Choral ensemble "The 24", from the Music Department of York University, will perform at the Chongqing Grand Theatre on March 27th. The ensemble toured Germany back in 2009, and has performed in Cambridge and York with Chinese conductor Zhu Buxi ... Read More>>
Get your greens on and head over to The Harp Irish Pub for the best St. Paddy’s Day party in Chongqing on March 17th. As always, there will be a great selection of Irish drinks, including Guinness, Murphy's, Kilkenny, Jameson's, Bushmills and Baileys. ... Read More>>
To celebrate the 2012 Spring Festival, Yuanboyuan Park in Chongqing is not only hanging 10,000 lanterns; it’s replanting tons of flowers as well, to give the place that "Chinese New Year's" smell. If you really want to get traditional this ... Read More>>
The Chongqing municipal government announced its plan to gradually phase in mandatory uniforms for all Chongqing taxi drivers on December 24th. The goal is that by July of next year all of the city's more than 30,000 taxi drivers will be in uniform. See ... Read More>>
In 2011, Chongqing Airport opened new international flight routes to the Maldives, Doha, Phuket, Hanoi and several other destinations. The airport has also signed a contract with Finnair (Finland) to open a Chongqing-Helsinki international flight route in ... Read More>>
Hainan Airlines will open a Guangzhou-Chongqing-Yan'an daily flight route on December 31st. Flights will depart Guangzhou at 07:40, arrive in Chongqing at 09:45, depart Chongqing at 10:45, and arrive in Yan'an at 12:30 (Flight No. HU7869). The return flight ... Read More>>
Acclaimed Israeli singer David D'Or will perform "Love in 2012" at the Chongqing People's Hall on December 31st. A countertenor with a vocal range of more than four octaves (reaching G5!), D'Or's voice is unusually versatile and wholly impressive, ... Read More>>
In what should be a "passionate and seductive" performance, Roni Benise will be bringing his Spanish guitar musings to the Chongqing People's Hall on December 27th. Born in Nebraska, Benise has received much praise for his unique fusion of world ... Read More>>
The Chongqing Morning Post recently reported that beginning next June, all city taxis will have a "black box" installed that will continuously monitor the vehicles’ operations. This black box will be able to identify when drivers "drive ... Read More>>
On November 1st, a kids’ shopping centre, claimed to be the largest in China, opened at Xingguang Shidai Square. The shopping centre, with an area of 12,000 sq m, has myriads of children commodities on sale, ranging from baby nail clippers, baby ... Read More>>
The Soundmakers Urban Music Festival will be held at the Riyueguang Square in Chongqing on November 5th. This year marks the 10th anniversary of this group of bands and musicians organizing this event, which is dedicated to youth, hope and rock music. ... Read More>>
A local film studio’s "Old Chongqing" sets were recently opened to the public as a new tourist attraction. To many visitors, the locations will seem very familiar—nearly 30 TV series have been filmed here, and the studio hopes that ... Read More>>
According to an article published in the Geological Bulletin of China on October 15th, a team of Chinese and American scientists recently discovered evidence of Chinese ancestors being heavily influenced by dinosaur tracks. In a remote village named Lianhua ... Read More>>
10 Wal-Mart stores in Chongqing were ordered to close for 15 days after it was discovered that they were selling ordinary pork as green pork. They were also ordered to pay a fine of 2.69 million RMB. Wal-Mart has 13 stores in Chongqing, 12 of which had made ... Read More>>
The 2nd Chongqing Youth Biennial Art Exhibition will be held from October 11th to November 6th at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. The main exhibition centre will display works by artists from South Korea, India and other countries. All materials at the ... Read More>>
The first trains of Chongqing Light Rail Line 3 set off on September 29th at 14:00. Line 3, which covers about 17.5 km, starts at Yuanyang Station, stops at Auto Expo Centre, North Railway Station, Guanyin Bridge, Huaxin Street and ends at Lianglukou ... Read More>>
The 15th Chongqing City Tourism Festival will be held September 22nd to October 8th on the square of the People’s Liberation Monument. The 10-day festival will be host to representatives from 50 cities and 200 tourism companies who will display their ... Read More>>
The St. Petersburg State Ballet on ice is scheduled to perform "Swan Lake" and "Nutcracker" September 9-12th at the Chongqing Renmin Square Theater. According to the press release, the St. Petersburg State Ballet is the only group in the ... Read More>>
Beijing Railway Administration announced a new train operation plan would be carried out from midnight, August 28th, according to which fast trains are set to replace bullet trains from Beijing to Chengdu and Chongqing, and several bullet trains will be ... Read More>>
The 3rd Chongqing International Beer and Music Festival commenced on August 20th at Nanpinlu Yanyu Park. The festival has a different theme each week: “Wuyi Binjiang Grand Night (武夷滨江盛放之夜)” on August 20th, “China Real Estate Rock ... Read More>>
Are we alone? That’s a question that’s been occupying humans for decades. On Wednesday, August 17th, UFO conspirators were given yet more evidence to feed their theories, when several flights at Chongqing’s Jiangbei International Airport ... Read More>>
Chongqing will continue suffering from the extreme heat for the next three days, with temperatures exceeding 40℃, according to the forecast of Chongqing Municipal Meteorological Observatory. Furthermore, no rain is likely to fall to stop the high ... Read More>>
The transfer between the two Jiaochangkou Stations (the Chongqing subway line station and the light rail line station) has been inconvenient for far too long. Chongqing Metro Group recently announced that it would start construction to streamline the ... Read More>>
On July 28th at 09:00, Chongqing Urban and Rural Construction Commission held the opening ceremony for the new Metro Line 1. The new line has 14 stations and runs east-west from Jiaochangkou to Shapingba taking 25 minutes for a complete journey. At the ... Read More>>