Following the example of The Precious Collection of the Stone Moat, a special gallery featuring traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting in the Palace Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will hold a world-class ...
Tags: Chinese Painting Exhibition, Palace Museum, pictorial art
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 ...
Tags: Peking Opera, Zhang Shu, Broadway
The Phantom of the Opera, a hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, staged its first show in Guangzhou city in Guangdong province on Sept 22. The southern Chinese city is the second location on the mainland, after Shanghai, to host the show ...
Tags: Phantom, musicals, commercial value
Famed pianist Zhu Xiaomei gives a recital during the Beijing Music Festival and she plays one of Bach's major works, Goldberg Variations. An annual musical event not to be missed took place at Wangfujing Church on Oct 13. Since 2006, the ...
Tags: Bank, Arts Sponsorship, music activities
Global market research company Mintel has released its food and drink trend predictions for 2016. From food alternatives going mainstream to matching DNA and diets, consumers can expect many innovations in product development and ...
Tags: Food Trends, Drink Trends
Traders of mined diamonds are divided over how to best respond to the growth of their laboratory-grown counterparts. Last week, India’s Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) became the second exchange to ban trading of man-made diamonds, ...
Britain's Prince William meets retired Chinese basketball player Yao Ming and explorer Bear Grylls before delivering a speech on the illegal wildlife trade for China Central Television, at King's College, in London, on Monday. STUART C. ...
Tags: Yao Ming, Prince William, illegal animal products, Ivory Trade
MEGA SHOW Part 2 is now in its 12th year and is the final sourcing opportunity in Hong Kong every October with a further 750 exhibitors from over 14 countries .FOUR merchandise categories are on show in this well-edited and ...
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General Motors (GM) has announced its plan to add a second shift at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant in the US, creating 1,200 new jobs. The addition of second shift comes as the company plans to meet the expected market demand for the ...
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American car manufacturer General Motors (GM) has selected LG Electronics as its partner in developing the next generation Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle (EV) at its Orion township, Michigan, US. As per the partnership, LG will provide ...
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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, when attending the 25th China-U.S. Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade in Chicago, the United States, jointly attended the Sino-U.S. Tourism Cooperation Forum with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker ...
Against the complex and changeable situation in Eurasia in 2014, China’s Ministry of Commerce braved challenges and firmly seized the opportunity to make breakthrough. China-Russia bilateral trade rose in spite of the unfavorable ...
Tags: Silk Road Economic Belt initiative, trade and economic cooperation
The first meeting of the China-Indonesia High-Level Economic Dialogue was held in Beijing on January 26. Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economy Sofyan Djalil co-chaired the meeting, and the two ...
On January 15, 2015, the journal Qiushi published a signed article by Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, titled “Grasp the World Situation and Promote the Level of Opening—Understanding of Studying and Implementing Important ...
A seminar on the 20th anniversary of cooperation between China and the OECD was held in Beijing on the afternoon of March 19. Vice Premier Wang Yang attended the seminar and delivered a keynote speech. Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng also ...
Tags: OECD, global economic