Fasting in the sense of not eating for a specific time upavasa or abstaining from specific substances during certain periods is a wellestablished part of all Hindu spiritual practices In the early tim ...

This Central Valley city is the largest in the region and serves as a gateway to not only Yosemite National Park but also ...

Enter a breathtaking alternate world where dark forces are at work, enjoy a spellbinding adventure featuring witchfinders and a young Isaac Newton, join a real-life explorer on a spectacular mission ...

Everybody is born as one single individual but by the time he is mature enough to participate in life he has become a crowd This is almost the case with everybody Become aware of itIf you just sit sil ...

Imagine waking up and looking out over a landscape so magical, it feels like you’ve stepped into a storybook. There’s ...

Highlights from the three collections of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy make up new Hong Kong Museum of Art ...

Hai Fan was a guerrilla fighter in the ranks of the Malayan Communist Party. His short story collection, Delicious Hunger, humanizes his comrades — and artfully portrays the tragedy of their struggle.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories claim that Shi’s Star Catalog, the oldest known star catalog in China, is actually the earliest known star ...

Thanks to International Museum Day, two major exhibitions spotlighting ancient Chinese and Syri-an civilizations are opening this month in Beijing, Ganzhou and Huzhou. Featuring hundreds of rare ...

A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, are returning to China after a handover ceremony at the US embassy on Friday, ending their ...

Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise. Some date back to the Tang dynasty (618–90 For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...