Flowers set featuring Valentine's Day attracts many citizens in Shanghai
Flowers are seen in a shop in Caojiadu flower market in Shanghai, east China, Feb. 14, 2017. Flowers set featuring the Valentine's Day attracted many citizens on Tuesday.
Valentine's Day celebrated around China
A couple take selfies among peach flowers on the Valentine's Day in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 14, 2017. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)
College students celebrate Valentine's Day in campus
College student Xie Hongtao with his stewardess-to-be girfriend celebrate their Valentine's Day in campus in SW China's Sichuan Province on Feb. 14, 2017.
Show your love on Valentine's Day
A couple kiss in front of a church in Xinjiang County, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 13, 2017.
Valentine's Day marked around world
People launch balloons as they celebrate Valentine's day in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2017.
What to do when the most romantic holiday of the year is anything but?
Once again you have to buy flowers for your wife, even though you quarrelled with her that morning and only want to get as far away from her as possible. But no, you have to be romantic. Maybe even light some candles, but a present and have a dinner for two.
Flowers for romantic day
Photo taken on Feb 13 shows flowers for sale in Changchun of Jilin province. With couples set to enjoy Valentine's Day, flower traders in China are also welcoming the boost that the annual celebration of romance is providing for their sales.
Nonagenarian pens love poems to wife across 62 years
A 94-year-old academic has warmed the cockles of Chinese netizens' hearts this Valentine's Day with poems to his wife, expressing deep, enduring love for his partner of over six decades.
Preparing for Valentine's Day
A vendor prepares flowers and gifts ahead of the Valentine's Day at the Pak Klong Talad flower market in Bangkok, Thailand, Feb. 13, 2017.
Lesbian mother calls on NPC members to grant unmarried women reproductive rights
Prior to China's parliamentary session, a lesbian mother in Shenzhen, Guangdong province called on officials to end the limitations placed on unmarried women trying to have children through assisted reproductive technology (ART).
The look of love: New Year present for migrant workers
Photo provided by a photo studio shows Huang Jingwen (R) and Yang Yingzhi posing for wedding photos in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 30, 2016. Huang Jingwen and Yang Yingzhi are both from Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province and currently work on a construction project in Beijing. As a New Year present, a photo studio in Beijing took wedding photos for free for the couple who will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their marriage in 2017.
The Chinese couple heading for the super, white yonder
Thirty years ago, a chubby Chinese boy promised to take his sweetheart to the South Pole. It was the girl's dream to see the "world's most remote place."
Thanksgiving parade celebrated in New York with heightened security
The 90th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City kicked off on Thursday among unprecedented law enforcement presence as millions of spectators gathered along the route to marvel at the annual spectacle.
People on dating apps to look for long-term partners: Australian research
Australian researchers have found that a large number of singletons are going on dating apps to look for long term relationships and not for short-term hook-ups.
Caught in an endless three-month dating cycle, some young Chinese talk “curse”
“I am wondering if am I trapped in some kind of dating curse, why my relationships never last more than three months,” said Hu Yiran, a 25-year-old girl based in Beijing, who just broke up with her fourth boyfriend a few weeks ago.
Hunting for mistresses: A novel way to save marriage
To avoid the public embarrassment of a messy divorce Chinese women are looking at alternative ways to save a marriage from their husband's infidelity. The AFP reported on the services of a 'mistress hunter,' a woman hired to persuade the mistress to leave the husband.
Tradition-affected US couples least like to divorce in December: sociologists
Would you consider filing for divorce based on the time of year? Clearly some couples do. Researchers at the University of Washington found that more couples choose March and August to divorce, the American newspaper Seatle Times reported on Thursday.
American couple die minutes apart after 63 years of marriage
An American couple married for over six decades has proven that even death is not strong enough to keep the loved ones separated.