After-school kids come home early, keen to fly kites while East Wind's spry.” This Chinese poem from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) indicates the long ...

At the age of 72, Mi Xingsheng has spent over four decades honing his skills in the art of kite making. His miniature kites, often no larger than a few centimeters, are crafted with precision in his ...

That large bird of prey soaring lazily above the motorway? In Britain, it's likely either a buzzard or a red kite. While both are increasingly common sights across UK skies, telling them apart is ...

People in China are expressing alarm at what looks like a familiar authoritarian turn in the United States, their longtime role model for democracy. By Li Yuan As the United States grapples with ...

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Capable of being as problematic as Japanese knotweed, spreading bamboo is best avoided. But, thankfully, there is a wide range of clumping (non-spreading) forms that won’t cause you – or your ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Local sport. Followed categories will be added to My News. Hulking 16-year-old Sio Kite, a 200cm tall and 140kg young star, has signed with French club Stade ...

Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging ...

A mountain resembling the head of a puppy has become a tourist destination along an ancient Chinese river. The mountain, dubbed "puppy mountain", sits in the city of Yichang in central China's ...

Liu Xiaoyan, an expert in "Beijing embroidery" and inheritor of the art form that has been recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of the nation, works in her Beijing studio on Jan 16.

Bamboo, a known sustainable construction material, should be incorporated into the National Building Code (NBC) of the Philippines for mainstream use, a civil engineer and bamboo advocate said. Engr.