Bringing sight and color to RP patients with Chinese Medicine
[2017-02-25 07:11]Retinitis Pigmentosa, believed to be an incurable disease with Western Medicine Treatment, but traditional Chinese Medicine Therapies offered a new hope for the successful treatment of RP patients.
Financiers turned fashionistas get creative in New York
[2017-02-25 07:10]His small workshop in a friend's house in industrial Brooklyn is a far cry from the glass skyscraper on Madison Avenue where he worked as an investment banker. But Eric Steffen is happy.
In Benin, descendants of slaves on a voodoo pilgrimage
[2017-02-04 10:18]In a town once the muster point for the slave trade, the scions of forced bondage search for themselves through a folkloric festival.
Naming babies with 'Chinese characteristics'
[2017-02-04 09:50]New born babies bring joy, of course, but also troubles with how to name them. Names matter, Chinese agree, and that is why parents go to great lengths to devise auspicious and fitting names for their children.
Phones and the city
[2017-02-04 07:27]From Apple to Android, smartphones are ubiquitous. Reuters photographer Stefan Wermuth spent time documenting Londoners' public yet intimate relationships with their phones.
It's all good: Any exercise cuts risk of death, study finds
[2017-02-04 09:32]Weekend warriors, take a victory lap. People who pack their workouts into one or two sessions a week lower their risk of dying over roughly the next decade nearly as much as people who exercise more often, new research suggests.
Ethnic Yi embroidery caters to modern tastes
[2017-02-04 09:24]It has been a long journey for Wang Zonghui, who now helps more than 200 women make a living using their needlework skills.
Returning to her jazz roots
[2017-01-14 07:19]When Chinese-American singer-songwriter Shunza launched her debut self-titled Mandarin album in 1997, her wide vocal range and velvet voice soon gained her a large fan base in China.
China's young round out their education at summer camp
[2017-01-07 06:47]Zhao Qing fondly reflects on her summer camp at UWC (United World College) Changshu, in south China. She cherishes "the sense of belonging and sense of being herself" she gained at the two-week camp.
The testing struggles of American teens
[2016-12-17 10:22]Math scores drop while science and reading remains flat.
Unique effort to help the poor and special needs kids
[2016-12-17 10:16]China today has about 55 million people living in deprived areas in the country's remote mountainous areas, besides tens of millions of families who struggle to care for children with special needs.
Museum dedicated to natural landscape art opens in Fuyang
[2016-12-17 09:38]The Gongwang Art Museum in Fuyang, a district under Hangzhou city, celebrated its grand opening on in September with an exhibition featuring Chinese landscape art.
