Chinese director Jia Zhangke has revealed that his latest film Mountains may depart is to be submitted for this year's foreign-language category at the Academy Awards. The movie tells the story of a family that moves from China to ...
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Shooting for A Pension Plan, a movie based on Chinese-American author Ha Jin's story of the same name, began in northern Beijing on Tuesday. Filming for the movie is scheduled to be completed in late October. The film, based on the ...
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"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 ...
China will coordinate different economic indicators during the next five years to make development more balanced, inclusive and sustainable than before, a latest official document showed. To ensure the realization of a "moderately ...
Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
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A performer practices crying out his wares as a street vendor at Badachu Park on Feb 9. (Source: China Daily/ Li Jundong) Despite more and more young people turning their back on tradition, temple fairs remain a favorite event during ...
A full moon blazed in the sky, signifying the Lantern Festival across China. Particularly for this festival, lanterns break out of the typical round and red mold, taking on shapes limited only by the imagination. At Bejing's Olympic ...
In the midst of this digital age, it's all too easy to overlook the paper which is still deeply embedded into our daily lives. Yet there was a time when these simple sheets also represented massive technological breakthrough. The modern ...
Coca-Cola has launched a new $5.7m PET bottling line in Liberia which was formally commissioned by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has challenged Liberians to create the enabling environment for businesses investing in this country to ...
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Top 10 Orlando Trade Shows Orlando, Florida is consistently one of the largest trade show and exhibition cities in the country. Home to more than a dozen amusement parks, most notably Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, Orlando is ...
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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 ...
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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Government officials, publishers and library professionals in the US and China gathered on Monday in Seattle to launch a joint exhibit on Chinese braille publications. They also shared ideas on how the government and community could ...
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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 ...
The 2nd Silk Road International Arts Festival concluded on Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of West China's Shaanxi province. Artists and companies from 62 countries participated in the festival, almost double in number compared with last year. ...