In about a week, the Lunar Year of the Horse will canter in, ushering in 15 days of festivities, celebration and much needed rest for China's huge migrant workforce.
The chocolate factory has come to Southwest China, but without eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Chocolate theme park World Chocolate Wonderland arrived in Chongqing on Dec 30 and will remain until March 31, offering a visual and sweet feast to locals and tourists. "I had so much fun today," 20-year-old Guo Xueyu says, adding that immersing herself in a sweet chocolate kingdom is one of her dreams come true.
Panda cub Bao Bao's public debut at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park over the Martin Luther King Jr Day weekend was a perfect start to Chinese Lunar New Year of the Horse celebrations.
If Hakka are permanent guests from North China, Meizhou in eastern Guangdong province is the perfect locale to showcase their hospitality, writes Raymond Zhou.
Hakka people often find excuses for the lack of presentation for their food, especially compared with their seafood-rich neighbors of Chaozhou and Shantou, where more attention is paid to how dishes are prepared and presented.
He was de-deified at the end of the "cultural revolution" (1966-76), but Mao Zedong continues to be worshipped in some remote parts of China. Wang Jiaquan and Li Huaiyan from Xinhua report.
A passion for classic video games brought two entrepreneurs together, and now a work of their own delivers both a look back and a taste of the future, Eric Jou reports.
When the Taiwan-born dancer and co-founder of Chinatown's Chen Dance Center H.T. Chen arrived in New York in the late 1970s, he spoke limited English.
Yang Dongmiao and her husband Jin Weidong are happy and excited - their dream of reproducing full-sized Dunhuang murals is going to come true. "We plan to open our caves to the public on Feb 25, after we finish the murals of the No 45 and No 220 grottoes of the Mogao Grottoes," Jin says. The couple is busy putting the final touches on the murals in their two "grottoes" located on a street that celebrates the heritage of the Silk Road in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province.
A Chinese family in New York learns more about its ancestral history in the process of preparing a museum exhibition.
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