The Star Wars toy collection and other rare film memorabilia owned by a mega-fan was put up for auction in New York on December 11, Friday. Japanese fashion designer NIGO (Tomoaki Nagao) earned over half a million dollars by putting a small portion of his movie collectibles on the auction block, including Star Wars merchandise featuring characters such as Han Solo and Darth Vader.
People who plan to spruce up their homes by yearend may take inspiration from designers' choice of colors that will rule 2016. These are rose quartz, serenity, and simply white.
The Shanghai Peking Opera Company is set to stage shows based on the Monkey King. The narrative will be distributed to four shows that will be staged throughout 2016.
The loving parents of a baby who has survived being born with a partial brain and skull have posted a heartwarming Facebook photo of the infant's first visit with Santa Claus. Doctors were worried that the baby boy would not survive a week after being born in August 2014, due to suffering from a condition in which fluid replaces brain tissue. However, the "miracle baby" is beating the odds and is now almost 15 months old as his second Christmas and New Year's approach.
Aiming to performing dual functions of introducing foreign art and promoting traditional Chinese art, the 18th Beijing International Art Fair (BIAF) will open at the Beijing Exhibition Centre starting Dec. 27 until 31, the Global Times reported.
“The Master of Chinese Modernism Art,” an exhibit that opened in Shanghai on Nov. 20, highlights the important contributions of artist Zhang Guangyu to contemporary Chinese art, China Daily reported.
A large museum will be erected in Jiangxi Province in honor of the Marquis of Haihun State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- A.D. 24), according to the Jiangxi provincial government. The Museum of Royal Tombs is planned to a part of a world cultural park, China Daily reported.
A 7th grade student at a Texas junior high school was informed by its officials that the Star Wars t-shirt he wore to class was banned because it contained the picture of a Storm Trooper holding a weapon/gun. The pupil was required to zip up his jacket to cover the image, because the school's dress code does not allow clothing with symbols related to violence. It raises issues about school policies and First Amendment rights.
A mother living in the Denver, Colorado area who has been blind for more than two decades recently started to tear up after using her new bionic eye to see her son for the first time in several years. The ocular device was switched on a month after the she received an eye implant surgery on November 2. The Colorado woman suffers from a disease that causes the retina's cells to die slowly.
Chinese philanthropist Wang Zhenyao has recently been appointed as the president of the Shenzhen International Philanthropy Academy, China’s first international philanthropy academy, according to a report by Beijing.china.org.cn.
The younger generation has been found to be lacking exercise nowadays. Adults are already having problems with the cubicle setup in offices, but now the teens are experiencing the same level of sedentary lifestyle even before they reach adulthood, a recent sudy revealed.
The Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) will soon start converting its famous cookie-selling program to an online version, allowing fans to buy boxes of cookies from their laptops, smartphones, or tablets. That includes the super-popular Thin Mints, Samoas, and Peanut Butter Patties. An early 2015 pilot program proved that GSUSA troops were ready to start selling the sweet baked goods on the Internet through the "Digital Cookie" platform.
Martin Shkreli's pharmaceutical company will significantly boost the price of a lifesaving drug for the parasitic infection Chagas disease. The ex-hedge fund manager announced last week in a conference call with the company's investors that it had purchased the Chagas medication, and would price the treatment close to hepatitis C drugs. A full hepatitis C treatment can cost patients a sky-high $80,000.
A 99 percent of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's personal Facebook shares amounting to $45 billion will be given away as Zuckerberg announced it on the day of birth of his daughter, Max.
Losing fat to lose weight is one of the main targets of men and women in pursuit of total health of well-being and aside from working out in the gym, nutrition plays a vital role as well.
