Hong Kong and the mainland have now fully resumed cross-border personnel exchanges. All ports are reopened for travel and business activities now. With a large number of mainland tourists coming to Hong Kong, local people noticed that the number of different kinds of beggars seen on the streets had also increased. However, one mainland woman ...
China is a nation of etiquette. From the ancient people to the present, many rules have been handed down from generation to generation. These rules cannot be forgotten because they often contain how to be a proper person and deal with things correctly. For Chinese, there are particular rules that reflect not only the wisdom of life, ...
An Eastern European Christmas I was fortunate or unfortunate, due to my circumstances, to jump through three distinct cultures to which I tried to conform. First, born on the last day of World War II into a socialist system as it was manifesting in Eastern Europe. Second, I spent my childhood in a community of ...
Clancy is a Great Dane American Bulldog mix and only a young dog about 90cm tall with short white fur and a dark brown patch of hair covering one eye. My brother introduced me to Clancy in his backyard. I was a bit scared as I thought the breed of dog might be too aggressive. ...
A traditional design using the theme, time on porcelain at the APAT exhibition 2022. Image by Trisha Haddock
James H. White has brought to life a heart-touching song that raises awareness of today’s most significant ongoing genocide. The song They Were The Ones was released on July 20, 2022, in line with the ban on Falun Gong that the former Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin started on July 20, 1999. One hundred million ...
Canadian filmmaker Jason Loftus’ award-winning animated documentary Eternal Spring recently made its debut in Melbourne, Australia, where it played in packed theaters at the 8th Annual Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. After the initial shows sold out, the festival added encore screenings to its line-up. Set in the northeastern city of Changchun in China’s Jilin Province, Eternal ...
A silo is a gigantic storage container that keeps grain fresh and clean before transportation. Prior to the construction of silos in Australia, wheat was kept in hessian bags and they were loaded onto rail wagons. When quantities of bagged wheat exceeded the limit of the wagon and there was no more room, the bags were ...
The woods surrounding my place in Australia have an abundance of different varieties of eucalyptus trees and the European fruit and ornamental trees that we grow on the property seem to invite many different species of native birds into the yard. It’s a chance to interact and become close to some of the friendly birds ...
I have many heartwarming childhood Christmas memories from Australia. As a child, my role in our family was to set up the Christmas tree, which was an artificial one. The cardboard box the tree was kept in always had an old musky smell about it. Each year, I reminisced about many past Christmases as I assembled the tree. The tree was decorated with tinsel and handmade decorations, some of which ...
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