Tourism industry insiders in Los Angeles are hopeful that more and more Chinese tourists will continue to visit the city in the next few years despite the recent economic factors working against their favor, such as the unpredictable Chinese stock market and the weakening of the yuan against the dollar, as reported by China Daily.
Nearly 90 percent of the victims of domestic abuse last year in Shanghai were married women. Around 31 percent of the victims were between the ages of 26 and 45, while 11 percent were older than 60.
Travelers have voted and rated what they think are the best beaches in the world. Their feedbacks on the coastlines which they actually visited were also collected by TripAdvisor, the world’s biggest travel booking and planning site, in order to determine the world’s best beaches.
With China’s millennial generation playing an increasingly growing role in Chinese society, how does the Chinese government plan to instill patriotism among today’s youth? The answer lies within “red songs,” the Global Times reported.
A group of high-school students in Shanghai conducted a survey during the holiday season to determine how elder brothers and sisters felt about their parents having a second child. The group of teenagers quizzed more than 1,500 parents with two children about the happiness of their older children.
The head of a Buddha statue that is around 1,500 years old is now displayed at the National Museum of China in Beijing after being gone for two decades. The head of the statue was stolen in 1996.
Dalian Wanda Group Co. plans to invest over 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in a leisure and retail development project on the outskirts of Paris, in direct competition with Walt Disney Co.’s Disneyland Paris. It will include a theme park, show stage, hotel, retail stores and conference centers.
Officials are discouraging couples from getting divorced as a result of the rising divorce rate in the country. In 2014 alone, about 3.6 million couples got divorced--double the numbers in the previous decade.
Hosted by Peabody Awardee Jessica Soho, the Filipino magazine TV show “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho” featured Jeyrick Sigmaton, 21, dubbed the Carrot Man, in the episode aired on Feb. 28, Sunday. Featured as resource persons were Dr. Carolyn Sobritchea, an anthropologist, and Prof. Jimmuel Naval.
Chicago-based photographer, Kai Caemmerer, documented these so-called ghost cities after travelling to China to explore them in 2015. His series, entitled "Unborn Cities," depicts this unique urban development phenomenon. During his trip, he photographed three locations: the Kangbashi District of Ordos, the Yujiapu Financial District near Tianjin, and the Meixi Lake development near the city of Changsha.
While almost all marriages are expensive in many parts of the world--considering the cost of wedding celebrations and of setting up a new home--in China grooms face the added problem of having to pay a betrothal gift, usually in the form of cash, to offer to the bride’s parents.
The Igorot tribe that inhabits the mountains of Luzon in the Philippines can be compared to the Native Americans and African-Americans. This is the tribe where Jeyrick Sigmaton, 21, famously known as the Carrot Man, belongs.
Moscow’s dining scene is seeing a new trend as Chinese restaurants are mushrooming in the Russian capital, according to an article by CRIENGLISH.com.
Climate change has wide-ranging effects, including rising temperatures, melting icecaps and extreme weather conditions. This apart, a new aspect of climate change is worrying the global health community these days. The latest discovery that climate change is also responsible for mosquito-borne diseases, for instance Zika, has given rise to widespread concerns.
