Doha's first-ever Panda House was officially open the public on November 17th.(locate) at Al Khor Park near the Al Bayt Stadium, the Panda House will be home to Chinese giants, three-year-old female Si Hai and four-year-old male Jing Jing.

"The giant pandas (receive) careful and thoughtful care since they moved in", Chinese Ambassador to Qatar Zhou Jian said,  (add) that they can understand certain words in the Sichuan dialect.

"The  (expert) here are working very hard to take care of the giant pandas and trying to learn the dialect to communicate with the pandas (well)," he said. "I must say they are doing great job."

Born in the Wolong Panda Base, a natural (protect) zone under the China Giant Panda Research Center in Sichuan Province, Si Hai and Jing Jing arrived in Qatar on October 19th went through a 21-day quarantine (隔离期). After that, they met the public in their (full) air-conditioned areas.

An exhibition titled "Symbiosis of the Chinese Zodiac (生肖)" opened at the Tocumen International Airport in Panama on Dec 19 and would run until Jan 20.

Sally Huang,  Chinese Panamanian artist and a doctor of art from Beijing Normal University, presented thirteen paintings,  combine the freehand brushstrokes of traditional Chinese paintings with the beautiful colors of Latin America, and presented the zodiac animals. Also there were some sculptures of zodiac animals  display, which wer created by Chinese artist Zhang Yong, graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

The exhibition was included in the project Painting Our Canals (运河), which  (sponsor) by the Beijing Culture and Arts Fund this year. The Beijing Culture and Arts Fund is a nonprofit fund  (found) by the Beijing Bureau of Culture and Tourism to provid support in the three major fields of stage art, cultural exchange and  (intera), and the cultivation (培养) of art talents.

The lead institution applying for the project was Beijing Normal University,  (feature) a series of events themed on the canal culture in both China and Panama, also inviting artists from both countries  (attend) the exhibitions as well as hosting academic forums.

The opening ceremony was joined by representatives (代表) from both countries, such as the Chinese ambassador to Panama and the vice-minister of culture in Panama.

The ambassador  (particular) expressed some congratulations to the artists in his speech, while emphasizing that China and Panama should work together to promote  (globe) peace and development.

"The Space-Time Painter, "written by Chinese writer Hai Ya, won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette at the 81st World Science Fiction Convention, (hold)in the city of Chengdu. It is the first time that the world's largest and longest-running sci-fi gathering – (come)to China.

Hai shared his source of (inspire)of creating the award-winning book at a press conference. "I watched program of China Media Group named National Treasure Archive and the detailed information of the painter of One Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains was introduced, interested me, "he said, adding that the painter was an (extreme) gifted young man but was never seen again in history, which is a concept that could (explore)with science-fiction. The fiction tells a story about the (politics) power struggle of the time combined diverse elements such as Chinese traditional culture, history, inference and science fiction.

Hai, also a financial worker, thinks of (he) more a sci-fi enthusiast than a writer. "I write while doing my job, so I have very little time to write every day, "he said. "But I think as long as I love it and am willing to put efforts in it, I will see hopes and the dawn. "