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Chinese sci-fi author explores galaxies beyond printed words

[2016-09-17 09:08]

The 2015 Hugo Award-winner, who lives in Yangquan, North China's Shanxi province, says he is looking to build a franchise of his works. A film adapted from the first book of the 53-year old's Three Body trilogy will likely be released in 2017. The interview has been translated from Chinese

Lost in folds

[2016-09-16 09:43]

Qin Kun is hungry but he refrains from using his hand to pick a morsel of sushi. He does use his hands, however, for judging and feeling the paper that he shapes into intricate representations of animals and insects.

Japanese journalist focuses on wartime atrocities of Japan

[2016-09-16 09:43]

Takuya Kobayashi, Beijing bureau chief of the Japanese Communist Party's official newspaper Shimbun Akahata, has paid several visits to the same Chinese county to report on a slaughter more than 70 years ago by the Japanese imperial army.

Chef transforms skill into luck

[2016-09-15 08:16]

Cookery teacher and veteran chef Zhang Hui attributes his career success to luck, but behind his modesty are hard-trained skills and dedication to details.

Hair today, art tomorrow for barber

[2016-09-15 08:16]

A hair stylist in northeastern China has found a novel way of using all that hair-by making art.

Grandfather clocks up miles after developing global 'travel addiction'

[2016-09-15 08:16]

Age has proven no barrier to Yi Jiufan's wandering ways.

Cowboys long riding horses straight out of Compton

[2016-09-14 08:37]

Long before NWA put the place on the map as the birthplace of gangsta rap and its streets echoed with the sounds of drive-by gunfire, Compton was a cowboy town. And it still is.

3D printing used to aid Caribbean coral

[2016-09-14 08:37]

Vast coral reefs surrounding this island are considered by many experts to be the healthiest and best-protected in the Caribbean, and that makes Bonaire an ideal spot to test whether 3D printing technology can help preserve these vital marine habitats around the world.

Researchers find 2nd British explorer ship

[2016-09-14 08:37]

The second of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic nearly 170 years ago during a storied expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage has been found.

Oxford English Dictionary gains 'splendiferous' words

[2016-09-14 08:37]

You know, some yogalates could tackle those splendiferous moobs. Confused? Then turn to the Oxford English Dictionary which has included the words among more than 1,000 revisions and updates for its latest update.

Toronto festival looks at figures in US politics

[2016-09-14 08:37]

With global attention trained on the looming US election, the Toronto film festival looked back this week at American political figures Jacqueline Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and a young Barack Obama.

Terror investigators grapple with Telegram app

[2016-09-14 08:37]

Smartphone app Telegram, favored by the Islamic State group thanks to the encrypted messaging it offers, is proving a headache for French anti-terror investigators.

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