This is the latest instalment in a feature series reflecting on instances of East meets West in world cinema, including China-US co-productions. If asked to name the first American film to be shot and ...

Africa's Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometer-wide band of trees across the north of Africa. The African Union launched the project in 2007 with plans for the ...

One of the innumerable legends surrounding the construction of the Great Wall of China tells of a workman who estimated that he would need 99,999 bricks to construct a section of the wall now known as ...

Soon after Hong Kong transplant Kin San Chan opened Great Wall in 1980, it went on to become Idaho’s first Chinese buffet. “We absolutely were,” his son, Kenneth Chan, confirms. Forty-five years later ...

The Great Wall of China continues to fascinate the world, thousands of years after construction on the massive bulwark first began. This architectural wonder is a historic reminder of what humanity ...

From left: Then-European Council President Charles Michel, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meet in Beijing ahead of the China-EU Summit on Dec. 7, ...

In 2016, Matt Damon starred in The Great Wall, an ambitious American and Chinese co-production that was meant to be a blockbuster in both countries. By the time The Great Wall arrived in America in ...

Matt Damon is currently in the middle of filming The Odyssey, the next film from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan, but arguably the most controversial project of the star’s career has stumbled ...

Long before the Great Wall of China was constructed, other monumental walls were built across the Eurasian steppes – but they weren’t designed to defend against Mongol armies. Recent excavations ...

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