Two days before the Beauty of China, Show the World concert would debut in New York, a young Italian conductor, a 60-piece American orchestra and a 74-year-old Chinese pianist were working out their grooves.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday told the United Nations General Assembly that all US troops had left Iraq, and next year, an international coalition will end its war in Afghanistan, having achieved its mission of dismantling the core of al-Qaida that attacked the US on Sep 11, 2001.
The stamp depicts the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe performing the Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance.
The world's second-largest economy is surpassing others in many areas, including the use of the Internet.
A herd of grazing goats is useful for clearing a field of brush, or, in the case of New York's Chinatown, a fleet of "Billy Goats" can go miles to help suck up street litter.
More than 800 medical practitioners from all over the world have vowed to promote co-operation between Eastern and Western medicine at the 10th World Congress of Chinese Medicine.
Chinese publishers who want to target the 50 million Chinese who live abroad have signed an agreement to publish Chinese books into the global market.
A few decades ago, when "going global" was the new business mantra, Amway saw that if it wanted to be in commerce in another country, it really had to be in commerce around the world. They went outside the US, where most sales were, to now where they do 90 percent of their business outside the US in more than 100 countries and territories on every continent but Antarctica. Amway has 21,000 employees and more than 3 million distributors who make Amway's products - mainly cosmetics, nutritional supplements, and home goods - available to over 70 percent of the world's population.
Since Jeff Leung Chin Fung arrived in June for an arts residency in New York, he has seen the gay pride parade, witnessed the Fourth of July fireworks, lain in Prospect Park and enjoyed reading in the Brooklyn Public Library.
China's Ministry of Education has finally given the thumbs-up to a long awaited plan by North Carolina-based Duke University to open a joint venture campus in Kunshan, Jiangsu province next year.
In 1908, the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler wrote "The Song of the Earth," an orchestral piece inspired by his reading of Hans Bethge's then recently published volume of translated Tang Dynasty-era Chinese poetry, "The Chinese Flute."
The pilot version of a new accounting tool to track and measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Chinese cities has been launched in Beijing.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry
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