It has been a week since the exhibition On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt kicked off at the Shanghai Museum on July 19. The response has been overwhelming. Despite the scorching summer heat, there has been ...
This summer brings another piece of good news for China's video game enthusiasts, as the country's first professional video game museum opened in Shanghai on Thursday.
"Made in Japan," once a byword for meticulous craftsmanship and top-notch quality, is now widely being discredited. The rise of counterfeit products, manipulated data, and fraudulent practices has cast a shadow over the country's manufacturing legacy, raising concerns over the ...
It's nothing new for some separatist media outlets on the island of Taiwan, backed or indulged by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, to fabricate fake news to slander the mainland. Nonetheless, the rumors generated by a few outlets have ...
Editor's Note: Large models, robots, intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving... In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has frequently made headlines around the world. In real life, AI has permeated all aspects of human society, helping with scientific research in laboratories, assisting in ...
In the warm yellow light, the Bust of King Ramesses II stands silently, a majestic figure frozen in time. Just a few steps away, the painted anthropoid inner coffin of Amennutnakht lies in a glass showcase, its colors still vibrant ...
US tech firm OpenAI has restricted access to its artificial intelligence (AI) models through its application programming interface (API) service in China since Tuesday.
“Let us look forward to a brighter tomorrow...” a thunderous applause erupts as the choir's voices gradually faded, filling the theater with warmth and appreciation. On stage, young performers exchange handshakes and embrace, with their faces adorning with smiles or ...
In a vivid display of technology and creativity, visitors witness a simple image of a cat being transformed into a lively and dynamic short video. The scene unfolds as a staffer uploads the image onto a screen, which then magically ...
Amid the eager anticipation of visitors, a young woman's photo appears on a large screen. Next to the photo is a video of a woman with almost the same look who breaks into a radiant smile. "She" runs her fingers ...
Yin Wan "enters" a virtual world after putting on a VR (virtual reality) headset. With a 360-degree panoramic view, she boards a ship at a pier in Shanghai - the old Shanghai of the early 20th century.
The infamous Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) recently elected its new executive committee. The new committee, unsurprisingly similar to the association's previous leadership, is mainly composed of journalists from foreign media outlets and freelancers, making it more like a group ...
Thunderous applause erupts as the film ends. The cinema lights slowly brighten, illuminating the faces of audiences, many of whom have tears glistening in their eyes.
A thunderous applause erupts as the film ends. The cinema lights slowly brighten, illuminating the faces of many audience, with tears of emotion glistening in their eyes.
AI, digital life, space travel ... The future is coming at an unimaginable speed. At this crucial moment when China has embarked on a new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country, such rapid development and transformation not only ...
In the soft glow of the lights, ancient artifacts from Iran are displayed in a deep blue exhibition hall, each piece whispering tales of the distant and illustrious Persian civilization.
Indonesia is working hard to market itself as an attractive destination for Chinese tourists, and is hoping to draw 1 to 1.5 million Chinese visitors in 2024, the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy (MOTCE) said on Monday.
A 20-foot container-shaped storage tank is placed at a dock on Shanghai's Changxing Island, near the Yangtze River. Its white exterior shines in the seaside sun.
Greece's Attica Region, home to the capital Athens, is promoting greater tourism cooperation between the region and China, hoping to turn the region into a major travel destination for Chinese tourists.
The US Senate, in April 2024, approved a $95.3 billion foreign aid package for some of its allies including Ukraine and Israel. For Ukraine, the aid contained provisions, such as the Biden administration sending to Kiev more US-made missiles known ...
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach was appointed honorary professor of the Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) during his stay in Shanghai for the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS).
The just-ended Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai deserved a full remark, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach told the Global Times on Sunday, the last day of the event.
In the 14th installment in the series, the Global Times looks into how the US government and major social media platforms connive to spread anti-China slander online, as a non-obvious cognitive warfare trick that incites hostile sentiment toward China among ...
Accompanied by cheers and dynamic electronic music, Australian skateboarder Aaliyah Wilson glides effortlessly across the halfpipe, with her board seemingly an extension of her own body. Her fluid and graceful movements make her look like she is flying through the ...
Editor's Note: Big models, robots, intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving... In recent years, AI (artificial intelligence) has frequently made headlines around the world as a hot topic of discussion. The emergence of generative AI programs has also created unemployment anxiety. The development ...
