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  • Oct 3, 2013
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14 Feb 2013

You knew the scientists were going to be all over this.

5:16PM
14 Feb 2013

On the eve of Valentine's Day, as businesses in big cities across the mainland geared up to cash in on the romantic occasion, the Communist Party's mouthpiece newspaper warned yesterday that in...

12:22PM
14 Feb 2013

Romantics around the world prepare to take their loved ones somewhere extra special for the day of the year most associated with love. 

1:29AM
14 Feb 2013

In Hong Kong, lovers tend to celebrate Valentine's Day by eating. In response, restaurants across town roll out special romantic set meals for two. These range from boozy brunches to over-the-top...

2:38AM
14 Feb 2013

Lovers' bouquets are winging their way from florists all across the city on Valentine's Day today, but romance does not always blossom at the other end. On their busiest day of the year, flower...

12:23PM
14 Feb 2013

One February 14, at some otherwise unspecified point in the third century AD, a Roman christian named Valentinus is believed to have been martyred for his faith.

9:38AM

Many couples will be out tonight, wining and dining with their loved ones. But while the masses are giggling over complimentary glasses of prosecco and sniffing red roses, chefs' partners get a...

5:41PM

Valentine's Day isn't looking so enchanting this year for florists, who expect orders to be down by one-third because February 14 is so close to the Lunar New Year holiday.

Last year the...

5:50AM

Looking for love, wealth or health? Then Jetstar Asia may have just the thing for you.

2:19AM

Unfortunately for Beijing romantics, February 14 falls on a national holiday this year.

12:09PM

It's that time of year again when couples scramble to make reservations at the city's most romantic restaurants. 

9:26AM

Xiong Jian, a 26-year-old communications engineer working in Hunan, thought marriage was a distant prospect until two weeks ago when he received a call from his mother in Wuhan telling him she had...

5:43AM

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