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Festival city

[2019-01-31 07:32]

Whether the past year was good or bad, Spring Festival is a time to celebrate for every Chinese person.

A Beijing show highlights pig motifs on cultural items

[2019-01-31 07:32]

A new exhibition celebrating the Year of the Pig opened to the public at the Capital Museum in Beijing on Tuesday. The first day of Lunar New Year falls on Feb 5 this year.

Chinese film faces final frontier

[2019-01-31 07:32]

Despite holding its own as the world's second-largest film market for seven years, China has yet to shape a functional system to produce sci-fi blockbusters, a genre that has been led by Hollywood for more than half a century.

Deadpool makes China debut, but seen to falter

[2019-01-31 07:32]

One of Hollywood's most popular superheroes, Deadpool, has made his debut on the Chinese mainland long after the franchise kicked off elsewhere, and has topped the nation's box-office charts since the latest movie opened on Jan 25.

An inspirational tale

[2019-01-31 07:32]

While shooting for Hong Kong director Stephen Chow's latest film, The New King of Comedy, actress E Jingwen found most of the days "miserable".

Performers prepare for the year's biggest show

[2019-01-31 07:32]

Two people held the woman's feet and threw her in the air. After she completed two descending spins, the duo caught her.

Flush with ideas

[2019-01-30 07:46]

On a cold Saturday morning, 27-year-old Shi Yilei and 27-year-old Di Zhenhua are checking a 12-meter-long "container" in an empty plant of Beijing Dongfeng Electrical Co in Fengtai district, a one-hour ride from downtown Beijing.

Turning resolutions into reality

[2019-01-30 07:46]

Pan Shuo got a cat on Jan 5. It wasn't a rash decision. Rather, he'd wrestled with the idea for more than eight months. "I was afraid to make a commitment," the 31-year-old Beijinger says. "I was so happy to have realized one of my New Year's resolutions when I followed through."

Female inner circles help women thrive

[2019-01-30 07:46]

CHICAGO - Women who communicate regularly with a female-dominated inner circle are more likely to attain high-ranking leadership positions, according to a study by Northwestern University and the University of Notre Dame, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Drawing inspiration

[2019-01-30 07:46]

With four cats, two computers, a shelf loaded with colored pencils, several wooden boards and closed curtains, Meng Xianglei often stays in his studio for hours, with time seeming to stop when he is drawing.

AI-driven device to screen kids for anxiety

[2019-01-30 07:46]

WASHINGTON - Not all children are as happy as we usually expect. About 20 percent suffer from anxiety and depression, but those internalized disorders are hard to spot.

The nation helps build school of geoscience

[2019-01-30 07:46]

KAMPALA - The China University of Petroleum and Uganda's Makerere University have signed an agreement to establish a geoscience and petroleum institute to build capacity in the country's nascent oil-and-gas sector.

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