TALPEX 2025 will run from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 22, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, March 23, at the Tallahassee Senior ...

China’s first postage stamps from the Qing Dynasty ... making them exceptionally rare. One of these stamps sold at auction for €1.26 million (about $1.73 million after closing costs).

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history.

Case in point: I heard mention about the first U.S. postage stamp being issued in 1847. I doubted that, because the Stamp Act (one of the oppressive actions that led American colonists to revolt ...

[Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Wang Yusheng, a mathematician in his 80s, remembers that, after he enrolled in the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1978, he would often spend ...