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Charissa Echavez | Jan 19, 2017 06:45 AM EST
The Ministry of Canadian Heritage has returned the illegally exported valuable cultural properties to China in an official ceremony held in Ottawa on Wednesday. read more
Staff Reporter | Jan 16, 2017 12:05 PM EST
A Buddha statue believed to be 600 years old emerged at the Hongmen Reservoir in east China's Jiangxi Province in the city of Fuzhou after water levels dropped during renovation works. read more
mwaniki wanjiku | Jan 05, 2017 09:12 PM EST
Theology students are given advance warning that they may encounter disturbing images while studying the crucifixion of Jesus to give them a chance to leave if they fear getting upset, the Daily Mail reported. read more
Erza F. | Dec 16, 2016 12:37 AM EST
An 18th-century imperial seal belonging to Emperor Qianlong was sold at Paris for €21m holds a record in the auction house. An unknown Chinese collector acquired the treasure after a long heated bidding war. read more
Charissa Echavez | Oct 13, 2016 01:20 PM EDT
Disney announced on Tuesday that the new version of Mulan, which is set to hit theaters in fall 2018, would meet both the expectations of Chinese spectators and American audience. read more
Charissa Echavez | Oct 13, 2016 11:00 AM EDT
Chinese fantasy, sci-fi film Monster Hunt received two highly coveted prizes during the grand finale of the 13th Annual Abuja International Film Festival that ended on Friday at the Nigerian Capital. read more
Charissa Echavez | Oct 11, 2016 06:35 AM EDT
Chinese animal protection volunteers claimed they have spotted a baiji dolphin, which is a freshwater dolphin declared to be functionally extinct a decade ago, in Yangtze River in Wuhu, Anhui province, on Oct. 4. read more
Charissa Echavez | Oct 06, 2016 10:00 AM EDT
While the fiery Chinese liquor baijiu has been distilled for a thousand years exactly the same way, its makers want to transform it into "the new tequila" to attract western drinkers, Bloomberg reported. read more
Charissa Echavez | Oct 05, 2016 09:00 AM EDT
Archaeologists have unearthed an "extraordinary cache" of cannabis buried at the Jiaya cemetery in China's Turpan Basin, saying that the recent discovery could considerably shed light on how ancient Eurasian cultures used cannabis. "This unique discovery provides new insight into the ritualistic use of Cannabis in prehistoric Central Eurasia," the archaeologists wrote in a paper published in the journal Economic Botany. The cannabis plants were found in a burial of an approximately 35-year-old adult man with Caucasian features, who had been placed on a wooden bed with a reed pillow beneath his head, Hongen Jiang and his colleagues wrote. Then, interestingly, at least 13 preserved cannabis plants, each up to about three feet long, were laid diagonally across his chest, and all are reportedly in excellent conditions, the National Geographic reported. The remains suggest that the man was buried between 2,400 and 2,800 years ago, based on the radiocarbon dating. During that time, the Turpan Basin is the home of the Gushi Kingdom, while the Turpan desert oasis was deemed an important stop on the Silk Road, according to ZME Science. Researchers believe that the man belonged to a group who used cannabis for health and ritual purposes. While researchers could not determine if the cannabis plant parts found in Turpan before were grown locally or obtained through trading from other regions, the recent discovery in the Jiayi burial implicate that the cannabis had been fresh and could have been possibly harvested for the burial. Furthermore, while the flowering heads of the 13 female plants have been removed, the few that were left were nearly ripe and had immature fruit. This could suggest that the plants were planted locally and gathered the same time the burial occurred. This is the first instance whole marijuana plants were uncovered and the first incidence of their use as a "shroud" or covering in a human burial. Archaeologists before have found about two pounds of cannabis seeds and powdered leaves in other Turpan graves. read more
Charissa Echavez | Sep 28, 2016 11:27 AM EDT
Museum of London researchers unearthed two ancient skeletons of Asian ancestry buried at a Roman cemetery in London, giving new insights into the links between the Roman Empire and Imperial China. read more
Charissa Echavez | Sep 28, 2016 09:55 AM EDT
China's Beijing Contemporary Music Academy broke the world record for being the "Largest Performing Rock Band" after 953 musicians played a show altogether in Tianjin, the Guinness World Records announced on its website on Monday. read more
Charissa Echavez | Aug 24, 2016 08:15 AM EDT
Chinese sci-fi writer Hao Jingfang won the Hugo 2016 Award for Best Novelette with a short novel entry entitled "Folding Beijing" at the World Science Fiction convention, MidAmeriCon II, in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, beating American writer Stephen King for the honor. read more
Manthan Chheda | Aug 17, 2016 02:36 AM EDT
Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui won over the internet for breaking the Chinese taboo of discussing her period during an interview following a lackluster performance at the Rio Olympics. read more
Charissa Echavez | Aug 01, 2016 01:04 PM EDT
A TV series called China's Challenges won an Emmy Award in Los Angeles, marking a milestone for such bilateral collaboration between the United States and China, according to the show's producer on Sunday. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
