The Mulam minority mainly inhabits in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. They called themselves "Ling" or "Jin". In the past, the Mulam people were polytheistic and had many festivals. Except for October and November, there are ...
Tags: Mulam minority, festival, "Yifan"Festival
An ancient Chinese legend tells of a man-eating predatory beast called Nian, extremely fierce, with a long head and sharp horn. Nian dwelled deep in the sea the whole year long, but on every Chinese New Year eve it would climb onto the ...
Tags: Chinese legend, Chinese New Year, Nian, Chinese New Year's Eve
Pixiu (also called Tianlu or Bixie) is one of the five auspicious animals of traditional Chinese culture (the other four are the dragon, phoenix, turtle and kylin). The Chinese people call it “fortune beast.” This lion-looking ...
Villagers of the Miao ethnic minority celebrate Miao's New Year in front of their houses built on the mountainside in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province. Their seclusion in the mountains helps the villagers sustain their traditional ...
Tags: Miao ethnic minority customs, Chinese tradition, Ethnic Group festival
South Africa - With a reputation of putting on superb musicals for the past 35 years, the Ligbron Academy of Technology for high school students in Ermelo outdid themselves with the production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For a ...
Tags: JSF Productions, Disney musical, lighting and sound, lighting fixtures
DeMarini,makers of the world's finest performance baseball,fastpitch and slowpitch bats,recognizes this and is introducing a full line of men's,women's and youth apparel designed to meet the needs of the insanely dedicated ball player.After ...
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Emirates has started rolling out in-flight Windows 8 tablets that enable cabin crew to access core customer relationship management(CRM)and human resources(HR)information to improve customer service. Kevin Griffiths,senior ...
Tags: Emirates, Windows 8 HP ElitePad 900, airline, Dubai
BT is deploying the Windows 8 operating system(OS)to 5,900 engineers in its Openreach division in one the largest roll-outs of the most recent Microsoft OS. Speaking at the Dubai launch event for Windows 8,Peter Scott,director of end user ...
Tags: BT, Windows 8 OS, Dubai, Panasonic Toughbook convertible
Macworld-The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad ,but the device itself won't.By now,we all know what an iPad looks like,and the fourth-generation iPad looks nearly identical to a third-generation ...
Tags: Ipad, Apple, iPad mini, MacBook Air
Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember authenticated users. If an attacker gains ...
Tags: Data Center, HTTPS, computer security, security research
Security firm Entrust has announced that it is withdrawing from a voluntary online security standards organisation that it co-founded and co-chaired for six years. The move follows the introduction of a mandatory Intellectual Property ...
Tags: SSL, CA/Browser Forum, Security firm, the IPR policy
The BBC Euro 2012 title sequence sees embroidered emblems from European team badges come to life in a world of material textures.The original brief was to create a highly stylised,graphical,and illustrative film that would hark back to the ...
Tags: BBC, Senior Designer, Team Badges, Beast
China-Before the PALM Exhibition taking place in Beijing,China,Adamson's newly appointed exclusive distributor Real Music Acoustic&Lighting Technology Co.Ltd.organized Adamson's biggest Chinese seminar to date.The afternoon saw the ballroom ...
Tags: Distributorship, Stage, Lighting, Music