A total of 464 top global athletes, including seven Tokyo 2020 Olympic champions, have gathered in Shanghai to vie for quota places at the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
"Welcome to the future!" These are the first words Ansh Mishra says to the camera, in a vlog of his trip to China that he shared on YouTube in late April. With lively electronic background music, the vlog shows attractive scenes ...
Students and alumni of more than 100 Chinese universities celebrated this year's May 4th, known as Youth Day in China, by composing original songs using AI (artificial intelligence) technology.
Having played a receptionist role during the UVA delegation's visit to China, Wu is pleased to serve as a window for the US youth to know more about Shanghai and China. "I believe that thAt the International Table Tennis Federation ...
Standing at the gate of a Shanghai-style Shikumen house, a typical Shanghai building with a courtyard and stone-framed gates, Chen Cheng and his friends wait for the memorial staff. Two days prior, they made an appointment by phone to visit ...
"Now let's see…" as the livestream host slowly scratches the silver coatings on the ticket with a key, viewer Liu Jinjuan nervously watches her phone. With fists clenched and breath held, Liu feels as if the key is also scratching ...
The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, a piece of legislation of Hong Kong's Basic Law Article 23 that took effect recently after being unanimously passed by local lawmakers, is another solid legal basis for maintaining stability and prosperity in the city ...
The 1st China AI (artificial intelligence) Music Festival was held during the just-ended Qingming Festival holidays, bringing audiences a special feast combining music and modern tech.
With the rapid development of AI technology, the"digital resurrection" of deceased loved ones is practically becoming an industry in the country, with controversies following close by, of course.
The Global Times is launching a series of articles, telling the vivid stories about human rights protection in the new era. We expect this series to become a window through which more foreign readers will understand how Chinese people recognize ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to head to the Philippines on Tuesday to reinforce the American-Philippine alliance through cooperation and security matters, following a recent trade mission there by US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. This is seen ...
When OpenAI released an AI-generated 60-second video in early February, the hyperrealistic video and its cutting-edge text-to-video model, Sora, sent shockwaves to the global AI-generated content (AIGC) industry that were nothing short of seismic.
When Lucas Fan received his friend Jim in Beijing in June 2023, Lucas had to order a taxi for Jim every time he needed one as Jim, from Ireland, could not link his international bank card with WeChat or Alipay ...
As the Chinese saying goes, “Women hold up half the sky.” An exhibition highlighting women's contribution to China's development over the past century kicked off at the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China ...
China is a main target of this restriction wave, although as a recent opinion piece in The Economist noted: "Chinese landholdings are both tiny and shrinking." Then how did the "China grabbing US land" fallacy come about?
The Philippines has recently advanced the domestic legislation of the "Maritime Zones Act" in an attempt to put a legal veneer on its illegal claims and actions in the South China Sea.
During this year's two sessions, the Global Times is launching a series of stories to illustrate the whole-process people's democracy from some of such details. The first story is about an ordinary workday of a grass-roots service site of a ...
Apart from directly stirring up frictions in the South China Sea region, it has been found that the Philippines has cooperated with some US anti-China forces to launch a cognitive warfare that defames China on the South China Sea issue, ...
Nancy Tang sighs in frustration when seeing the negative result on the pregnancy test kit, again. She writes a private post on social media that is only visible to herself: "If I don't get pregnant soon, I'm gonna miss the ...
I had assumed that Shanghai would be relatively quiet during this Chinese New Year holidays, when many migrant workers would leave for their hometowns during this annual family reunion season.
Diarra Boubacar, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner from Mali, Africa, and the first foreign doctor in China to obtain a doctoral degree in TCM, had a curious experience on his first day of official practice.
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. Wu's two exhibitions, as part of cultural exchange events between the two countries this year, have been flooded with visitors almost every day.
If an employee continues to reply to job-related messages in off-duty hours, can this be counted as overtime? should the employers offer extra payment to their staff for working during this period of time? It is not easy to answer ...
Blossoms Shanghai, a TV drama that depicts a story set in 1990s Shanghai, has become a hit TV series attracting much attention and sparking many discussions.
There are "solid bits of evidence" proving that India supports terrorist forces in some Pakistani areas like Balochistan Province, providing them with money, weapons, and training, some sources close to the matter told the Global Times.