Snow, icy rain and fog caused flight delays and highway closures in many parts of China on Tuesday, the last day of the weeklong Lunar New Year celebration, when millions of travelers head back to school or work.
The 87th Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles Sunday evening local time, took a new twist when a Chinese star failed to make an appearance.
Liangjiahe, a village in Shaanxi province where President Xi Jinping spent seven years as a rural laborer, became a popular Spring Festival tourist destination after Xi and first lady Peng Liyuan paid a visit ahead of this year's holiday.
When Mark Levine, an English-language instructor at Beijing's Minzu University of China, was first invited to attend a Chinese colleague's wedding in Jiangsu province in 2006, his second year in China, the California native was ready to present a small decorative gift for the new couple as he used to do in the United States.
The 2015 Lunar New Year has fully embraced mobile technology, with instant messaging platforms such as Tencent's multimillion-user app WeChat attracting most of the attention.
Just a short hop from the Indonesian holiday hotspot of Bali, a Saudi tourist and his family listen to the call to prayer as the sun goes down on Lombok, the self-styled "island of 1,000 mosques".
The British economist Thomas Robert Malthus could not have expected his book An Essay on the Principle of Population published in 1798 would become a Bible for the family planning authority in China more than 200 years later.
The approach of Spring Festival could be easily detected in overseas Chinatowns shortly after the clock rang in 2015.
Attractive young women will no longer adorn cars at the Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in April, organizers said on Tuesday.
Famed and infamous heiress Patty Hearst was back in the news on Monday after a dog she co-owns won its group at the Westminster Kennel Club show.
Japanese investment in China surged in January after months of decline last year.
The show went on at the world's most-celebrated Carnival parades, despite a tropical deluge that soaked thousands of feather-clad dancers, wildly costumed musicians and masses of spectators at Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome.
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