiance offers visitors a scenic perch from which to explore not only the area's natural beauty but its cultural riches, its regional cuisine, fragrant local teas and "hands on" arts and crafts.

A North Korean special envoy has met with a senior Chinese communist party official in Beijing.

Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate, seven breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners, transport and sightseeing on tour, and an expert English-speaking tour leader from $3490 a person, twin share.

Shopping malls will surpass office and residential space as the most profitable type of property investment on the mainland over the next two to five years, thanks to the nation's booming middle class and its fast-growing income, says ARA Asset Management, a property investment firm partly owned by Li Ka-shing. "District shopping centres with a ... (more)

Maldives resort Niyama has recently requested its agents to check tourists' marriage certificates to avoid fake applicants.

Shang Xia, a Chinese luxury brand backed by French fashion house Hermes, has finally confirmed its grand opening in Paris, which is planned for September.

In an underground mall just a stone's throw from the Chinese mainland's border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical gold plaques do a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland visitors, many of them bound for the gambling hub.

The Centers for Disease Control said recently that despite the outbreak of H7N9 bird cases and the widespread incidence of air pollution, China is still a safe destination for tourists.

China's Premier Li Keqiang and Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras talk during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last week.

The colorful, electric sign was something of an unusual and unexpected greeting for Briton Simon Cockerell, 35, who this week embarked on a landmark visit to Sinuiju, North Korea's largest border town.

A man watches in front of a window display outside a Gucci store in Hong Kong January 17, 2013.

Two years ago, the Shanghai Ing Chang-Ki Wei-Chi Education Foundation hosted a group of 11 American college students to participate in a week long go summer camp in China.

The Philippines has protested the presence of a Chinese warship and other vessels off a Filipino military-occupied shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands.

President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific.

Cheap and cheery: Japan's Fast Retailing last month opened a 37,500 square foot Uniqlo store in the iconic Causeway Bay, which overtook New York's Fifth Avenue as the world's most expensive retail location.

Hotel art fairs are the antithesis of the "white cube" concept for a gallery space, and some consider it decidedly unfashionable.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before address a joint press briefing in New Delhi.