Leroy Chiao has sky-high ambitions. He is one of the few people lucky enough to have seen the Earth from outer space. And since he's made four journeys into the velvety black vacuum of the cosmos, the Chinese-American veteran astronaut now finds that few trivial earthly affairs concern him since he saw "so many magnificent views" from extraterrestrial vantage points.
US astronaut Neil Armstrong descended from landing craft Eagle on July 20, 1969, and his next action captivated the world.
Throughout Central Hebei Province in North China, a kind of folk band called Yinyue Hui ("music society") has been playing an important role in the people's lives for centuries. Their music is always an integral part of temple fairs, funerals, and religious ceremonies. Such music, called jizhong shengguanyue or sheng (mouth organ) and guan (pipe) music from central Hebei, was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage last year.
Tian Qing is constantly haunted by the rumbling sound of bulldozers. The deputy director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation Center of China fears that so much of his nation's culture is still under threat despite the media attention his campaigning receives.
The career of young director Ning Hao, 30, can be divided into "pre-Stone Age" and "post-Stone Age", with his black humor picture Crazy Stone (Fengkuang De Shitou) in 2006 as a boundary. The 4-million-yuan ($512,000) movie collected 20 million yuan ($2.56 million) at the national box office, and a rare phenomenon in Chinese cinema.
Ning Hao's fourth movie Crazy Racing Car will start filming in July, said Warner China Film HG Corporation, the distributor of Ning's last film, Crazy Stone, (Fengkuang De Shitou) which won both box office and public praise in 2006.
SHANGHAI: The African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to implement further reforms to improve efficiency, bank officials pledged before wrapping up a two-day gathering here yesterday.
SHANGHAI: Madagascar aims to enhance its capacity for self-development through win-win cooperation with China and the rest of the world.
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