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Dr. Sun Yat Sen Museum Hong Kong

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Museum

Museums in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Macau tell the story of Dr. Sun Yat Sen - The Father of China

China MaryLou Driedger

Go to the movies with Celeste...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

China / Vietnam / Thailand Celeste Heiter

Filipino maids in outside the Hong Kong Law Courts Building.

Maids Day Off in Hong Kong

Sunday is maid's day off in Hong Kong and they congregate in groups all over the city.

China MaryLou Driedger

Shop signs reveal the growing Vietnamese presence in Toronto's Chinatown.

Chinatown Sextet - Chinatowns in the Greater Toronto Area - 1

Chinatowns in the Greater Toronto Area

China Robert Tompkins

Hong Kong cemeteries have high rise apartments for the dead.

High Rise Apartments for the Dead

Not only the living but also the dead are housed in high rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong. W...

China MaryLou Driedger

The Big Buddha on Hong Kong's Lantau island. It is the world's largest seated outdoor Buddha.

Look for the Big Buddha when Landing in Hong Kong

Flying into Hong Kong? Then don't forget to look for the giant bronze Buddha. He sits cross-legge...

China Steven K. Bailey

Shanghai Old Street, Shanghai, China.

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China / Vietnam / Malaysia ThingsAsian

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering ...

China / Indonesia / Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Giving red packets - a guide to surviving Chinese New Year Ah, the Chinese New Year. Celebrated f...

China Blue Lam

Book Review: Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

Long revered as a classic work of Chinese literature, Six Records of a Floating Life is the autob...

China Celeste Heiter

Film review: Seven Years in Tibet

Based on a true story, the 1997 Jean-Jacques Annaud film stars Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer, an A...

China Celeste Heiter

Zhao Hitches a Ride to Three Gorges in 'Getting Home'

On the Edge of Our Seats at Cinequest 18

Mystery and suspense take on many forms in the seven Asian entries in San Jose's 18th annual Cine...

China / Japan / Nepal Celeste Heiter

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China's Cave Dwellers

YANAN, China, June 22, 2005 - While environmentalists in the West are still scratching their head...

China AFP/Verna Yu

China tries various precipitation enhancement technologies: on a hill in the suburb of Beijing, an old anti-aircraft gun is rigged to shoot cannisters of silver iodine into the clouds to make rain.<br

Rainmaking in China

BEIJING, June 21, 2004 - On an overcast day in the Fragrant Hills Park in western Beijing the boo...

China AFP

Bruce Lee legend remains strong 30 years after his death

In 1959, a diminutive, bespectacled kid swapped the alleys of Hong Kong for the streets of San Fr...

China AFP/Alan Low

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The Mountain Trails

Part I – Embarking on an unfamiliar territory… Adventure really did not begin ...

China / Afghanistan / Bhutan Nandini Raybaruah

All's well that ends well

Once Burned, Twice Sly

Some thing's not adding up here.

China / Thailand Jack VanNoord

My students and I volunteered for a Hong Kong Flag Day.

Saturday is Flag Day in Hong Kong

The city of Hong Kong has devised a sensible way to collect money for charity.

China MaryLou Driedger

To The Chinese, Jade Is The Elixir Of Life - The Stone Of Immortality

The first time I was exposed to the fascinating world of jade on a large scale was in Malacca, Ma...

China / Singapore / Taiwan Habeeb Salloum

The Peking Opera: An Actor Prepares

The Traditional Peking Opera: An Actor Prepares

The setting for the traditional Peking Opera is simple and bare. B...

China Cheryl McGinniss

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