Number of Chinese studying abroad is growing

Number of Chinese studying abroad is growing

By YAO Yuxin “Entschuldigung, ”Michael Mai, 19, says “excuse me” in German as he walks through a crowd. Mai, from Shenzhen, China, has been a freshman at Leipzig University in Germany for the last 10 months. Before Leipzig, Mai studied environmental science and...
Learn to love and fear animals in the Leipzig Zoo

Learn to love and fear animals in the Leipzig Zoo

By Ng Man Kit Harry In 2010, a cross-eyed opossum named Heidi became an international star after a German tabloid featured of photo of the creature. With more than 180,000 Facebook followers and a song named after her, the beloved creature lived until the ripe old...
Mendelssohn: the musical engineer of Leipzig

Mendelssohn: the musical engineer of Leipzig

by Steven Wang Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived in Leipzig, Germany for 27 years and died there, has become the calling card for the city. But 2 kilometers southeast of the Bach Museum and St Thomas Church, where Bach worked, is an inconspicuous...