With cheap American TV content and their Arab imitators, content per se is never an issue. It's quality content that poses a problem. To pretend that such low quality programs haven't deeply scarred Arab...
At a time when low-budget Hollywood movies routinely cost tens of millions of dollars, the film's $2 million budget meant that overpriced computer graphics were not an option for the special effects. Cinematographer...
Centuries ago in old Japan people in cities and villages were accustomed to the sight of a Buddhist priest playing a bamboo flute with his head completely covered by a straw hat. This was the komuso. Komuso were...
emi-kaneko-1.jpgEmi Kaneko ( , Emi Kaneko, born 1965) is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Fukushima Prefecture, she did her undergraduate study
BusinessWeek published a special report on virtual world on Monday, with one article on virtual World in China which featured Hipihi , Novoking and UOneNet (a.k.a. uWorld ). On April 21st, Hipihi announced the beginning of its public beta testing
Microsoft China broke ground on Tuesday on a 280-million-U.S.-dollar research and development campus in Zhongguancun, Beijing's high-tech region. The campus, with two buildings offering 101,000 square meters of space, is expected to ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed on Wednesday to establish a regular exchange of visits mechanism in an effort to enhance bilateral ties.Source:Xinhua ...
The large-scale housing projects in Tibet have been implemented for more than a year and 94,622 farmers and herdsmen have moved into new homes, as reporter learned from The launching Ceremony of "Green Paper of China's New Rural Constructio ...
Chinese shares ended 4.13 percent lower Wednesday on profit-taking, continuing the downward trend of the previous trading day, with securities and airline heavyweights leading the dive. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index conclud ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday advanced a four-point proposal for the further development of China-Japan economic and trade cooperation. In a speech at the welcome luncheon hosted by key Japanese business groups, Hu brough ...
The number of China UnionPay Card's agents in Japan has been over 10,000 by the end of April, 2008. The number of ATM in Japan providing service to China UnionPay Card has passed 46,000, according to data released by China
Renovation of a key monastery in Tibet has resumed amid warming spring weather after being suspended during the freezing winter, a local official said Wednesday. Workers have returned to the Sagya Monastery in Lhasa, capital of Chin ...
Fresh out of college, Shen Juntian returned to the village he left with a "city dream" four years earlier. He returned as a village administrator. Now a village head assistant in Maozhuang in central China's Henan Province, ...
Living in a brick house, drinking tap water and irrigating the land have long been Ma Dexue's dream. The 35-year-old man of Hui nationality will be able to realize his dream this year thanks to the largest relocation project in
Contagious hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) had led to 28 deaths in China as of Wednesday morning, according to Xinhua's tally based on confirmed death reports from provincial-level health bureaus. Two new child deaths were reported b ...
The Red Cross Society of China decided on Tuesday to offer 30,000 U.S. dollars in aid to the Myanmar Red Cross Society for cyclone disaster relief and reconstruction. A devastating cyclone, Nargis, ripped through Myanmar over the we ...
Attempts by some Western politicians to politicize the Beijing Olympic Games are against the Olympic Charter and ideals and are opposed by peace-loving people all over the world, the official Minju Joson daily said Wednesday. Everyo ...
China will start a five-year program to lift the Aba region in Sichuan Province out of poverty and reduce the incidence of an incurable endemic bone disease. Maiwa Township in Hongyuan County, located in the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous ...
People's lifestyle in Tibet has totally changed, but the local culture has remained unchanged, said a Nepali journalist who visited the Tibetan Plateau last year. "When we can compare Tibet 50 years ago to the new Tibet, there is m
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Wednesday urged the main rice-growing provinces in south and southwest China to be on the alert for two common pests, the rice plant hopper and the rice leaf roller, which have infested several provinces
