Traditional Chinese folk masks have become the focus of a new art exhibition in Brussels. The show tries to merge the east and west by using classical Chinese imagery in domestic settings in Belgium. The Chinese and French artistic duo Benoit and Bo...
It's one thing to count your blessings, or sheep - and quite another to count the items in a museum's collection. But here in Beijing, The Palace Museum - also known as the Forbidden City - has finished doing just that. It took the museum staff seven...
China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival....
In some places of China, Qingming festival is also called Cold Food Day. Traditionally on this day, people did not use fire and only ate cold food. And, sweet green rice balls are a type of cold food people often eat on this day. The food is especial...
One of the most exciting exhibitions to hit New York this spring features Chinese art from the Qin and Han dynasties - it's the talk of the town... It even has a new symphony commissioned specially for it by the Chinese contemporary classical compose...
Jason Aldean took home the Entertainer of the Year at the 2017 Academy of Country Music Awards. And a variety of artists gave top-notch performances. The Backstreet Boys shined brightly at the 2017 Academy of Country Music Awards. The boy band had th...
Prosecutors in South Korea are seeking warrants to examine the assets of those close to Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the center of the country's snowballing political scandal and the confidante of impeached President Park Geun-hye. Around 40 people ha...
As we mentioned, President Xi will travel to the US for his first face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump. The two-day trip will be held in Florida at the Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Dubbed the Winter White House, the Mar-a-Lago estate is own...
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President Xi Jinping will head to Finland and the United States next week at the invitation of the presidents of both nations. The Chinese Foreign Ministry says it expects both trips to be productive. From the 4th to the 6th of April, Xi Jinping will...
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Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is currently in China on an official state visit, and he spoke to CGTN's foreign affairs reporter Su Yuting about how the two countries can cooperate within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Serbia is f...
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has introduced China's first local regulation aimed at containing and eradicating extremism. 15 actions are now classified as extremism. They include interfering with the religious freedom of others,...
Ahead of the Xi-Trump summit, the Chinese President will first pay a state visit to Finland. President Xi will visit the country from Tuesday to Thursday, his first to Northern Europe as head of state. Prior to his visit, Xi published an article in t...
On the belt and road investment, China is hoping to get Finland on board for its technology. Let's hear what China's ambassador to Finland has to say. Although Finland is on the northwestern stretch of the bet-and-road area, but its new technology is...
