If you're worried about what you'll look like when you're dead, a Chinese funeral parlor has got you covered. The Longhua funeral home in Shanghai is using 3-D printing technology to restore body ...

BEIJING - As the Communist Party of China continues to tighten its grip on the regulation of religion and religious activity, a human rights group is reporting that officials are disrupting religious ...

With Tomb-Sweeping Day around the corner, Chinese-Americans are getting ready to honor their ancestors and mourn their deceased loved ones. The tradition is still there, but has taken various forms at ...

Lavish funerals are an important part of rural Chinese culture, but one ceremony in northwest China costing over 10 million yuan (US$1.5 million) has raised the question as to whether the age-old ...

Learn the ins and outs of feng shui, villain hitting and fortunetelling, as well as the dos and don’ts for cultivating good luck in our series on Chinese superstitions. Belief in the afterlife and ...

Read Crain's feature about the funeral industry's death spiral and the few operators managing to stay alive. In 2001, Joe Aievoli put up a small sign in Chinese on the Aievoli Funeral Home in Dyker ...

Anyone familiar with China knows that it’s a crowded place. Houses are getting smaller and more expensive, traffic jams can last longer than ten days, and city subways have staff on call during rush ...

BEIJING – The Chinese government said on Thursday it will not send an envoy to Pope John Paul II's (search) funeral due to its long-standing policy of refusing to recognize states that have diplomatic ...

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