The National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Sunday issued a blue alert for dusty weather that will choke northwest China. The NMC forecasted that a strong cold front will sweep northwest China on Monday, bringing strong wind and dusty ...
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China's Belt and Road initiatives are not its "solo," but a "symphony" of all relevant parties, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday. The vision of the initiatives is common development, and the goal is win-win progress through ...
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Light, technology and design will converge to reveal new solutions, new knowledge and new discoveries at LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) 2016. The world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and ...
After 11 days of buzz and excitement, the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) came to a conclusion Sunday, with the film Room winning the top honor and Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig taking the Platform prize from an international ...
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"Wind is raging. Horses are whinnying. The Yellow River is roaring." The lyrics of The Yellow River Cantata boosted the fighting spirit of the Chinese when facing the Japanese during wartime and influenced later generations, too. Now, a ...
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The 25th National Book Expo came to a close Sunday in Taiyuan, capital of West China's Shanxi province. During the three-day Expo, 250,000 books were on display to the public, and almost 200 reading activities were held. Details of the ...
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More than 2,000 people played the Chinese lute, or "pipa", together in Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sunday night, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest lute ensemble. The group of 2015 people, who ...
More than 30 poets from China and abroad, including Germany, France, Iran and the United States, gathered at Beijing's China Millennium Monument on Sunday to celebrate the annual Mid-autumn festival and recite their works about the moon at ...
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Following the success of Secret Garden, the best-selling coloring book for adults, coloring books and products sales have been booming in China. Even The Assassin Nie Yinniang, a film screened in late August, published a coloring album as a ...
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Thailand through the Dragon's Brushes, an exhibition of the works of 11 leading Chinese artists, opened in Bangkok on Friday as part of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand. The ...
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The National Day week has provided rich pickings for local filmmakers with homegrown movies overcoming competition from Hollywood, Xu Fan reports. The challenge from Hollywood has been a longtime concern for Chinese filmmakers. But the ...
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"Lost in Hong Kong," a Chinese comedy, has raked in 1.33 billion yuan ($209.5 million) by Sunday, becoming the top-grossing 2D domestic film of all time on the Chinese mainland. The film, released on Sept 25, is one sequel to "Lost in ...
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Tensions between the two Asian giants, China and Japan, are running high after the Japanese government tried to block China's application to UNESCO to list documents relating to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and "comfort women", or the 200, 000 ...
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 ...
Renowned classical musicians joined in for the Camerata Music Festival on Sunday at the International School of Beijing. Founded in the expat community in Beijing's Shunyi district, the festival aimed to provide classical live music and ...
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