Dessert

Natural snow does indeed exist in China – as far as the eye can see. This magnificent shot was taken at the autonomous region of Ningxia. But the Winter Olympics will be held in dry Beijing. On a lot of artificial snow.

Is it the Great Wall of China? Or a snowboard track? If the Games are being held in Beijing, then the sports facilities should also look like its landmarks – especially since foreign visitors are not allowed to leave the Olympic bubble to see the real wall anyway.

The Olympic Torch is on its way through the sports venues of the Beijing Games. On Wednesday morning, in sunny and cold temperatures, Vice Premier Han Zheng handed over the torch in the Beijing Olympic Park to a true pioneer of Chinese winter sports: Luo Zhihuan, now 80 years old, was a speed skater in […]

The tiger year has also reached the underwater: Here, female artists perform a mermaid dance at the aquarium in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province, to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

It is extremely tacky, but somehow also gorgeous and certainly a stunning display of show television. This year’s big gala for the Spring Festival by state broadcaster CCTV’s once again had it all: snappy pop songs, strapping soldiers, stern socialists, corny voices, and many, many wacky sketches. As always, ethnic minorities in traditional costumes, daredevil […]

The Guangzhou Safari Park has presented two tiger cubs. The white twin tigers Meilang and Meimei were born just over a month ago and have now been presented to the public. Just in time for the Year of the Tiger, whose beginning will be celebrated in China next week. For the two small felines, however, […]

Is everything already decorated for the Year of the Tiger? There are still a lot of red and gold trinkets left in Bangkok’s Chinatown for the Chinese New Year, which begins on February 1st. Large celebrations, as is usually the case around the Chinese holidays in the Thai capital, have been canceled due to the […]

The end of the holiday season for millions of people in China. This year, the Chinese New Year holiday and travel season lasted from January 28th to March 8th. Officials estimate that about 870 million trips were made in this pandemic year. That would be about 41 percent of last year’s trips and 70 percent […]