Europe's oldest Chinatown is to stage its biggest-ever Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations centering around the myth of a bird trying to fill in the ocean, organizers announced Monday. Liverpool's Chinatown will celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan 28, with spectacular projections telling the story of Jingwei and the Ocean.
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just concluded its first tour in China, from late December in Guangzhou, Changsha, Shanghai to Beijing on Jan 5. The orchestra, which is composed of around 85musicians, performed Elgar's Enigma Variations as well as music of Tchaikovsky, Pablo de Sarasate and Dvorak under the baton of conductor Vassily Sinaisky.
The sun has barely stretched above the horizon on a late-December morning as a dozen students gather around yoga mats stretched across the floor of a Beijing university's gymnasium.
Another wave of fresh graduates will finish their college life and step into society as a new year is unfolding.
The College English Tests, which are known as CET 4 and CET 6, will not be canceled but could morph into a new testing and rating system, according to a professor involved in the process.
For Chen Zihong, winning a silver medal at the Dongrun-Yau Science Award in 2015 was a special experience. Chen, a native of Shanghai, developed an interest in mathematics as a child. He taught himself high school mathematics when he was in junior middle school, and finished college mathematics courses when he was in high school.
The Broadway Classroom program, in which Broadway performers and American musical theater arts professionals provide training to youngsters, is making its international debut in China.
A prestigious Belgian university is launching a series of online campaigns in 2017 to attract more Chinese students, a senior staff member from the university told Xinhua.
For Xiao Tong, a 25-year-old Beijing-based IT office worker, his hobby is singing. He often goes to karaoke outlets and sings at home as a way to entertain himself and to relax.
Life has been busy for the stars of Sherlock since the series premiered in 2010, with UK TV producers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss applying new London style and contemporary quirks to Arthur Conan Doyle's famous consulting detective. Its fourth season - there have been breaks - premiered on New Year's Day.
Words of hard-earned wisdom from Ed Sheeran: "The club isn't the best place to find a lover."
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