New York - The Metropolitan Museum of Art is partially abandoning its "pay-what-you-wish" admissions policy that has made it an egalitarian destination for generations of art lovers.
Easter Island's stone statues. Latin American culture. Exceptional wine. Chile's offerings make it worth a long-haul flight, says 40-year-old Beijing resident Ma Limei.
BANGKOK - About 20,000 visitors cheered as the clock struck midnight, ringing in the New Year, in eastern Thailand's Rayong province. Fireworks lit up the sky above the seaside town, where the national tourism authority had organized a massive countdown event to welcome 2018.
Beijing kicked off the New Year with its first low-altitude tourism flight.
China's national football team may be absent from this summer's World Cup, but Chinese fans may still have the chance to cheer on a few of their favorite soccer stars - so long as they hail from Spain, that is.
NEW YORK - Pop superstar Justin Timberlake on Tuesday announced his first album in nearly five years, promising more "personal" songwriting inspired by his home and family.
In terms of the creation of literature, both critics and publishers can agree that 2017 was a busy year, and one also filled with achievements, judging by the number and quality of literary works published in journals and as individual titles.
LONDON - Characters from the award-winning hit fantasy TV series, Game of Thrones, will appear on a new series of stamps, Britain's Royal Mail announced on Wednesday. The collection of 15 stamps will feature British contributions to the US show based on the books by George R. R. Martin.
SHANGHAI - The Three Body trilogy, a popular Chinese science-fiction novel trilogy by Liu Cixin, has been published in more than 10 languages, according to a Chinese publishing company. The three-part saga depicts the human race's contact and conflict with an alien civilization. Its finale, Dead End, was released in 2010.
From roast mutton in Northeast China and a 10-year-old sorghum wine in a small town in Sichuan province to a bowl of rice noodles at a Vietnamese restaurant in Paris, Wang Kai has eaten them all. He still remembers how the food tasted and even the expression on a waitress' face.
When the president and chief digital officer of Conde Nast International, Wolfgang Blau, visited China in late 2017, Paco Tang, the 33-year-old publisher of GQ China, took him to a fresh food supermarket in Beijing for dinner.
The Russian army's official dance and choir troupe, the Alexandrov Ensemble, is staging five shows at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing from Jan 4 to 7, with a variety of songs, dances and instrumental performances.
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