Thousands of locals and Chinese people attended the 2017 Happy Chinese New Year event in Hungary, a temple fair in Budapest on Jan 21.
Ukrainian Zvenyhorodskyi Pavlo says he has learned two things in his journey to learn Chinese. "First, is to adjust your attitude, and second, to respect and embrace the culture. Hotpot, for instance, could be a good start."
Instead of feeling sad about the losing Spring Festival traditions, I would rather look on the bright side of this social transition.
Volunteer opportunities entice travel-minded students to reach out to the world, Zhang Zefeng reports.
Meitu, a Chinese photo-editing app, has suddenly become popular in the West with its feature of turning headshots into cartoons.
A Chinese New Year concert was held in Vienna, Austria, on Jan 15, marking the start of 2017 Happy Chinese New Year celebrations in the country.
China will usher in the lunar New Year on Jan 28. Traditionally, the holiday is observed in China, Vietnam and some other Asian countries. Now the 400-year-old festival is going global.
A Chinese opera gala was held in Toronto to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. Consul-general Xue Bing from the Consulate General of China in Toronto and about 600 government officials and representatives from China and Canada attended the gala on Jan 15.
The Year of the Rooster gets a wake-up call from "Kung Fu Panda" when Po and Tigress make their first-ever appearance at the Universal Studio Hollywood's annual Lunar New Year celebration, from this Saturday to Feb 5.
Chinese pianist Lang Lang, has played to sold-out venues around the world, performed with world-renowned orchestras, and has performed at the Beijing Olympic Games and the Grammy Awards.
Shortly after I finished last week's X-Ray column, titled The (r)evolution of an internet celebrity, it became instantly outdated. The twists have come on so inexorably that it may even turn into a serial melodrama.
As Chinese Lunar New Year draws near, a busy yet happy period of grabbing red packets on smart phones is coming too. The 2015 Spring Festival marked the coming of digital red packets on WeChat.