An all-woman jury on Monday awarded France's prestigious Femina Prize to Haiti's Yanick Lahens and Israeli author and suicide-attack survivor Zeruya Shalev for their family-based epics.
China Braille Library, the country's only such specialist facility, is working alongside other agencies to take more titles to blind readers. Xing Yi reports.
Chinese cities and towns are dotted with massage parlors, many of which are managed entirely by blind people. Of the estimated 17 million visually impaired Chinese, hundreds of thousands are said to serve as blind masseurs across the country, not just in parlors but medical facilities as well.
It feels like a fantasy to be inside a large hall, filled with the melody of Auld Lang Syne being played on a set of stone percussion musical instruments that date back to at least 2,000 years ago.
After years of cashing in on growing tourism, China's largest Miao ethnic minority village is urgently trying to retain its cultural allure in the face of a commercial boom.
Over 3,000 Chinese audiences had the chance to enjoy high-quality art for free as BMW brought a program called Open for All to the country.
In his first solo show in China, British multimedia artist Shezad Dawood presents 'alien greetings' on textiles. Deng Zhangyu reports.
A retrospective art exhibition, Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, opened at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday, displaying 178 paintings by some 100 artists.
A new phone app is allowing children the chance to experience life as a Qing Dynasty ruler. It's part of a trend to make history more inviting to the younger generation, Wang Kaihao reports.
The newest installment of blockbuster video game Call of Duty hits the streets on Tuesday, pitting soldiers of the future against a Machiavellian villain played by actor Kevin Spacey.
At 52, A Benzhi can still clearly recall images of his father getting up before sunrise to work on the farm and returning home after sunset every day over four decades ago.
Belle is singing of her mixed feelings for the Beast - in Fujian dialect for the first time.
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