October 29, 1929 was “Black Tuesday”, the day the New York Stock Market crashed. On June 17, 1930, U.S. President Herbert Hoover passed the Hawley-Smoot Act, imposing tariffs on 20,000 ...

Founded in 1962, The Australian Ballet is a major international ballet company and has 79 dancers in total. It has toured China eight times already, the last tour was in 2015, but it still has not ...

“I export 80 per cent of my output to the United States. What am I going to do?” Liang Lin manages a shoe factory in Foshan. “I cannot afford to pay my workers, so I have let most of them go ...

“After I surrendered to the Ukrainians, the Russians dropped on us an explosive with gas. I started to breathe it and thought I was going to die. I lost consciousness. Then a Ukrainian soldier ...

The Western world, including half of the population in the United States, are in a state of shock and disbelief at President Donald Trump, who took office just two months ago. He is signing ...

In 19th century Hong Kong, families abandoned thousands of girls whom they could not or would not bring up. They faced death, disease, a life of domestic service or prostitution. But the Sisters ...

Hong Kong Ballet premiered last weekend a two-act ballet “Frida” by the Belgian-Colombian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Her last creation for the company in 2023 - “Coco Chanel ...