Board game, clay tablets and building remains shed light on the ancient city of Qabra and its cultural identity.

Vibrant snake lanterns with cartoonish features are crafted in China, symbolising good luck and challenging traditional snake ...

The legend of the 12 animals in Chinese New Year comes from a poem about mythical creatures aiding spring's arrival ...

Chinese New Year, AKA the Spring Festival, is a commemoration of the new lunar calendar, and is celebrated in many South ...

Chinese communities will begin celebrating Lunar New Year on Jan. 29. Why is Lunar New Year celebrated? What are the ...

Befitting its ancient lineage, the citrus genus has taken on symbolic significance in different religions around the world. In China, pomelos are traditionally eaten during the mid-autumn festival ...

Emma Reynolds, who formerly served as the treasurer for the APPG on China, has been appointed as the Treasury’s new City minister. Until last year’s election, she served as managing director ...

This included citizens, women, children, metics (resident foreigners), and slaves. Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of ancient Greece, known for the first democracy, the great ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China on Friday announced that its economic growth rate for 2024 was in line with the target set by a government beset by the threat of fresh U.S. tariffs, an enduring ...

Rural China, where the preference for male offspring was especially strong and two children were still ostensibly allowed, became the focus of government efforts, with women forced to present ...

16, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) Elderly people with their purchased goods rest as people shop at a New Year bazaar set up for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing on Jan. 13, 2025. (AP ...

In 2015, China announced an end to its decades-long one-child policy, allowing couples to have two children, then increased that to three children in 2021. But birth rates have continued to drop ...