Lion dance, paper cutting, cantonese opera… want to see all these Guangdong local folk art in one day ? Come to Guangdong pavilion in World Expo Shanghai from July 28 to August 1, 2010 to join the Guangdong Culture Week.
The arts Guangdong will bring to the Week are the local intangible cultural heritage, with typical [...]

World Expo Shanghai will finish construction of all pavilions in March, 2010.
The center of the World Expo park, including the China Pavilion, Performance Centre, Theme Pavilion and Expo Center, will be the only buildings kept after the Expo. For other buildings, most of them would be demolished, except the ones won public or experts’voting.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday (Dec 27) the government had stressed confidence, responsibility and cooperation in dealing with the effects of the global economic crisis.
“Since the very beginning of the economic crisis, we have felt no country could evade the grave impact of crisis or solve it alone,” Wen said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.
“(The [...]

A two-month-old king penguin chick (L) sits next to its father in its enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo in Edinburgh, Scotland December 21, 2009. The chick, the first King Penguin to be born at the zoo in over five years, still doesn’t have a name as it’s still too young to tell if it’s a boy or [...]

was the most expensive matchmaking party ever held in Beijing. There were 21 single billionaires, 22 single women and an admission fee of 100,000 yuan.
Love has a price. But this much? That is the central question of a heated debate taking place among Chinese netizens on whether these moneyed romantics have gone too far.
The party [...]

TAICHUANG: The fourth round of cross-Straits talks started Tuesday morning as negotiators sat down to hammer out three agreements on trade issues.
Chen Yunlin, president of the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), met his counterpart Chiang Pin-kung, chairaman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF).

They are expected to sign three agreements on fishing [...]

Guangzhou’s 600-year-old Chenghuang Temple (Town’s God Temple), the saving of which has been a major concern of the public, will undergo thorough renovation before the Guangzhou Asian Games of next year.
On Dec 3, the Restoration Project of the Guangzhou Chenghuang Temple was officially initiated. According to the authorities of the Yuexiu District Government, in order [...]

The start of construction work of the new campus of University of Macao (UM) is expected to significantly boost the development of Hengqin Island, where the campus will be located, just before the tenth anniversary of Macao’s return to China.
The land for the new campus will cover more than 1.09 square kilometers on Hengqin Island [...]

Edmund Ho Hau Wah (3rd L), chief executive of Macao Special Administrative Region, attends the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of Macao’s return to China, in Macao, south China, Dec. 10, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhang Jiawei)
Edmund Ho Hau Wah (Front), chief executive of Macao Special Administrative Region, addresses the opening ceremony of [...]

China’s decision to continue with its economy-anchoring policies and balance trade will help the global recovery and address the world trade imbalance, say economists.
Delegates at the annual Central Economic Work Conference threw their support behind the country’s economic stimulus and easy credit policies and vowed to make efforts to improve the quality of economic growth.
The [...]