US real estate market gets boon

When Chris Cooper and his wife heard that a house next door to their home in San Mateo was for sale, they decided to take a look at it on its pre-opening day.

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Ho Manli, made a keynote speech in San Francisco on a Sunday symposium for her father Dr Ho Feng-shan, themed the Man and His Spirit.

Yao Ming "ambassador" talks about diplomacy

He was an unexpected speaker to talk about diplomacy at the Brookings Institution, and at 7-foot-6-inches, he is certainly the tallest speaker ever to speak at the Washington-based think tank.

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At the exhibition The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China's Emperors at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Wednesday, two visitors take pictures of The Imperial Banquet at the Pavilion of Purple Brightness scroll, which depicts the 1761 celebration of the completion of renovations of the pavilion.

Jay Xu: Museum head practices art of giving

A landmark exhibit in 1983- Treasures from the Shanghai Museum: 6000 years of Chinese Art - opened at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco which changed a young man's destiny in China.

Stephen Orlins: A life defined, enriched by China

Stephen A. Orlins was one of the first few Americans who traveled to China shortly after the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1979. Since then his visits became more and more frequent and China - as he puts it - came to "define" his life.

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Green Snake premieres in DC; an enchanting mystery

If finding true love isn't already complicated enough, doing so in defiance of the laws of nature can only lead to more loss - or is it more gain?

Jinan and Sacramento focus on youth as sister cities since 1984

Unlike many other cities attending the US-China Sister Cities Conference being held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, Jinan, the capital of East China's Shandong province, was one of the few cities that set up a booth there to promote its rich culture and history.