The trust of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum has donated HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) to victims of the deadly Tai Po blaze, surpassing tycoon Li Ka-shing to become the second-largest ...

Es Devlin’s The Library of Us has emerged as one of Miami Art Week’s most dramatic spectacles. The 20-foot-tall rotating bookshelf housing 2,500 books invites visitors to read and reflect in a quiet ...

In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong ...

Police in Hong Kong have arrested three men from a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 94 people and left hundreds of others missing ...

New bookshelves and comfy seating are now available to the students of Abbey Lane Elementary School in the Levittown School District as the community cut the ribbon on a newly renovated library on Nov ...

Neal Hakimi was reelected to the Great Neck Library board of trustees seat he has held for the past year in the library’s election on Monday, Oct. 27. Hakimi beat newcomer Stephanie Ramirez, who was ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

The rapid rise of "poor man's meals" is providing a feeding frenzy for restaurants at the bottom of China's food chain, as increasingly frugal consumers who still want to dine out search for the ...

A new auction record for the Chinese-born artist Li Hei Di, a fast-rising market star, was set at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on Sunday evening: HK$2.67 million ($342,824), a 91-percent increase from the ...

Germany-based Atlas International Film has acquired international sales rights for Hong Kong action movie Drunken Blade, written and directed by Chinese action star Li Bingyuan. Li also stars in the ...

Now it’s in the books. A Long Island library with a fascinating past, marked by women’s suffrage milestones and an infamous arson incident, is now officially listed on the National Register of ...

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