In 1993, Michele Tafoya was a 28-year-old sports talk radio host in the heart of US college basketball country.
When you talk about China's contributions to human development, the first response of many is gunpowder and paper. Or, maybe mobile payment channels and high-speed trains in the modern age. But is that all?
Boonie Bears, one of China's most successful animation franchises, is seeking to expand in overseas markets.
As the father of an 8-year-old boy, Wang Lei has often sat alongside his son as he watched television cartoon programs.
Aamir Khan was in China last week to promote his latest Hindi film Secret Superstar. During his weeklong stay, first in Shanghai and then in Beijing, the Indian actor also found out that he has become a major celebrity in a country where Bollywood's reach has been traditionally limited.
"I rarely shave, except during my holidays. But for this role, it's perfect to keep my beard," Placido Domingo says at a recent interview at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Zhou Xiaoli stares into her phone's screen and gently tells the frog it's bedtime.
LAS VEGAS - The children's section at the giant Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month touted "innovations that enable 21st century kids to learn and play smarter than ever".
Dressed in a traditional long robe and wearing a large belt, the muscular man from China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region looks more like a wrestler as he appears on stage, that is until his resounding voice renders the Vietnamese audience packed into the auditorium speechless.
Beijing plans to train more teachers to tackle a shortage, especially in elementary education, according to local educational authorities. An additional 1,000 students will be recruited every year by three major universities - Capital Normal University, Teachers' College of Beijing Union University, and Capital University of Physical Education and Sports - in Beijing from 2018 to 2022, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission says.
The University of Birmingham signed an agreement with the University of Science and Technology Beijing on Jan 18 to create two new education programs for Chinese students.
The Yin-Trend Music Night in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, offered the audience more than just music as there were also interactive projections, high-tech robots and artworks by avant-garde artists presented on the same stage with some of the country's biggest pop stars.
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