CAPE TOWN - South Africans are ready to celebrate the 95th birthday of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela who has been hospitalized for more than three weeks for a recurring lung infection, President Jacob Zuma said. Zuma said Mandela is still critical but stable in a Pretoria hospital where he was admitted on June 8. We remind all South Africans to begin planning for Madiba's birthday on the 18th of July. We must all be able to do something good for humanity on this day, in tribute to our former President, said Zuma. Zuma thanked all South Africans for keeping the former president and his fam..
Former US ambassador Nicholas Platt, who facilitated the orchestra's 1973 tour, accompanied the group this month to give his presentation, China: Then and Now, with footage of Nixon's historic trip, as well as read from his memoir China Boys and lead a discussion on current conditions in China. Hamilton said the orchestra will meet in the next few weeks to discuss what worked from the trip, what didn't work and what could be better. The tour marked the first time a professional US orchestra performed in Hangzhou. Hamilton hopes the orchestra will play in another new city in the 2014 residency ..
By CAROLINE BERG BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhuanet) -- When the Philadelphia Orchestra performed in China in 1973, the musicians found the audience's enthusiasm muffled. Forty years later, they felt like they were performing for a crowd at a football game. (Back then) it was like going to a golf match where the people would give this very polite applause that sounded like their hands were in white gloves, said percussionist Anthony Orlando, who has been with the orchestra since 1972. Now, it's terrific people cheer and shout and stamp their feet. I really enjoy the audiences in China. Orlando was on..
HANOI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of antiquities from an ancient sunken ship have been discovered in Binh Son district in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai, state-run news agency reported on Monday. Among the discovered objects, over 4,000 artifacts, including coins and ceramics, were recovered undamaged, which are believed to date back to the 13th century. The objects were collected from the seabed during an excavation on June 4-23, according to the Quang Ngai provincial steering board for archaeological exploration and excavation of underwater cultural heritage. The ship measures 20..
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Watching an avatar, or a computer-generated figure, that performs weight-loss behaviors in a virtual community might help some women shed pounds in the real world, according to a new U.S. study released on Monday. This pilot study showed that you don't have to be a gamer to use virtual reality to learn some important skills for weight loss, Melissa Napolitano, an associate professor at the George Washington University, said in a statement. She added the findings, published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, suggest that virtual reality could be a ..
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