Twenty years ago, when composer Dai Yisheng, along with scriptwriter Zhang Yonghe and director Gu Wei, created Snuff Bottles, a Quju Opera work produced by Beijing Quju Opera Troupe, she didn't expect that the show would save Quju Opera, a ...
Tags: Snuff Bottles, Quju Opera
Latest stats are suggesting the Chinese box office may surpass the US as the world's largest by as early as 2018. Jim Rainey is a senior film reporter with US-based film industry publication Variety. He says the overseas markets have ...
Tags: Chinese box office, US-based film industry, Chinese Market
Craftsmen Li Shuanglu (left) and Wu Laishun (right) try to beat a piece of steel bar flat with a hammer in making crewel needles in Dayang township of Zezhou county, North China's Shanxi province, Sept 24, 2015. Pei Xiangnan, 66, is the ...
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has announced early sampling of a 400Gb/s high electro-optic bandwidth lithium niobate (LiNbO3) external modulator for designing ...
In hall B1 (booth 403) at Laser World of Photonics 2015 in Munich, Germany (22-25 June), II-VI Suwtech of Shanghai, China – a subsidiary of engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA ...
Tags: Laser diodes, Electronics
The NPD and BTHA kick off Toy Fair 2015 with news of a 4.4 per cent increase in toy sales for last year. The British toy market achieved a 4.4 per cent increase in 2014, reaching £3 billion at retail and enjoying its best result ...
Tags: toy market, toy sales, Toys
China is not only more capable of withstanding the impact of Hollywood, but is expanding its influence overseas, said a report on Tuesday. The report, by China's domestic film industry research firm Entgroup, said that some 29.6 billion ...
Tags: Film Market, China's Influence
The National Silk Board (NSB), an industry body that aims to tighten regulations and boost investor confidence in Cambodia’s silk industry, is set to open by next year, the Phnom Penh Post reported. Speaking at a workshop aimed at ...
Tags: Silk Board, raw silk producers, Textile
A street lighting initiative that was intended to reduce spending could cost Nottinghamshire Council £1.5 million, according to a new report. In 2011, the Conservative council decided to only fix faulty street lights, a regime known ...
Tags: Street Light, Lighting
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes analog semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications) has launched what is claimed to be the most integrated 10G ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Optical Module Chipset
Industrial additive manufacturing, usually called 3D printing, is predicted to be a highly disruptive force, together with robotics, within the global manufacturing industry, affecting all corners of the supply chain in all industries. In ...
Tags: 3D, Manufacturing, Electronics
DC Comics, Marvel, How To Train Your Dragon 2 and Adventure Time lines all looking to make Q4 one to remember for the dress-up firm. Rubie's is predicting its new light-up Frozen dresses will be one of its biggest hits this Christmas. ...
Tags: Frozen Dresses, Rubie, Toys
Sandra Niessen, a Netherlands-based anthropologist, has produced a film titled ‘Rangsa ni Tonun’, depicting the in-crisis Batak weaving tradition and the urgency to restore weaving tradition of the vibrant cloth. Batak ...
Tags: Batak Weaving, Tradition, Textile
Transformers: Robots in Disguise will debut on The Hub channel in spring next year. Hasbro is releasing a new animated series based on its popular shape-shifting robot franchise, Transformers: Robots in Disguise. The new series – ...
Tags: Toys, Transformers
The new range of trading cards will hit retailers on June 12th ahead of the release of Transformers: Age of Extinction. As Transformers: Age of Extinction readies to hit the big screen this July, Topps is joining the celebrations with its ...