TUBAN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia has urged officials to stand up to mob pressure after Muslim and nationalist protesters called for a 30-metre-tall (100-ft-) statue of a Chinese deity erected in ...
Two statues of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu boarding Xiamen Airlines flight MF881 departfrom Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport on March 29. Photo: Chinanews. com Two statues of the Chinese sea ...
The Asian community in King County, Washington, recently celebrated the proclamation of Mazu Day in King County on Sept. 9 and the moving forward of the plan to build a park dedicated to the Chinese ...
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China is renowned for building stupidly-large statues, but it’s really outdone itself with the latest monument to revered general turned war-god of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Guan Yu. It’s not the ...
Two more local schools have followed suit a day after the University of Hong Kong dismantled a statue commemorating victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The Chinese University of Hong Kong ...
HONG KONG — A set of 1,400-year-old Buddha statues in southwest China was damaged by villagers who painted them with bright colors to “redeem a wish to the god,” officials said. Located in rural ...
A Chinese sailor has been left to ponder the power of coincidence after pure chance allocated him a seat beside a sea deity on a domestic mainland flight earlier this month. On boarding a plane bound ...
Some say that every story's already been written, that all art is derivative. Maybe that's why this elderly woman apparently mistook a statue of a video game character for a Chinese general (who's ...