A man fastens a bamboo rope to a tree during the water-releasing ceremony at Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation project in Southwest China’s Sichuan province on Wednesday. The project was built in 256 BC by…
Category: Culture
PARIS, April 3 (Xinhua) — The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova has voiced concern about the risk posed by fighting around the world heritage site of Timbuktu in northern Mali. “I call on both the…
A mountain in Central China’s Henan province is witnessing how the local economy has changed the way it develops. Changshoushan, or Longevity Mountain, has been a tourist destination since 2009. Over 200,000 people have…
German Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass is in the international spotlight after labeling Israel a “threat to world peace” in his new poem. Germany and Israel have both responded by strongly criticizing the writer. In…
PARIS, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) — Two controversial ancient Chinese relics were auctioned on Wednesday night for 14 million euros (17.92 million U.S. dollars) each to anonymous telephone bidders at Christie’s sale of the collection of…
Are genetically modified foods making you sick and fat? Monsanto’s genetically modified creations have been pegged for causing a plethora of environmental and human harm, but are they also contributing to one of the country’s…
Which Means that It’s Something In the Environment Animals Are Getting Fatter, Too … We’ve extensively documented that toxic chemicals in our food, water and air our causing an epidemic of obesity … even in 6 month…
In a knowledge-driven global culture of enhanced human communications and proactive visions for sustainable futuristic co-existence between Man and the encompassed Universe and divergent civilizations, we the educators and learners are to exercise rational capacity…
Where do you locate yourself on the political spectrum? Are you liberal or conservative? On “the left”, “the right”, or perhaps you’re a bit of both (“moderate”). It is no secret that American mass culture…
In October of 1984, a few months after the release of George Orwell‘s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a fascinating letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley — a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision…