The international Chinese speech competition for college and secondary school students, Chinese Bridge, kicked off with a ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday.

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Lebanese diva Fairuz performs at Lebanon's new state-of-art Platea theater in Sahel Alma, north of the capital Beirut on December 10, 2011. Photo: AFPThe Arab w

Posters for Hausa films at a VDC shop in northern Nigeria's city of Kano on February 14, 2008 Photo: AFPAt a time when the coronavirus is wreaking havoc on busi

Winners of the 2020 Miss Hong Kong Pageant: Maisie Kwong Mei-suen, Celina Harto, Lisa Tse Ga-ye and Rosita Kwok Pak-yin Photo: VCG

The final competition of the

Convocation at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) on Wednesday Photo: Courtesy of DKUAt a time when some universities in the US are putting in-person classes on hold

Kalbeliya gypsy dancer Aasha Sapera practices before hosting an online dance class amid the coronavirus pandemic in Jodhpur, India on August 13. Photo: AFPAs a

A woman holds a photograph of US actor and producer Chadwick Boseman during a candlelight vigil held by fans in Los Angeles on Saturday. Photo: AFPAn In Memori

The Poetry for Future exhibition at the St Regis Beijing Photo: Courtesy of Zhou XiaoWith life returning to normal as the coronavirus epidemic remains under con

Visitors tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as it reopens to the public on Saturday. Safety protocols are in place, including mandatory face coveri

The When Speed Become Form exhibition in Beijing Photo: Courtesy of Wind H Art CenterBeijing's Wind H Art Center kicked off a new group exhibition featuring 48

Chinese fans of Michael Jackson pose for a group photo with the statue. Photo: Li Yuche/GT

A statue of US music legend Michael Jackson was unveiled at a busine

Players are playing Tibetan chess. Photo: Snapshot of Qinghai DailyThe third ethnic Traditional Tibetan Chess Performance and Competition was held in Northwest

Fu Zhongwang Photo: Courtesy of Yao JieThe second East Lake International Ecological Sculpture Biennale will kick off in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province,

Migrants stand on board the rescue ship Louise Michel, funded by British street artist Banksy, during a rescue operation by crew members of civil sea rescue shi

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A Chinese documentary film named City Dream will be released in cinemas on Friday. It

The Wonder Wheel at Coney Island, New York City on August 13 Photo: AFP

Summers in Coney Island usually ring with the sound of excited screams from roller coas

A nightly penguin parade live streamed from a deserted Australian park has become an online lockdown hit, with hundreds of thousands tuning in to watch the cute

Photo: Courtesy of the 10th Beijing International Film Festival
China may become the first country to see its film industry walk out of underneath the shadow o

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie Photo: AFP
The French translation of Agatha Christie's hit novel And Then There Were None will change its title to remove a

Promotional material for (clockwise from top) The Hovering Blade, Let Life Be Beautiful, Ping-Pong of China, The Big Band, Saohei and Hachi Photos: Courtesy of

The girl band Everglow Photo: VCG

Chinese company YUE HUA Entertainment responded on Thursday to a viral post showing that it had been issued a warning as an a

SHENYANG, April 1, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Korean War veterans attend a burial ceremony for Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPVA) soldiers who died in the Korean War

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Zhou Yan Photo: Courtesy of Yadi Media
A new show Way to Happiness debuted on Chinese streaming site Youku on Wednesday n

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A video featuring a group of children in China playing a cooperative basketball dribbling exercise has gone viral on Twitter, igniting

A man does some weeding on his rooftop garden in Montreal on August 9, 2007. Photo: AFPLufa farms, the first commercial greenhouse on a rooftop in the world Pho