Smile Asia Week will be celebrated at Ritz-Carlton hotels through May 10, with proceeds from a special cake going to support partners of Operation Smile for the second year running. The international medical charity provides treatment for children with cleft lips and palates. On the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Singapore, the RC pastry chefs will offer a Valhrona chocolate and banana cake (one pound, 288 yuan). Some hotels will offer related exhibitions and programs for kids. About 13,000 cakes were sold through the campaign last year, raising $400,000 for young smiles.
Do US audiences get Chinese jokes? Do they have to read a 1,600-year-old Chinese classic novel and learn about the Chinese Civil War (1945-49) to fully grasp the nuances of a Chinese play?
The International Women's Festival was held in Beijing on April 11 at the National Center for the Performing Arts.
For more than two decades, Chen Wei has devoted a lot of her time to Chinese opera.
It's a legendary love story of rocky romance literally set in stone.
It's perhaps the only place in China - maybe the world - where dinosaurs declare they're snapping shots of you while you squat over toilets.
In the early 1990s, TV viewers in China were captivated by A Native of Beijing in New York, a drama about a family of Chinese immigrants pursuing the American dream in the Big Apple.
As Chinese soccer gets ready for a major overhaul thanks to repeated urging from President Xi Jinping, a well-known fan of the sport, basketball star Stephon Marbury, has offered a suggestion to boost both sports - combine them.
Floyd Mayweather said on Wednesday his long-awaited showdown with Manny Pacquiao isn't a battle of good and evil as the two rivals went eyeball-to-eyeball at their final pre-fight press conference.
There are quite a lot of people who are able to play table tennis with disabilities but only a few make it to the high levels of the sport and even less compete against able-bodied world champions.
Rou Jia Mo, a Chinese street food dubbed "the world's first hamburger", has turned out to be the favorite dish of Chinese ping-pong players at the World Table Tennis Championships in Suzhou.
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