The Juilliard School in New York has announced plans to open a branch in Tianjin by 2018. The world-renowned performing arts school will teach music in the Tianjin Conservatory of Music in Binhai New Area.
Fifty "Chinese corners" have opened in 35 countries around the world. They contain Chinese publications that help students learn about Chinese language and culture.
A photograph entitled “On the River,” taken by Vladimir Proshin, won the top prize at the Siena International Photography Awards held on Oct. 31, the China Daily reported.
The Confucius Peace Prize has announced that this year's winner is Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, causing negative reactions among the public. The prize is notorious for its controversial winners.
Last April eight-year-old-boy Lake Bozman became an honorary Atlanta Hawk player, which provided him with a one-day contract and an NBA basketball jersey. Weeks later Lake lost his fight with leukemia cancer. His mother Anna Bozman-Thompson posted a family wedding photograph after recently marrying her long-time boyfriend. The Facebook photoshopped photo that pays tribute to her dead son has gone viral throughout the United States.
A unique medical case has been reported in which researchers have discovered cancer cells in a dwarf tapeworm residing in a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient. The cells that might have been caused by the patient's weakened immune system developed into cancer-like tumors that looked nearly the same as the human tumors in the man's body.
A group of researchers is determined to save China's linguistic diversity and heritage from extinction, according to an article by Women of China. The group is spearheaded by Zhou Jixu, a linguistics professor from the School of Literal Arts of Sichuan Normal University.
Regular intake of sugar-sweetened beverages can be fatal. It contributes to heart failure development in men.This was the finding published in Heart, the British Cardiovascular Society's official journal.
A curious deer walked slowly up behind Megan Rion after she positioned the newborn baby boy Conner snuggling into a hay bale, for a woodland scene photo shoot in a Louisiana park. After the deer's "photobomb" (surprise appearance of a person or thing in a picture) last month, the image became a viral photo within 24-hours of being posted on the company's Facebook page.
New studies that included McDonald's, Burger king, Chick-Fil-A, and Starbucks create some big questions about whether calorie counting labels at fast food restaurants, diners, and eateries help customers to battle obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other health conditions and diseases, by improving their eating habits. The findings were released before nationwide rules for calorie-tracking restaurant chain menus will launch next year.
Scores of netizens recently poked fun at a tweet made by the World Economic Forum on the 14 things successful people do.
Zhu Chunxie made a life-changing decision by selling his company and house to embark on a five-year trip around the world together with his 2-year-old daughter. Zhu said that it is important for him to be there for his daughter as she grows up.
China's youngest poet, nine-year-old Liang Shengjie, has sent the Internet abuzz after writing controversial poems.
Xia Yan's residence is set to be transformed as a cultural center. This wasa announced by the officials of the Xuhiu District where the building was located.
A new study shows that nearly all 4-year-old American toddlers from low-income, urban, and non-white families have learned how to use smartphones and tablets when they are just old enough talk and walk. In fact, most children start tapping and swiping mobile device screens before their first birthday.
