Chamber of Youth

Regarded as “the Son of Music in Cincinnati”, the Starling Chamber Orchestra of Cincinnati Music Institute is in China for the first time, to give a concert in Beijin The members of this orchestra are selected from all over the world.

Friendly ties

100 students from Taipei arrived in Beijing Monday, to the warm welcome of 100 families from Suibo’an primary school, Chunyu primary school and Dingxiang primary school. Mao Shiping (left), from Taiwan countries and regions, learns the art of dumpling making at the home of a new friend.

Samba the Village

Sunday afternoon saw a group of Brazilian men’s soccer players singing and dancing passionately under the summer sunshine. The dancers have just returned from the training field.

Juggling Three Balls

Many of the athletes may be newcomers to China and its marvels. Not so for Nantakan Petchplay, a volleyball player from Thailand, who is now on her fifth visit to China, but first trip to Beijing.

I’m from Urumqi,… Sierra Leone

It was a normal day in the village as reporters searched high and low for those hidden away little anecdotes. The question was the unremarkable phrase foreign learners of English pick up in their first lesson, “Excuse me, where are you from?”

Brazilians Go native… Almost

“Do we need a special reason to do that? We just want to, it makes us feel good!” This was the answer Aloisio Maia De Freitas Junior, a 21-year-old soccer player from Brazil, gave when he s questioned on why on earth he would want to jump around and sing on a Sunday morning, when most of us are groggily reaching for the nearest source of caffeine.