Topic: China
Chinese web users have flooded a wildlife park with pleas for an amorous male sheep and female deer to be allowed to stay together after their mating habits raised concerns.Staff at the wildlife park turned to the country's half a billion web ...
China and France have agreed a high-level deal for Beijing to lend two giant pandas to a French zoo for 10 years starting from early 2012, the zoo's director said on Wednesday.The pair will be the first pandas sent to France since ...
Forget the "Made in China" snow globes packed with a miniature White House or cheap T-shirts, mugs and dog tags: a new museum gift shop is intent on selling only items that are made in the USA.After Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders complained ...
In a packed Beijing auction room, an anonymous buyer shelled out a staggering 32.3 million yuan ($5 million) for a simple wooden bed made of huanghuali, the rarest of exotic woods.A pair of yoke-back armchairs, also part of an 80 piece collection ...
Louis Vuitton may have lost prime advertising space in China when its giant suitcase was torn down in Shanghai, but it is now wooing customers in the hallowed halls of the national museum in Beijing.The Louis Vuitton Voyages exhibition, marking the French ...
US museums are facing delicate choices as they strive to meet a growing interest in China, cooperating with counterparts across the Pacific despite alarm over the detention of top artist Ai Weiwei.Directors of museums across the United States said in interviews that ...
The Forbidden City, China's ancient imperial palace museum, is to loan more than 100 works to the Louvre in Paris, some of which have never left China.The group of about 130 artefacts includes arms, clothing, bronzes, pieces of jade, lacquerware, enamels, seals, ...
Hackers based in China have disrupted an online petition signed by nearly 100,000 people which urges Beijing to free outspoken artist Ai Weiwei, the website operator said Wednesday.Heads of major museums around the world had spearheaded the petition seeking the release of ...
Thousands of visitors flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo Friday to catch a first glimpse of a pair of pandas on loan from China, in a welcome respite from the gloom over last month's earthquake and tsunami.The fluffy animals, who arrived at the ...
Panda fever gripped Japan on Monday as two of the cuddly creatures headed to the nation from China, with Tokyo zoo eyeing a visitor boom and the government predicting smoother ties with Beijing.Panda flags lined streets near the capital's Ueno Zoo, which ...
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