Huishan clay figurines, a traditional craft originating in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in East China, typically depict characters ...

To cater to modern tastes and customer demands, Luo has introduced innovative elements into her designs. She incorporates ...

A battle of beetles has won this contest celebrating close-up, macro, and micro photography revealing amazing hidden wonders ...

The Yellow River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the Bohai Sea in China, is so called because of the color lent ...

Thousands of years later, each lunar year is still said to possess certain characteristics of its animal namesake, and those ...

Firecrackers, parades and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and farther afield.

Wisps and clouds of smoke rose into the air at Buddhist and Daoist temples around Asia on Wednesday as people lit incense to ...

[Photo/Agencies] SEOUL - The black box of an airplane that crashed in South Korea's southwestern airport late last month stopped recording just a minute after the warning of bird strike ...

BEIJING -- China's meteorological authority renewed a yellow alert for a cold wave on Saturday, as most parts of the country will see temperatures plunge by 8-12 degrees Celsius over the next ...

Radiated and spider tortoises are critically endangered in Madagascar because of habitat destruction and poaching. They are eaten, but also illegally trafficked to be sold as pets because of the ...

The 12,000 radiated and spider tortoises that were housed at ... trafficked to be sold as pets because of the striking yellow and black markings on their shells, Razafimamonjiraibe said.