Chinese tourists have helped drive up Australia's visitor expenditure figures, while the number of Chinese who visited Australia grew almost 20 percent to more than 1.1 million in 2016, according to figures released by the federal government last Wednesday.
As more and more Chinese are turning to Ukraine thanks to the eased visa policy introduced last year, the East European country is seizing opportunities to win the Chinese market, the largest outbound tourism market around the world. The number of Chinese visitors to Ukraine rose to a 10-year-high in 2016 thanks to the liberalization of the visa regime, under which Chinese tourists can obtain a visa on arrival in two Ukrainian airports - in the capital city of Kiev and in the southern Black Sea resort of Odessa.
From hotels with segregated swimming pools to jelly made from seaweed instead of pig bones, Buddhist Thailand is chasing halal gold as it welcomes Muslim visitors and touts its wares to the Islamic world.
With rich traditional cultures and unspoiled landscapes, Con Dao in Vietnam's southern Ba Ria Vung Tau province is one of 12 crowd-free sea paradises in Asia, US Cable News Network (CNN) has recently stated.
Hipsters who frequent the bustling Gongti area for food and wine have a new place to visit, the recently opened Mojo, which claims to be the first international gastrolounge in Beijing.
When I was 5 my mother took me to a painting class at a nearby "cultural palace" - a three-storey building made up of a ground-floor movie theater and many rooms open to children during the school holidays. There I received my first art message, not in my own class, but the one next-door.
"Held high up against the sun, the violet bead of grape melts into a purple sea". Guan Yanfei wrote the lines when she was 12, for the thick album of paintings published in memory of art, in the way she saw it, as her first love.
Gao Peng, a curator, says the most difficult yet moving embrace he has ever seen took place between a man and his daughter in the gallery of Today Art Museum in Beijing, where Gao has been director for the past four years.
Best Bites of Beijing is published on Fridays and covers the latest happenings in the capital's dining scene.
Ten of the British Library's most iconic treasures will be loaned to China for the first time as part of a cultural exchange program between Britain's national Library and partner institutions in China, the library said Thursday.
A heroine from the 1961 revolutionary novel Red Crag has been brought to life on the small screen in a new TV series.
The China Sleep Research Society and the DeRucci Beddings Company Limited recently released a report on the sleep habits of Chinese youth.
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