MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese skater Liu Qiuhong won a silver medalin women's 1,000 meters in ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating here on Saturday. Liu, who is from China's national team, once led the 1,000 meter race but only finished secon...
NYC's Chinatown Prepares for Chinese New Year Dancers are rehearsing a millennium-old Chinese tradition - the Lion Dance. It will be the finale of Chinatown's annual New Year parade at the end of January and is supposed to ward off evil spirits. The...
ABU DHABI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao held talks Monday with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on major international issues. During their talks, Wen said the United Nations had played an indispensable role in boosting int...
Chinese Symbols Prove Popular in US 汉字在美国大受欢迎 From the moment Spaniards - or Vikings, some would say - first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians because they thought they had arrived in India -...
BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Dallas Mavericks is set to sign free agent forward Yi Jianlian on a one-year deal, according to an ESPN report on Sunday. The 24-year-old Chinese averaged 5.6 points and 3.9 rebounds with Washington last season. Yi's b...
Chinese Adopt Western Holiday of Christmas Christmas is not a traditional Chinese holiday. But the brightly-colored lights of the season are attracting a growing number of Chinese fans, who say they like the idea of decorating and giving gifts. In Be...
BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese soccer fans witnessed another year of fiascos, but this time, they accept it more peacefully as both players and fans feel nothing unusual for they've tasted so many failures in recent years and some of them even...
US Travel Industry Caters to Chinese Tourists More and more people from China are traveling abroad as tourists. The number of Chinese travellers is growing so fast that Hilton Hotels hired the University of London's School of Oriental and African Stu...
Unlikely Pair Find Solace in Traditional Chinese Music A Chinese musical program near Oakland, California's Chinatown has been offering a safe haven for children of working class Chinese American families. It's a place where students can spend free t...
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Almost one in four Chinese students aged between 12 and 14 have tried smoking, according to the results of a survey released by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (CATC). The survey, carried out among 38,839 st...