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Startalk sponsored program led by Duarte Silva of Stanford, achieved amazing results this summer utilizing ipads and apps from Better Chinese (www.betterchinese.com).  New students to Chinese, spent 6 hours a day for one month learning a new language.  Th…

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Miami chefs hoping to brush up on authentic Chinese cuisines and students interested in polishing their Mandarin language skills will soon have that chance at Miami Dade College. The school is the latest site for The Confucius Institute, a project run by …

The leaders of this nation have come out with a new list of songs not to be played on the television or radio, calling it an issue of “National Cultural Security”.

This generation has recovered from the modern shock of discovering the vastness of the universe The fact we are a speck of dust hanging in the middle of fifty thousand football fields means nothing Why does that change anything?

When Jin passed through the long passage, he noticed that he could not see light from the village behind him when he turned his head back to look. A current seemed to propel his boat quickly through the tunnel, and he shot out the other side with a splash…

In these days of increasing communication between our two perspectives, and the enormous social implications of these exchanges, music has become the most important ambassador between our cultures. Music holds the keys to the most effective cultural excha…

I wandered into a Buddhist Temple in the famous water town Zhujiajiao in the Qingpu district of Shanghai municipality. People were charged admission to the main temple grounds, a fee of 10Y, but in the annex worshippers got a freebe. Before paying the fee…

Thousands of people took part in the religious rite of Ashura, the holiest of the Shiite religious calendar, marking the death of Imam Hussein in 680 AD, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.

Muharram, the first month of Islamic calendar, is observed around the world for ten days.

Santa waves as his float drives by during the Santa Claus pre-Christmas Parade in downtown Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 4, 2011. The eighth annual tour attracted 3,500 participants and 200 volunteers.

Photo taken on Dec. 4, 2011 shows a man-shaped bronze lamp of Eastern Han Dynasty (25 A.D.-220 A.D.) at the national treasure collection exhibition held at Yunnan Provincial Museum in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province.

China will spend 150 million yuan (23.6 mln U.S. dollars) to help 5,000 college teachers from inland regions pursue advanced studies during the 2011-2015 period, the Ministry of Education said in a statement Monday.

People watch the unveiled 58-meter-high Christmas tree, which has 500 bulbs and a total length of 12,000 meters of LED light string, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Dec. 5.

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.

About 13,700 Chinese Muslims have returned home following the end of this year's pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as the last chartered plane landed in Beijing International Airport on Sunday.

The 17th China Model Contest concluded here on Saturday. Contestants Cai Hao and Hu Nan won the champion titles out of 50 participants in the final round.

A large Chinese book fair opened Saturday in the fourth largest U.S. city of Houston, featuring about 10,000 Chinese books and exposing local readers to colorful Chinese culture as well as the thoughts of China's ancient educator Confucius.