Film academy president welcomes new members

BEVERLY HILLS, California - Jeanne Tripplehorn has been a professional actress for more than 25 years. But as a new member of the film academy, she's almost as giddy as her first day on set.

Program hosts 120 young Sinologists this year

Ana Jovanovic learned about China from books she read in high school in the 1990s in Serbia. During one summer break back then, she found the novel Imperial Woman by the celebrated late author Pearl S. Buck.

Young At Art

One of them is launching a major international art fair - touted as the first of its kind in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province.

Work experience gives students the edge

This summer, most of Amanda Chinembiri's freshmen schoolmates at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University went home for the holidays.

Virtual Playground

Fu Cexiang has an answer for people who think playing video games is "just a way to kill time".

Chinese robotics artist makes real-life 'Transformers'

In the suburbs of Beijing, a 32-year-old engineer creates the kind of larger-than-life, shape-shifting robots that most have only seen in Transformers movies.

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Nighttime forecast for Mars: Bursts of rapidly falling snow

Headed to Mars? Remember to pack your snow gear. Turns out that there are snowstorms on the Red Planet at night, according to a new paper.

她把3平米的屋顶变成花园，还写了本清新小书记录都市中的自然雅趣

《我的花园、我的城市和我》(My Garden, the City and Me)的作者海伦.芭布丝(Helen Babbs)在她伦敦的屋顶上开辟了一座小花园，既种花又种菜，产出的蔬果还上了自己的餐桌。 芭布丝是个热爱大自然的英国姑娘，以写字为职业，其文字真诚、俏皮，且富有诗意。

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Connecting with art

Last year, five Chinese painters were commissioned by the China Artists Association to execute two works for the upcoming seventh Beijing International Art Biennale.

Exhibition focuses on work of noted army photographer

Two gunshots were heard at the Bethune International Peace Hospital in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, in December 1949. A Japanese doctor was shot dead by Sha Fei (1912-50), a patient of tuberculosis and a noted photographer of the People's Liberation Army.