A businesswoman from central China who once enjoyed a life of privilege is now rebuilding her future through hard physical labour in rural lotus ponds. A Chinese businesswoman who lost her fortune is ...

Hu admits she once loved glamour and had never done physical labour. A former businesswoman from Hunan province, China, has turned to farming to repay a massive debt after her once-luxurious life came ...

To show his 11-year-old daughter how forgoing a standard education could affect her future, a father from China’s Hubei Province forced the young girl to dig lotus roots for four hours in scorching ...

Chef and food writer Romy Gill is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to share a few of her favorite recipes from her new cookbook "On the Himalayan Trail: Recipes and Stories from Kashmir to Ladakh." She ...

I fell in love with how lotus root is used in Kashmiri cooking and this preparation in particular stood out. It is a popular street food in the region and I love how satisfying the crispy texture is.