To tackle challenges in protecting the Great Wall of the ancient Qi state, the oldest existing Great Wall in China, the legislature in Shandong province has passed a regulation protecting the structure that will take effect on Jan 1.
On the first day of October, Nelson, a city in New Zealand, saw its first “China Day”.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, the Japanese branch of the Chinese Literature Readers' Club was launched at the end of September at the China Cultural Center in Tokyo.
An Egyptian girl plays music on oud, an ancient Arabic musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House in a historical area of Cairo. The piece she is playing is the Chinese folk song Molihua (Jasmine Flower), which is usually played on pipa, a traditional Chinese instrument.
With lion dances, Chinese kung fu, Chinese crosstalk, songs and dances, and award-winning speeches, students from across New Zealand showcased their Chinese language proficiency in the annual "Chinese Bridge" event.
CAIRO — A ceremony was held at the Confucius Institute of Cairo University recently to launch a pilot program for teaching Chinese in Egyptian middle schools and a training program for Egyptian teachers.
ADDIS ABABA — The increasing number of consumers and the growing popularity of Ethiopia's coffee among Chinese people is propelling Ethiopia's coffee export market, officials and coffee exporters say.
There was a brief moment when Sheng Jian found himself questioning his decision to join the Chinese medical team in Lesotho.
In 1939 Miriam Brookfield's life in Germany took an unexpected turn. The 14-year-old's father was arrested by Nazi authorities, and he was told he would be released only if he presented emigration documents proving he and his family were leaving the country.
The China Cultural Center in Cairo on Tuesday donated books and audio-visual products to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, a major library in the city of Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.
More than 200 pieces of classic calligraphy by artists in China and South Korea are now on show at an exhibition in Beijing.
To welcome the annual New Zealand Chinese Language Week from Sept 25 to Oct 1, the China Cultural Center in Wellington gave a lesson on Chinese hip-hop music to students at Clyde Quay School on Sept 23.