KIRKENES, Norway - About 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, fireworks lit up the evening sky of Kirkenes, Norway's Barents port, or "World's Northernmost Chinatown" in the five days from last Wednesday.
Wang Aoyun, 11, is a fifth-grade student at Taipingzhuang Central Primary School in Yanqing district, Beijing. She was born in the summer of 2008 and her name means Olympics in Chinese. Wang is a member of the Yanqing Youth Speed Skating Team. And she once won the women's junior group 400 meters in the Yanqing's "Mini Winter Olympics" youth speed skating competition.
Peter Salovey, Yale University president, says he is proud of the Ivy League institution's association with China and wants to further strengthen ties.
The Chongqing Disabled Art Troupe from China is winning hearts with its ongoing dance show in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Hong Kong chef Tam Takchuen's culinary journey began back in the 1970s, when he spent a summer selling dim sum out of a basket to hungry diners at a neighborhood restaurant.
In a city famed for foie gras and filet mignon, some of the world's top chefs gathered in Paris on Tuesday to showcase the green side of gastronomy, for the planet and our palettes.
As China's largest and most vibrant market for musicals, Shanghai will host its first international musical festival to promote original Chinese productions starting in March, said officials during a news conference for the festival in late December.
There were 351 musicals staged in 45 theaters across Shanghai between January and August 2018, accounting for about 7.4 percent of the total number of live performances in the city, according to an annual report by Shanghai Culture Square. These musicals were viewed by 323,000 people and generated more than 50.8 million yuan ($7.5 million) in sales, a significant 166 percent higher than in the same period the previous year.
Happy and Bee, the two daughters of American financial investor Jim Rogers, have become stars in China. The video clips in which they speak perfect Mandarin went viral in 2018 across China's social media platforms.
SHIJIAZHUANG - The Lantern Festival, which fell on Tuesday, two weeks after Lunar New Year, is the busiest time of the year for folk artist Wang De, but it is also the moment when he feels the most proud of his signature craft: creating molten iron fireworks.
Bookstores in China have seen four phases of development, with the latest and ongoing focus needed on branding, according to the 2018-19 China Bookstore Industrial Report.
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