A couple's scandalous behavior - carving their names on a 300-year-old vat at the Palace Museum - incited criticism among netizens, while staff at the Palace Museum said they've reported the case to the police. This kind of incident ...
Tags: Foreign Countries, Punish, Relic Vandals
"This year's Beijing Fringe Festival is more diverse and more international," said Meng Jinghui, mastermind behind the event, now in its eighth year. The festival, which runs until Sept 26 in six theatres and art spaces in Beijing, will ...
As part of festivities marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Palace Museum in Beijing, a "Long Live Celebration" show will be staged. Many rarely- or never-before-seen national treasures will be displayed and Riverside Scene ...
Tags: Palace Museum, Rare Treasures
After the fierce competition of athletes, the 2015 China Gongga 100km International Mountain Trail Challenge and Walking Festival came to its successful close on the afternoon of August 23. Chinese athletes Zhang Wen and Yun Yanqiao won ...
Tags: outdoor sports, Walking Festival
World-renowned luxury department store, Harrods has extended its relationship with one of the leading flooring designers SYLKA, by incorporating the firm’s luxurious carpets into more of its boutiques. For the department store’s ...
When a middle-aged imaginative trader who has just been released from prison and a younger photographer who has a strong empathy for others meet in an empty subway, what do we expect? Probably nothing, some would say. Indeed, we have been ...
China may submit Wolf Totem, a co-production between China and France, as its 2016 Academy Awards best foreign language film entry after it was announced that another contender lost the bid late Tuesday. The producers of Mountains May ...
Tags: Wolf Totem, film, Oscars
Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
Tags: Xinjiang Muslims, Corban Festival
As Cining Gong in the Forbidden City is set to be unveiled to the public, some of those behind its painstaking restoration process share their experiences. Wang Kaihao reports. It is a closed part of the Palace Museum, also known as the ...
Tags: Forbidden City, restoration, traditional Chinese construction
New Defense Ministry spokesman highlights importance of 'utmost sincerity' in key role After his successful debut as spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, Wu Qian was both focused and modest: "I expect to undertake this job ...
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 ...
UK-based meat company BEEfit has launched a new range of beef biltong in the dried beef snack category. BEEfit biltong is a high protein, spiced, sliced and dried product which caters to customers who are on the move. The product ...
Tags: High-Protein Beef, Low-Fat Beef
Oct 10 marked the 90th anniversary of the Beijing Palace Museum's founding. Besides opening four new sections to tourists this month - mainly the Cining Gong, the Cining Gong garden and the Shoukang Gong - the museum is holding a series of ...
Tags: Palace Museum, 90th Anniversary, Exhibitions
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 ...
The Wilkins Group is investing over $3m into a brand new state of the art factory on the island of Sri Lanka. The Wilkins Group bought the land overseas back in 2013, and work began on the two-acre site at the back end of last year, with ...
Tags: Wilkins Group, LEED certification