Fanjing Mountain is an otherworldly place on our planet, where people and our land reach for the heavens, where wildlife makes our Earth theirs, and where the sun and Buddha illuminate our world.

Every lunar year, certain Chinese zodiac animals offend the ruling deity and risk bad luck. Fortunately, there are ways to appease the deity. A tomb over 700 years old in China has a mural with a cat, ...

FROM Lion and Dragon dances to special meals, coffees, and cakes, Lunar New Year celebrations dot the city around the close of January and the beginning of February. Here are just a few of them. The ...

Wukong winning Game of the Year at the 2024 Steam Awards, Game Science co-founder and CRO Feng Ji lamented the studio’s ...

A religious ceremony in dedication to His Majesty the King will take place at Sanam Luang ... Attaining the Same Age as His Majesty King Buddha Yodfa Chulalok the Great (Rama I) 2025.” ...

The Monkey King is a 2014 Hong Kong-Chinese fantasy film directed by Cheang Pou-soi and starring Donnie Yen as the titular protagonist. Yen also serves as the film's action director. Production ...

The occasion holds deep cultural and historical significance, rooted in royal traditions of honoring the legacies of past monarchs. Such ceremonies have been observed by Thai kings throughout the ...

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California police were treated to a surprise Monday night when they pulled over a Rolls-Royce in a suspected DUI case and discovered a dealer’s amount of weed and a spider monkey in the front seat.

A routine traffic stop took an unusual turn when a California Highway Patrol (CHP) official stopped a Rolls-Royce in Madera County on Monday. Officials pulled the 2022 Rolls-Royce Ghost over for ...