LOS ANGELES - Lending a helping hand to a co-worker, checking in on an elderly neighbor or allowing someone to cut in front of you in a traffic jam.
SYDNEY - Researchers from the University of New South Wales have for the first time found organic matter in a group of 3.5-billion-year-old fossilized stromatolites known as the Dresser Formation in Western Australia's Pilbara region.
Beijing-based sculptor Ren Zhe developed a fascination for warriors - both historical and mythological - in childhood as he listened to people telling stories of war heroes.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra has launched its latest tour in China, with two concerts at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing taking place on Saturday and Sunday.
The dead city of Khara-Khoto's legacy lives on in the Gobi. So, too, do its ghosts, according to - and certainly in - local legend.
BANGKOK - Thailand's southern beaches lure travelers with their turquoise water and dramatic limestone cliffs, but there's more to explore in the Southeast Asian country.
Li Chaoyun likes bamboo. The native of Sichuan province, a major producer of bamboo, appreciates a line from Su Dongpo (1037-1101), a great man of letters and a household name in the history of Chinese literature, that goes: "I can stand a meal without meat but cannot stand living without bamboo."
MOSCOW - A photo exhibition to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China as well as the friendship between Russia and China over the past seven decades opened in Moscow last week.
Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author and playwright Peter Handke were announced as winners of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2018 and 2019 respectively on Thursday.
An exhibition showcasing a selection of photos by Swedish photographer Tomas Gunnarsson is being held in Shanghai through Oct 20.
On May 13, 1939, a vessel set sail from Hamburg for Cuba with 937 German-Jewish refugees, following the violence of Kristallnacht. The refugees were denied entry to Cuba and then they had to sail from port to port, hoping to find a country that would accept them.
Standing in front of the blackboard, Christina Xu announced the start of the class. Eighteen students stood up, shouted their greetings of "good morning" in Chinese, and started the 90-minute class.
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