HONG KONG－Reading the popup message on his cellphone, stating that Hong Kong had recorded a daily new high of 140 COVID-19 cases, Joseph Chan was astonished and alarmed. It was the evening of Jan 23, a week before the Chinese Lunar New Year.
When pianist Tian Jiaxin was invited to perform at the annual TV show by China Central Television to celebrate Lantern Festival, which was broadcast on Feb 15, she didn't arrange a conventional music piece.
SHIJIAZHUANG－The first group of trainees from Laos and Cambodia at a Chinese acrobatic art school has graduated from the institution's online training program after in-person exchanges were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Millions of Chinese children are estimated to have watched the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics broadcast as an unforgettable memory during their winter vacation.
ATHENS－A recently opened exhibition of 18 paintings by Greek artist Vassilis Perros takes visitors to a gallery in central Athens on a journey from darkness and depression to hope and light.
SHANGHAI－China saw a robust recovery in its tourism sector during the Spring Festival holiday, as both urban and rural residents found new destinations for their travels.
The spirit of providing timely help to those in need is manifested in the Chinese idiom xue zhong song tan, which literally means "to send charcoal in snowy weather".
Earlier last month, I attended a fascinating talk about the disappearing sounds of the hutong, auditory artifacts like the song of candied hawthorn vendors, the jingle of camel coal trains, the blind fortune-teller and his one-handed tongdian gong, and the ethereal, theremin-like sound of the pigeon whistle.
ATHENS－A feature film co-produced by Greece and China, A Day in the Life of a Teddy Bear, premiered in Greek theaters last week.
Researchers have discovered that, over the past 70 years cetacean (aquatic) strandings on beaches occurred more frequently in spring.
NANCHANG/MOSCOW－Trofimova Iuliia could not help humming the Russian song Cranes Flock when she saw Siberian white cranes dancing less than 20 meters away by Poyang, China's largest freshwater lake.
Half a century after Chinese-American writer Nieh Hua-ling's monograph Shen Ts'ung-wen was published in the United States, a Chinese version has finally been released domestically.
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