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Exhibition on Chinese Spring Festival opens in Beijing

An exhibition showing 37 sets of cultural relics and over 120 contemporary paintings and calligraphy works opened at the National Museum of China on Thursday. With the theme of auspicious signs, the

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Disneyland apologizes to visitors impacted by power outage

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The controversial theme of next year's Met Gala has just been revealed

The annual fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute in New York is one of the most talked-about shows in the art calendar, while the launch party – a.k.a. the Met Gala – is one of the most glamorous red carpet events of the year.

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The controversial theme of next year's Met Gala has just been revealed

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S. Korea's largest urban VR-theme park opens in Incheon

SouthKorea'slargesturbanvirtualreality-themepark,MonsterVR,openeditsdoorstothepublicinIncheononThursday,thegovernmentsaid.Theparkislocatedonthe1,320squaremeters

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Disney says Shanghai park "tremendous success" with 11 million visits

The Walt Disney Company's chairman and CEO Bob Iger said Friday that its Shanghai theme park is a "tremendous success", logging more than 11 million visits in just a year.

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Disney says Shanghai park "tremendous success" with 11 million visits

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Universal Studios Hollywood celebrates Chinese Lunar New Year

​The Year of the Rooster gets a wake-up call from "Kung Fu Panda" when Po and Tigress make their first-ever appearance at the Universal Studio Hollywood's annual Lunar New Year celebration, from this Saturday to Feb.5.

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Inside the world's first Bollywood theme park

In Dubai, a city where more is always more and bigger is most certainly better, two brand new theme parks are vying for the hearts of visitors.

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Indian temple will be the world's tallest religious skyscraper

Work is underway on the world's tallest religious skyscraper: a 700-foot-tall Hindu temple in India.

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Disney: China's theme parks drive A-P growth

The theme park business in China saw its biggest event of the year on Thursday when the $5.5-billion Shanghai Disney Resort opened. It is Disney's sixth park worldwide and the largest in Asia, wowing both local and foreign tourists with exotic experiences and Chinese elements.

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Foreign media note Chinese tycoon's challenge to Disney

​China's real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group on Saturday opened the first of its ambitious theme park projects, seen by foreign media as a move to challenge Disney's monopoly.

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Tourism scare? In Japan and Taiwan, some locals bet on it

Groups of residents from remote mountainous areas in Japan and Taiwan planned to work together on projects to lure tourists by promoting local ghost stories, those involved on the Japanese side said.

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Wanda opens theme park to rival Disney

​China's Wanda Group on Saturday opened a 40-billion-yuan (6.1 billion U.S. dollar) theme park in Nanchang, capital of eastern Jiangxi Province, as it seeks to cash in on people's fast-growing appetite for leisure.

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Is China building too many theme parks?

Dozens of amusement and theme parks in various styles and motifs are springing up in China, giving rise to fears of an impending bubble in the property sector.