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.
China now has the second-largest number of acres devoted to vineyards in the world, nearly 2 million acres, the OIV said.
The letter accused the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of questioning the "established history" of the comfort women system and trying to eliminate references to it in school textbooks.
Bilateral exchanges across the board, plus relaxed immigration policies between the world's two largest economies, have generated enormous business opportunities for many industries. And aviation is certainly one of them.
David Lin, a training coordinator for the grueling physical test required of Fire Department of New York prospects, said Asian candidates would often ask him if there was an FDNY society that represented their heritage.
Asian Americans are often depicted in American media as socio-economically advanced but politically petrified, introverted and incompetent public speakers.
The demand for California almonds from places like China is running smack into the drought-plagued state's water politics.
Dave Pomerantz, 58, manages a software development group outside of Boston. He has a bachelor's in computer science from Princeton and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
China's top leaders in recent years have been steering people onto a course of innovation-driven growth and development, encouraging people to fully realize the importance of science, technology and new ideas.
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.
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