Shanghai Disney Resort will open in the spring of next year. Disney's Chief Executive Robert Iger says major construction work will be completed by the end of this year. The park was initially scheduled to open later this year, but a ...
Rebranding on March 4th as Hotel Jen Upper East Beijing, Traders Hotel Upper East Beijing marks the first property in mainland China to adopt the new Hotel Jen brand by Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd. Catering to a new ...
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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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Buyers of ancient Chinese art will reappear in Sotheby's salesroom in Hong Kong next month. The last time Sotheby's auctioned classical ink art in the city was some 15 years ago. More than 50 lots of ink paintings and works of ...
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British rock band Muse is currently on their first-ever tour in China. On Saturday night, they made their mainland debut at Beijing's Mastercard Centre. Famous for their highly conceptualized albums, innovative instrumentation, and ...
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The 15th World Congress of Arrhythmias was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19, with cardiologists talking about their experiences at more than 300 seminars of the event, which was hosted on the Chinese mainland for the first time since it ...
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Tom Cruise's stunts and news of some Chinese investment are drawing people to Mission: Impossible-Rouge Nation. Xu Fan interviews director Christopher McQuarrie. Ethan Hunt looks unbeatable in Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation. Tom ...
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More than 1.57 million fans on the Chinese mainland watched the live streaming of a recent concert as eight young women from Girls' Generation, in thigh-high leather boots, black denim shorts and plaid shirts, sang and danced to the music ...
The 25th National Book Expo was held from Sep 25 to 27 in Taiyuan, Shanxi province by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the provincial government, aiming to promote nationwide reading and build a ...
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An upcoming film could be of interest to both fans of Taiwan rock band Mayday and sports enthusiasts. Second Chance stars Pan Xiaoting, the first Chinese to win the Women's Professional Billiard Association's Tour Championship of 2007, ...
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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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The new Chinese box office record breaker Lost in Hong Kong impressed the market by making nearly 800 million RMB ($125.68 million) within just four days since its release on September 25. The film earned more than 200 million RMB ($31.4 ...
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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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Sixty-five years after the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), an upcoming TV series pays homage to the martyrs and veterans of that conflict. The 38th Parallel, a 40-episode drama named after the ...
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With many South Korean filmmakers moving to neighboring China for a wider and more lucrative market, Kim Ki-duk has become the latest big name to join the flock. Kim, 55, recently announced in Beijing that his first Mandarin movie, Who Is ...
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