The celebration, hosted by the Australia China Friendship Society (ACFS) Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Branch Inc, was believed to be one of the biggest outdoor events in the city ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 25th Mois de la Francophonie will kick off on March 1, and run through the end of the month. With the theme of "to tell", a series of over 50 French events will take place in 20 cities around China, inviting people to tell their French stories, and also to listen and communicate with other people.
A store in Fiji celebrates the Chinese Lantern Festival on Feb 25, 2021. Jack's is a chain store in Suva, capital city of Fiji. It mainly sells tourist items, with the Chinese one of the main customers.
Spending his weeklong Spring Festival holiday visiting relatives, setting off firecrackers, eating local specialties and lazing in the warm sunshine, Balthazar Boyer was able to feel a festive ambience in Wuhan.
The first Confucius Institute in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG) was inaugurated in the country's second largest city of Lae on Saturday.
Pandas live only on a few high and damp mountains in Southwest China, where they feast mainly on bamboo leaves and shoots. They bear loads of symbolic meaning in the Chinese culture and pretty much everyone in the world agrees that they are adorably cute.
With collaboration among embassies of other French-speaking countries in China, the 25th Francophonie has been launched around the theme of "raconter" – a verb describing the need for knowledge and discovery.
Modern and contemporary Indonesian art have been heatedly discussed in international art circles for years. Meanders in the Tropics, an ongoing exhibition at Tsinghua University Art Museum until July 18, addresses this intensive interest in the art of 20th century Indonesia.
Before the Chinese Lunar New Year, Iraqi lover of Chinese culture Mohammed Talib endured the hardships of traveling from his hometown in southern Iraq to the capital Baghdad to celebrate Spring Festival with his Chinese friends.
With a Chinese calligraphy brush in hand, two Pakistani students, Amar Razzaq and Waseem Abbas, wrote down the Chinese character fu.
The annual Qinhuai lanterns fair, or Nanjing lanterns fair, was virtually showcased in Bangkok on Feb 26. The Chinese Cultural Center in Bangkok organized the show on its website and social media platforms.
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered many aspects of daily life in Singapore, and this year's celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year was no exception.