A Danish prince haunted by his father's ghost. A delusional Spanish knight jousting with windmills. A Chinese beauty falling into an enchanted dream next to a Peony Pavilion.
It takes about 20 Chinese parents, 11 elementary schools throughout the Bay Area and a small army of volunteers to stage the series of celebrations planned for the upcoming Chinese New Year, or the Lunar New Year, which will fall on Jan 28.
Neutrinos. They're the most numerous particles in the universe, so small they’re called "ghosts" and they zip through our bodies by the thousands of trillions per second. Scientists are even beginning to wonder if neutrinos are the reason matter exists in the first place.
The news that Ed Lee was reelected mayor of San Francisco on Nov 3 came as no surprise to people in the Bay Area.
The meeting on Nov 7 between leaders from two sides of the Taiwan Straits has been regarded as not only significant to the cross-Straits relations but also to China-US relations.
Looking past this year's volatility in China's stock market, a Boston financial company has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that invests in companies on the Chinese mainland.
The conviction of a Los Angeles-area Chinese-American doctor on second-degree murder charges on Friday serves as a wake-up call to not only medical and legal professionals, but also to parents of adolescent children.
It never hurts to have a rich guy in your corner. For elephants, which are being slaughtered at the rate of 96 a day (or one every 15 minutes around the clock), that would be Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, one of the richest guys in the world.
"Chinese admiral threatens war with the United States," declared Wolf Blitzer of CNN on Thursday, shortly after a video teleconference between People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Commander Wu Shengli and his US counterpart, John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations.
Carnival Cruise Line is adding to the lineup of cruise ships docking in China, a market that shows no signs of letting up.
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.
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.