Bryan Pirolli

New waves of Champagne, like biodynamic and organic, are making slow progress in the region. The story is for Iberia Airlines's luxury magazine, Excelente.

Trying to transfer money out of China is like being repeatedly punched in the gut by banking. Or at least it did for me as the additional fees and restrictions piled up while trying to pay my foreign credit card debt from China. I didn’t like it. Not one bit.
Fortunately, there is a solution, called Swapsy, and no, I don’t work for them. I am just the company’s biggest fan at the moment.

Some cyclists wear simple face masks, while one clever local looked like she was prepared to weld metal as she zipped down the tree-lined streets of the former French Concession. Pollen wafted heavy in the wind, but it takes more than a little allergen to stop Shanghai's cyclists from biking around town, especially on a clear spring afternoon. My eyes itched, but I pedaled my blue and white Hellobike through Shanghai, an eastern metropolis of China, the former "bicycle kingdom."

‍Painful exchange fees may be a thing of the past for anyone looking to transfer money in or out of China. Microfinance startup Swapsy is disrupting the banking system by making it easier to trade yuan for foreign currencies cheaply and, more importantly, legally.
While a leader with mobile payment systems like WeChat and using QR codes on smartphones, China has yet to produce a cost-effective way to transfer money abroad. China limits how much money both Chinese nationals and foreigner...

Special guest Bryan Pirolli discusses the fire at Notre Dame in Paris on CGTN's Global Watch, live from China.

The spire and roof collapsed after a major fire engulfed one of France's most famous landmarks in Paris, the medieval Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Join CGTN's Bryan Pirolli for the latest updates.

The 2019 International Horticulture Exhibition will run from April 29 to October 7. With only 30 days until the expo kicks off, major pavilions in Yanqing on the city's northern outskirts are already in full swing. CGTN's Liu Yang and Bryan Pirolli are there for a preview of the event, and elsewhere, Wu Lei is at the Guo Zhuang Garden in Hangzhou and Zhao Wenjing is at the Daguantang penjing park in Beijing.

It wasn't immediately clear why this burger restaurant in Beijing was special. Then Danny, the Airbnb host, explained a 1,000-year-old legend of how donkey meat became popular as beasts of burden were captured during a salt smuggling affair. The burger arrived at the table, fried green peppers mixed with actual donkey meat, served on a shao bing, a flaky bread.

With news of Laitai Flower Market set to close indefinitely for renovations from Apr 30 onwards (in Chinese), we take a moment to experience the market through a new arrival's eyes and relive the struggles we've all navigated at one point or another.
I like to have eucalyptus in my home. I’m not Australian, but the fragrance is clean, soothing, and I just like it. I thought it would be cheap in Beijng. We’re close to Australia, after all, right? No? Anyway, a recent trip to a flower market le...

Speakers like travel guru Rick Steves and Wild author Cheryl Strayed are among this weekend's invitees at San Francisco's Travel and Adventure Show. During the two-day event, some tourism agencies are paying special attention to attract more American tourists to China.

PARIS -- A new take on data servers seeks to offer inexpensive heat and computing to Parisians.

As dozens of adults from around the globe sipped Coronas in a Sanlitun bar, pretending to know the lyrics to some Spanish pop song, I looked around, a bit baffled, asking myself what I was doing there on my first weekend out in Beijing. I had just arrived, but it didn’t even feel like we were in China. So was this what it was like to be an expat? After living out of my own country for ten years, as an American in France, I never really knew.
Being an “expat” is a loaded concept, wrapped up in...

I was running the marathon in Lyon and my partner was coming with me. While researching Airbnb options, I messaged a host, telling her that I was coming with a friend — in French, it was clear that it was a male.
She wrote back, innocently enough, “The apartment only has one bed...”
I didn’t read too much into it, but I wasn’t sure how to respond, so I simply said, “Well after the marathon, I’ll be so tired I could sleep on the floor.”
I failed.
All I needed to say was that we were a couple, ...