More Chinese travelers are coming to Australia and seeking unique, personalized experiences, according to an authority with Tourism Australia.
An international music festival with performers from Belt and Road countries kicked off in Shenzhen, southern Guangdong province, on Saturday night, with the aim of strengthening cultural exchanges and deepening friendship between the people.
In ancient times, the Qingming Festival prompted poets to write poems about their grief regarding the lingering cold in spring and emotional moments while mourning the deceased. Here are some famous lines from poems in the Tang and Song Dynasties (618 -1279).
Ruins of city walls have been discovered in Northwest China's Lop Nor Desert, the site of the former capital of Loulan, a prosperous settlement built about 2,000 years ago to serve passing traders traveling the Silk Road.
The Hong Kong Rugby Sevens are more than one of Hong Kong's favorite sporting events. The competition draws visitors from all over Asia, and keeps fans who can't make the trip glued to TVs at home and in popular bars and restaurants.
Sun Yat-sen and his wife dined here. So did the Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. Chairman Mao hosted visiting heads of state and welcomed Chinese writers, and Premier Zhou Enlai ate and drank with US envoy Henry Kissinger.
Gerelchimeg Blackcrane is more than 1.9 meters tall and when he shows up at public events, he wears Mongolian gowns.
Zhou Meisen, a sharp dresser and an unconventional artist, once had many influential contacts in positions of power. Some of them are still in power. Some are in prison.
Though Beijing's Waldorf Astoria is a fairly new kid on the capital block, it too claims a century of tradition from its famous New York forbear.
I confess I was a bit taken aback to hear that Temple Restaurant Beijing, often lauded as the best restaurant in the capital, was abandoning the more laid-back format of its elegant spinoff, TRB-Bites.
Changing natural scenery has always been a favor of landscape painters, whatever techniques and methods they employ.
South Australian researchers have thrown into doubt reported benefits of giving preterm babies omega-3 supplements, after studies found no noticeable difference in the health of premature infants after being given the fatty acids.