Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo has been a longtime admirer of the late Japanese actor Ken Takakura. But Woo did not get a chance to work with Takakura, who died in 2014.
In Marvel comic books, Peter Parker is a New Yorker. But should the famed character, also known as Spider-Man, not have a New York accent? The answer is complicated.
The subway passenger hears his mobile phone go off. He then reaches into his shirt pocket for a pen, unrolling a small sheet from it to take his call.
One by one, the five dancers emerge from the shadow of a 20-meter-tall desk, toward the center of the stage.
It's a hot afternoon when Zhong Qilan walks out of his house sweating in the sun to check out his navel oranges that cover about 10 hectares of a mountainous area in Jiangxi province.
Bi Yalin, 22, stares at the screen of her mobile phone and stabs furiously at it with her fingers. She is completely engrossed in an online, multiplayer battle game.
Video blogger Jiang Haitao starts most of his days at 5 pm. After his "breakfast", he is online from 7 pm to about 2 am - most of which is spent on the popular multiplayer game King of Glory.
NEW YORK - The number of US K-12 students learning Mandarin has doubled to around 400,000 in two years, says Morgan Jones, chief operating officer, US-China Strong Foundation.
WASHINGTON - In middle school, Junior Alvarado often struggled with multiplication and earned poor grades in math, so when he started his freshman year at Washington Leadership Academy, a charter high school in the US capital, he fretted that he would lag behind.
About two years ago, when Hu Hanchi, who was studying at the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts, decided to make his directorial debut, he chose San Sheng (literally meaning Three Lives), a story from Liaozhai Zhiyi, or Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio, a collection of supernatural tales by Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
She was the most photographed woman in the world from the early '80s up until the time of her death in 1997, and Princess Diana rarely put a foot wrong. While she is still name-checked as one of the greatest style icons, she was equally as influential when it came to her hair and makeup.
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