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With four record seizures in a span of two months, it's the bloodiest World Pangolin Day in the history of the ant-eating mammal.
Huangshan Mountain, a tourist attraction with peculiar mountain peaks and distinctive pine trees in Anhui province, also offers delicately baked crispy pancake.
Tens of thousands of students and teachers stood in silent tribute on Thursday at more than 1,000 schools across the U.S.According to data from a New York Times report issued Thursday, nearly 1,200 more children have lost their lives since the Parkland shooting.
"I was surprised and very happy to join the City of Azusa's Chinese New Year Celebration," Zhang Yue, who has lived in the small city of Southern California for 10 years, told Xinhua when attending the first Chinese Lunar New Year celebration on Tuesday night.
About 400 km 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 Wednesday.
Valentine's Day is approaching and people in many parts of the world are getting ready to lighten their wallets for their loved ones.
There were only 78,000 Chinese Americans living on the United States mainland at the start of World War II.In March 1945, the Eighth Division successfully crossed the Rhine, encircled approximately 430,000 German soldiers, trapping them in an area that came to be known as the Ruhr Pocket.
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people around the world. As Chinese culture is gradually accepted by the rest of the world, the influence of the Spring Festival is also expanding. The U.S. state of California, for example, has made the Spring Festival an official local holiday.
From NBA teams to luxury brands, American industries are sparing no efforts in cashing in on the holiday season of the Lunar New Year to reach out to China's exploding middle class market.
"Science fiction" has become a keyword in China's film market during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, with two sci-fi films hitting big screens and receiving favorable reviews from the critics and audience.
With the consumption during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday surging steadily, the Chinese economy has shown its unabated vitality while ushering in the Year of the Pig.
Lau Wai-kin, one of many young people in Hong Kong with savvy technological skills, decided to pursue a career as an e-sports superstar a few years back. But it wasn't a quest for fame that drove him.
London hosted on Sunday one of the largest Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to the heart of the British capital to share the joy.
Trips from small cities to larger ones before Chinese New Year often enjoy wide-ranging discounts. Some still reluctant to bring parents over, preferring tradition of going back home
Probably nobody in Seattle has talked with more business and government leaders around the world than Bill Stafford has, according to a local business journal.
Wang Yulan, 53, is busy packing up her baggage preparing for her first family trip abroad during Spring Festival, China's most important traditional holiday, largely a time for families to get together.
Why is Spring Festival still so important in the new Chinese era? There are three keywords: home, beginning and evolution.
Veteran train driver Zhou Li, 54, has driven all four generations of Chinese trains -- from steam locomotives to high-speed.
Eyeing growing appetite among Chinese consumers for premium meat, Uruguayan meatpacker Rondatel S.A. is looking to expand export of its distinctive black-pack meat products to the Chinese market.
Venezuela has been mired in difficult economic and political situations after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president and was recognized by the United States and some other countries, arousing fear of foreign military intervention.
Nestled on a secluded beach of San Pablo Bay in Northern California are a few wooden shacks, a long pier and a shrimp-drying building – the remnants of a Chinese fishing village.
The lunar New Year, more commonly known as Spring Festival or the Chinese New Year, will be celebrated on February 5 this year. It is the biggest festival and holiday in China.
Sydney's Lunar New Year events got off to an early start on Thursday night with the opening of a photography exhibition depicting modern China, attended by former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Beijing-based Liu Ronghuan has no problem paying almost 5,000 yuan ($746) for her cat to spend seven days in a luxurious pet hotel, while she leaves Beijing for a family reunion during China's traditional Spring Festival.
"As Japan resists and denies, the more news is generated in this regard, and the more likely the truth will be finally told to all," said Phyllis Kim, executive director of the Korean American Forum of California (KAFC).
Medical workers in a hospital in Yiwu city of Zhejiang province managed to help save the life of a foreigner with their professionalism and wisdom last month.
Little Q, a golden retriever in a red vest, embarked on a 1,300-kilometer journey with his master during the Spring Festival travel rush.
Previously city-dwellers, educated professionals are returning to rural areas to revivify agricultural practices, technologies
Unlike their parents' generation, a growing number of young Chinese professionals like Dong do not have marriage and children at the top of their priority lists.
2019 is the Year of the Pig in the Chinese calendar, and traditional beliefs hold that the chubby pink animals are a symbol of wealth. It is said that children born in the Year of the Pig are lucky, joyful and blessed with good fortune in life.
