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.
Chicago earlier this week released a new 80-second tourism video, Chicago Epic. The president of the ad company co-producing the spot says it will rival the I Love New York campaigns.
A group of Asian-American students have filed a lawsuit against Ivy League schools' admission policies claiming they seek to set quotas on admitting Asian students.
After painstaking number crunching and deep calculation, Huang Jinzi, a PhD candidate at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, has determined that it takes 1,000 licks to finish off a lollipop that's 1 centimeter in diameter.
China likes its baijiu, which is becoming more popular around the world. A byproduct of that demand is a booming US export market for sorghum.
China's 1989 Law on the Protection of Wildlife — which is now online in English and available for the world to see — was created, it says, for the purpose of "protecting and saving the species of wildlife which are rare or near extinction; protecting, developing and rationally utilizing wildlife resources, and maintaining ecological balances."
A certain population in the US — young international students from China — has been expanding at a phenomenal pace in recent years. Often vulnerable, immature and still in the process of learning how to take care of themselves, these adolescents frequently require continual attention and help in many matters — especially when it comes to staying physically safe and emotionally adjusted.
Most people probably could find a buck or two in change if they look under their car seats, but $900?
On Tuesday morning, federal agents with the US Fish and Wildlife service entered a restaurant in St Cloud, Minnesota, and arrested Yiwei Zheng, 42, a philosophy professor at St Cloud State University.
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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