Chinese Unveil Mammoth Arts Center
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The National Center for the Performing Arts, a $400 million complex, has attracted at least as much attention for its cost overruns, safety concerns and provocative aesthetics.
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China officially unveiled its bubble-wrapped National Aquatics Centre, nicknamed the "Water Cube", on Monday, one of the two iconic venues for this year's Beijing Olympics.
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China and the African Union on Friday launched a 150-million-dollar project to build a new conference centre for the cash-strapped continental body, officials said.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.
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Arts & entertainment: Historic centre of law to give access to galleries, halls and largest private gardens in London
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The "Watercube," one of the two iconic venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was unveiled on Monday
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The largest display of China's fames Terracotta Army ever seen outside the country will appear at the British Museum.
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China plans to tear down a museum to restore the original appearance of its imperial palace in a sweeping renovation of the Forbidden City that will last until 2020, officials said on Thursday.
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An American casino company spearheading new growth in Macau&#39;s 150-year-old gambling industry plans to open the biggest gaming hall the southern Chinese enclave has ever seen.
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BEIJING: The southern Chinese boomtown of Guangzhou plans to put itself in the record books by building the tallest tower in the world, with work set to begin next month, officials involved in the project said Monday.
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has signed on to build a satellite insitution at the entrance to the High Line.
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Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage &#151; and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it.
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A refurbished 1950's-era weapons factory in China has become a haven for avant-garde art.
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Playboy Enterprises will open a 40,000-square-foot entertainment complex, the Playboy Mansion Macao, with dining, entertainment and retail shops, in Macao in late 2009, the chief executive, Christie Hefner, said. The complex will be part of the Macao Studio City complex, with the gambling operations run by a casino operator, Melco International Development, Ms. Hefner, left, said in an interview in Macao. Macao Studio City, a $2 billion joint venture between the Hong Kong-listed ESun Holdings and partners including Silver Point Capital, is next to the Lotus Bridge, which will link Macao and the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai. It will include a film studio, a million-square-foot shopping mall, and gambling and convention sites.
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A Chinese company, mixing patriotism with showbiz, launched plans on Monday to build a full copy of the vast imperial gardens whose destruction 148 years ago remains a potent symbol of China's long domination by the West.
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BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters Life!) - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is considering developing a museum project in Beijing, its director said on Friday during a visit to China.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino  operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on  Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven  increasingly crowded by global players.