A Manx poet, actor, and playwright has received the Isle of Man's top cultural award. Annie Kissack has been awarded the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan, or Manannan's Choice of the Year, by Culture Vannin.

China has long had a rich cultural tradition, but the country has been out of the art picture for a century or more. Times are changing, and now that Wal-Mart has turned the place into an economic ...