A copy editor and writer with China Daily USA in New York, Chris Davis is a graduate of the University of Virginia and served two years as a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in Kenya.
The African Wildlife Foundation is calling it "the largest ivory destruction event in history".
"The focus of my work is the profound consideration and the emotion of the ink," says Lan Zhenghui, one of China's leading contemporary artists.
The worldwide effort to save the magnificent African elephant from being butchered into extinction is a complex war with many fronts. While experts continually sound an urgent alarm that more has to be done and quicker, every little bit still helps.
Responding to an onslaught from conservation groups, the US Fish and Wildlife Service today said that Endangered Species Act protections may be warranted — emphasis on "may" — for seven species of pangolin, those other-worldly-looking armadillo-like mammals prized for their scales (and meat) and have the dubious distinction of being one of the most sought-after and poached wild animals in the world.
"One day we will play in the major leagues," a young girl in a catcher's vest says into the camera. What follows are women in dozens of languages and lands delivering similar sentiments.
One of the best of many great lines in the movie My Cousin Vinny comes when New Yorkers Vinny Gambini and his girlfriend Mona Lisa Vito first arrive in the small rural Alabama town where the story takes place. Looking around at a setting that makes Mayberry RFD look like a metropolis, Mona Lisa says: "I bet they don't got Chinese here."
As the old saw goes: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
Writing in The Diplomat, an e-mag covering politics and culture in the Asia-Pacific region, Robert Farley says it is high time for a Hollywood movie depicting and celebrating Sino-US cooperation during World War II.
An editor and writer at China Daily USA in New York, William Hennelly is a print and digital media veteran. He previously was managing editor of TheStreet.com financial news website in New York, and has worked at daily newspapers in New Jersey. Hennelly is a journalism graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
General manager of China Daily USA's San Francisco bureau. Based in the Bay Area, she covers a wide range of topics including corporate news, Silicon Valley innovation, US-China cooperation in various forms and profiles of interesting personalities, as well as overseeing office operations.
Chen Weihua is the Chief Washington Correspondent of China Daily and Deputy Editor of China Daily USA. He is also a columnist, with a particular focus on US politics and US-China relations.
US President Donald Trump visits China
