The sundial will power the park, provide shade and joy in the East End. The ribbon cutting will be in less than two years, funded by private donations.

It's been spotted on the runways of Bode, Fforme, Kallmeyer and Heirlome, in Chanel boutiques, and swinging from A-listers' ...

Chinese and nomadic cultures along the ancient Silk Road—trading routes stretching 5,000 miles from the Mediterranean Sea to China. A knife handle embossed with an image of a Siberian bear ...

Toilet paper has a proud tradition that dates back to Ancient China. When some people buy toilet ... Julien Coyne of Mojoptix designed a digital sundial you can print on your own.

In ancient Egypt, lead-based eye make-up was used ... comfortable by the 20th century but women’s perms were unsafe. In China, foot-binding lasted into our own time. (Jackie pointed out that ...

The ancient Chinese calligraphic scroll by Rao Jie contains an inscription by Emperor Qianlong and his imperial seal.

I had minor surgery last week to remove a lipoma, which had quietly made a home for itself on my right shoulder several years ago. Embedded just beneath the skin like one half of a ping pong ball ...

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

China and beyond. Most of the Malaysians I know have never visited Perlis. The mostly agricultural state in the far north of the Malay Peninsula shares a land border with Thailand and is better ...

Three of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s favourite Chinese classical quotes were selected for a special broadcast today, April 17, to celebrate Xi’s two-day visit to Cambodia. Xi landed at Phnom Penh ...