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Culture
Massive Tomb Complex Unearthed in Beijing
A massive tomb complex has unearthed in a southwest suburb in Beijing, reported by Beijing Institute of Cultural Heritage on Monday this week. The 70 hectare archeological site consists of 129 tombs built over 1,100 years of the East Han Dynasty (25-220) of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Liao (907-1125).…
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Enjoy Lynette Kucsma’s 3D Food Printer
Lynette Kucsma wants to sell her “Foodini”-the first product by Natural Machines, Kucsma’s company. It is an automated machine that creates homemade meals faster and more efficiently than human hands. Natural Machines is marketing the Foodini as a 3D food printer. “When people first heard about microwaves they didn’t understand…
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Local Chinese Campaigners Call for Protect Traditional Villages and Resist Urbanization
Over the past 10 years, there were about 900,000 natural villages have disappeared in china. A famed writer Feng Jicai predicts “The situation is becoming more serious than anticipated” on Wednesday. Nowadays, many campaigners for the protection of villages same as Feng are concerned by their rapid decline having…
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South Asia
Indian Actress rides wave of success
Anushka Sharma was born in 1988 in Ayodhya and raised in Bangalore. Influenced by her father who served as an army officer, she was educated at the Army School and later got education from the Mount Carmel College. Later, she moved to Mumbai for her modelling career. She began her…
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Society
Traditions for Good Fortune center Chinese ‘Spring Festival’
The year 2014 has ended and a new year is coming. As Western countries celebrate Christmas with excitements, China similarly celebrates the Spring Festival similar with the Korean new year’s day. As Western countries get excited at the beginning of December preparing for Christmas, China also gets excited for the…
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East Asia
Will 2014, Year of ‘Senior Movies’ influence the Korean Movie Industry?
The movie industry in the year 2014 was filled with ‘senior movies’: movies with themes that specifically target the elderly population. Indeed, several movies such as Miss Granny and Ode to My Father received sensational reviews with their interesting topic, dealing with an issue that is worth looking but has…
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West Asia
Middle East Film and Comic Con 2015 Targeting Attendance of over 50,000 Fans
Announce William Shatner as headline guest alongside new strategic partners for 2015 Middle East, February 9 2015: The Middle East Film and Comic Con (www.mefcc.com) continues to grow significantly with a target of over 50,000 visitors for the 2015 show and an additional 35% of space booked at the Dubai…
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South Asia
Your Daily Fix at A Dhaba
Tea is the most popular beverage in Pakistan. There are small restaurants which specifically serve tea only, vernacularly called ‘dhabas’. You can find dhabas of varying sizes everywhere around the country. Even while travelling by road, dhabas can be spotted on highways and suburbs. People of all ages have tea…
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South Asia
Sculpting at Hala: Glory of Sindh
Hala is a city in Pakistan known for its rich Sindhi culture and history but most of all, it is known for its beautiful handicrafts which are popular all over the country for decoration and as souvenirs, oftentimes. Once, handicrafts were a major source of income for the people of…
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South Asia
Storytelling in Korean and Sindhi Folktales
Folk tales may be specific to a region but they have a certain universality to them. The old myths and folktales of various cultures seem to have a format. Like a screenwriter formats a screenplay or a designer outlines an illustration, similarly, the folktales have a definite format to which…
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