If it rains heavily on Saturday night, some elderly Chinese will say it is because Zhinu, or the Weaving Maid, is crying on the day she met her husband Niulang, or the Cowherd, on the Milky Way.
Sigourney Weaver will receive the 2016 Donostia Award for career achievement at the 64th San Sebastian Festival, the Festival announced through a press release on Tuesday.
Over 700 performers participated in the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Carnival on Sunday with a grand parade along the Princes Street and colorful performances at street gardens.
Chinese food company Wufangzhai in east China's Zhejiang Province is collaborating with Walt Disney Co. to produce snacks branded with Disney cartoon characters for Dragon Boat Festival.
Woody Allen's new film opens the festival in France, amid heightened security
The 69th Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) officially kicked off Wednesday evening in the southern French sea resort of Cannes.
The Miao Sisters Festival, a traditional festival of the Miao ethnic group, was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.
With great verve and passion, Chinese people are celebrating Lantern Festival in both traditional or trendy ways, despite the gloom of smog and economic slowdown.
The documentary "Fire at Sea" directed by Gianfranco Rosi won the Golden Bear for the Best Film in the 66th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday.
As Chinese at home and abroad are celebrating the Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, people around the globe also take it as an opportunity to learn more about the Chinese culture and tradition.
The Spring Festival traditionally is the most important time of the year for family reunion, but as China has become prosperous, an increasing number of wealthy Chinese are opting to travel abroad, which translates into big business for global retailers.
With over 30,000 visitors expected every day, celebration of Chinese Spring Festival has brought vitality to Nanjing town, the second largest Chinatown in Japan, as well as economic benefits to the region.
Big data on travel patterns shows that while many people are leaving metropolises for family reunions during the Spring Festival travel rush this year, some will be traveling in the reverse direction for the same reason.
High-speed trains with comfort, Starbucks coffee onboard, free WIFI in stations, and phone apps for ticket purchase. As the Spring Festival travel rush kicked off on Sunday, hundreds of millions of Chinese found that their journeys for holiday homecomings have become much smoother and faster.
Designing and carving out elaborate pieces, artists from around the world are competing in an ice sculpture contest this week as part of China's annual Ice and Snow Festival.
Tacky wigs and terrible American accents have donned Sydney's Central Station for the annual migration to the Parks Elvis festival in celebration of the life of 'the king.'
It has been an eventful year for the creative industry, what with a burst of arts and literary festivals which kept Malaysians busy, month after month. From the hip Cooler Lumpur Festival and the month-long George Town Festival to the Kuala Lumpur International Arts Festival (KLIAF) and the recently concluded Other Festival (in Ipoh), there has been much to explore in terms of arts.
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