TBILISI - Sad city dwellers should seek solace in a local park, according to a survey tracking tweets that showed a walk in leafy surroundings lifts morale among Twitter users. Trees in cities are already credited with cooling and cleaning the air, along with absorbing planet-warming gases, but a team of researchers from the University of Vermont in the United States found they also increase happiness.
Lines of black ink slash back and forth across the page, vividly contrasting with the crisp white of the paper. Each stroke, though slightly different - some heavy and dark, others light and wispy - contributes to helping form the finished composition.
SWAKOPMUND, Namibia - "Who was the first astronaut in space? Who was the first astronaut landing on the moon? Who was the first Chinese astronaut?" a group of visibly excited students asked.
ACCRA - Benjamin Gyimah, 21, is a high school graduate working at the GS Plaza Hotel, a leading Chinese hospitality facility in Ghana's capital.
A tiny person in a traditional white Chinese gown wanders about in the vast world, drinking tea in an exquisite little courtyard, occasionally dozing off on a fluffy paint brush, and most recently, roaming through a kingdom constructed out of Chinese characters.
The National Ballet of China and the China Animation Comic Game Group will adapt the Chinese version of The Nutcracker into an animated film which is set for release at the end of this year.
Panshan Mountain's cool climate made it a summer resort for Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) emperors and the ideal spot to host a recent event in which over 500 martial artists from 27 schools competed as temperatures in surrounding areas surpassed 40 C in mid-July.
Northeast Asia's food, intangible heritage and folk performances will take center stage in the ethnic Korean autonomous prefecture of Yanbian in China's Jilin province from Sept 3 to 8.
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of tourists, many of them young Westerners, sat on gray stone steps atop the world's largest Buddhist temple, occasionally checking cellphones or whispering to each other as they waited for daylight.
Chang Shana, the respected scholar on Dunhuang art and traditional crafts, recalls a day in the early 1950s when she accompanied an architect couple, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, to an exhibition at the Palace Museum in Beijing. The display was of copies of the Mogao murals made by researchers at the Dunhuang Academy, including those by her and her father, Chang Shuhong, the academy's late founding director.
To celebrate its 60th birthday, the National Ballet of China will stage Russian choreographer George Balanchine's classic three-act ballet, Jewels, at the Tianqiao Theater in Beijing from Sept 12 to 14.
NANNING - At about 8 pm every night, one hour after his dinner, 45-year-old Xie Zhongguo opens his computer and searches for new items to acquire for his Liu Sanjie cultural museum.
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