Super Rugby season over for Aso
Vince Aso’s Super Rugby season is over as the Hurricanes received some rare bad injury news in the lead-up to their clash with the Queensland Reds. Lightning-quick outside back Aso needs wrist ligament surgery and won’t return to the field…
Brumbies launch charity initiative to draw fans back to GIO Stadium
The Brumbies have challenged their fans to turn out in droves when they face the Sunwolves at GIO Stadium on Sunday week, with $15,000 to be donated to three charities if 15,000 people attend. Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring…
Shanghai Grand Theater trying out new identification system
Recently the Shanghai Grand Theatre took the unprecedented step of, demanding that ticket buyers present their ID information for the purchase of tickets for a play named Deling and Cixi. The theater production featuring a star-studded cast will have seven…
Pocock ready to repay faith on and off the field
David Pocock is an on-field beast, but the value the returning Australian flanker brings to the Wallabies might be just as critical off the pitch. Wallabies coach Michael Cheika has spoken often about the value of diversity in his squads…
One Percenters: June boost for Wallabies, Irish prop pops up at UQ
The Wallabies’ third June Test officially sold out on Friday and there could be more good news to come. Rugby Australia appears on the verge of announcing a naming rights sponsor for the upcoming June Series against Ireland. Australia hasn’t…
Reds seal first win of season in Tokyo fightback
The Queensland Reds have sealed their first win of the season with a thrilling second-half fightback against the Sunwolves in Tokyo. A Hamish Stewart penalty in the 79th minute handed the Reds a 34-31 victory after an injection of bench…
Club hub: Wright returns for Easts, Brothers claim QPR minor premiership
Brothers have won the Queensland Premier Rugby minor premiership after surviving a scare from an Easts side bolstered by the return of flanker Liam Wright from Wallabies squad duty. Wright, who travelled to South Africa with the Wallabies ahead of…
Chicago Chinese community holds gala to celebrate China’s National Day
The Chinese community in Chicago held a gala Sunday night to celebrate the upcoming 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Click Here: Golf special Hundreds of Chinese and Americans at Harper College Performing Arts Theater…
British engineer’s impressions of China
It’s no great surprise to Angus Black, once the youngest chartered engineer in the UK, that China has made many seemingly impossible things possible in recent decades. He came to China in 1990, not knowing what the country was like…
Playing with technology
Thought-provoking stage productions abound at the second installment of Inside-Out Theater’s Tech-Art Festival, Xing Wen reports. To a backdrop of pulsating sounds, actors arrive onstage with beams of torchlight piercing the pitch-blackness. From just the wordless cast’s body language and…