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Photo: DOAN HAO LUONG On display at the exhibition are 200 excellent paintings selected from 2,456 entries by children drawn on A3 white paper with colours of their choice such as coloured pencils, ...

The popular Chinese franchise Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice (杨铭宇黄焖鸡米饭) is at the center of attention this week—for all the wrong reasons. The company, which opened its first restaurant in 2011 and has ...