The festival that we celebrate today, however, is believed to be inspired by an ancient myth, about the poet Qu Yuan. Dragon boat racing isn't as easy as it looks: here's what it take to compete ...

PETALING JAYA: While many celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan, for Tan Ai Beng, it is another festive family reunion. She said the festival was a time for a family ...

The festival is celebrated to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself about 1,000 years ago to protest corrupt practices in China. After his death, people threw zong zi in a gesture to ...

The legacy is a celebration that commemorates the death of patriotic statesman and poet Qu Yuan of the third century. An annual festival takes place in London where competitive races and carnival ...

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, April 9 (Reuters) - China's yuan ended at its weakest level in more than 17 years on Wednesday after its offshore counterpart fell to a record low overnight, as an escalating ...

That would have offset some of the expected damage to its exports from President Donald Trump's tariff war, but instead the central bank opted for a fix of 7.198 yuan per dollar, or just 0.1% weaker.

When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...

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