Qiandongnan's Xijiang village, the country's largest ethnic Miao community. WANG KAIHAO/CHINA DAILY It is like taking a walk back in time. Women from the Dong ethnic group in the 800-year-old Huanggang village are dyeing shiny traditional ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has expanded its recall of chia seed powder, which it issued in November, to include more products due to suspected Salmonella contamination. The latest update from CFIA states that Everspring ...
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New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has issued a statement warning of a potential Hepatitis A risk associated with imported frozen berries. The warning comes after four diagnoses of Hepatitis A thought to be linked ...
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A new toolkit for designers of furniture for the home and specialist furniture for elderly and bariatric users is set to be launched in January. Officially launching during the January Furniture Show - rescheduled from September -the ...
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Africa-focused multinational consumer goods company Vasari Global along with UK-based asset management firm Duet Group, and the TIRET Group, which is an Ethiopian endowment fund, has unveiled an advanced brewery plant at Debre Birhan, which ...
Niubi Village ensconces among mountains in the Mount Danxia hinterland. [File photo] Scenery along the world's longest high-speed railway from Beijing, on the vast North China Plain, southward to Guangzhou, over the Yellow River and ...
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Shooting for A Pension Plan, a movie based on Chinese-American author Ha Jin's story of the same name, began in northern Beijing on Tuesday. Filming for the movie is scheduled to be completed in late October. The film, based on the ...
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For city dwellers, Mount Emei's scenic area (in southwest China’s Sichuan province) is a place to escape the heat of summer. For the elderly, it's a place for healthy tour. For couples, it's a perfectly romantic destination. A ...
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On the morning of Sept 8, a student in Anhui province was bicycling outside her college campus when she spotted an old lady down on the ground, screaming. She stopped to help. The "granny", as women in their senior years are often ...
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Most of them dropped out of high school because of poverty. They were farmers before changing, ahem, their profession. They have appeared on TV and performed at various galas. To top it all, they have also performed on CCTV's Spring ...
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Henry Chang-Yu Lee, the forensic scientist, had his own number tag (2056) at the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. But whenever his colleagues phoned for him, they asked for "007". In his career of more than 50 years, the ...
While the exhibits at Nanchang Porcelain Painting Museum in suburban Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi province may impress each visitor with their elegance, they are also likely to evoke childhood memories among many visitors, ...
It's around 8 pm. The streets are quiet. For most of Heze, a city in East China's Shandong province, which has a population of around 8 million and is known as the main center for the cultivation of the national flower peony, it is the end ...
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With a history spanning more than two centuries, Peking Opera is regarded as the jewel in the crown of Chinese culture. Born in Beijing in the mid-19th century, it absorbed facets of a variety of performing arts from different provinces ...
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The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was ...