Is philanthropy catching on among China’s super rich?
Source: BBC News When US billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett held a banquet in China a few years ago to urge fellow tycoons to donate their fortunes to charity, […]
ISIS Says It Killed Two Chinese Hostages in Pakistan
Source: The Daily Beast The so-called Islamic State said Thursday that it killed two Chinese teachers kidnapped last month in southwestern Pakistan. The two were working as language teachers in Quetta when armed men disguised in police uniforms abducted them on May 24. The ISIS-friendly Amaq news agency said members […]
Inside China’s incredible high-speed rail network
Source: BBC See the view from the driver cabin of China’s super-fast trains, and take a tour of the control rooms running this massive operation. This video is from the […]
Muslim children forced to drop ‘religious’ names in western China
Source: The Guardian BY Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong Children under 16 told ‘overly religious’ names such as Saddam, Hajj and Jihad must be changed amid pro-Communist rallies across Xinjiang region […]
The Silk Road: Glorious Past and Even Brighter Future
By H.E. PANG Sen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Iran The Silk Road: Glorious Past and Even Brighter Future May 22, 2017 Over 2,000 years ago, an official delegation sent by the Chinese Emperor arrived in this piece of land after an arduous long journey. The road he […]
China crippled CIA by killing US sources, says New York Times
Source: BBC Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times reports, damaging US information-gathering in the country […]
Mount Everest’s famous Hillary Step destroyed, mountaineers confirm
Source: BBC A famous feature of Mount Everest has collapsed, potentially making the world’s highest peak even more dangerous to climbers. Mountaineers said the Hillary Step may have fallen victim […]
China claims breakthrough in mining ‘flammable ice’
Source: BBC China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply. Chinese authorities have described […]
China moves to expand DNA testing in Muslim region
AP | Published — Tuesday 16 May 2017 Uighurs rest near a food stall in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in this Aug. 6, 2008 file photo. (AP) BEIJING: China appears to […]
The entrepreneurs making money out of thin air
By Vikram Barhat 16 May 2017 Whether enveloped by the thick smog from factories or choked with invisible poisons from vehicle exhausts, many cities around the world are losing […]
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in China. We found that the Internet fuels — and fights — this.
Source: The Washington Post By Rose Luqiu and Fan Yang May 12 Children play near a cage protecting Chinese paramilitary policemen in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 2014. […]
Eurasian century beckons
EDITORIAL THE EDITORIAL BOARD ISTANBUL The ancient modern Silk Road between China and Europe will be revived, spreading prosperity and security along the way. This was the message sent at […]
Lack of dust makes China’s air pollution much worse
Source: BBC By Matt McGrath Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionStudies suggest that the deaths of 1.6 million people a year in China are linked to air quality Airborne dust is normally […]
China’s 1st big passenger jet completes maiden flight
Source: CNN China’s first large jetliner has successfully completed its maiden flight, a key moment in the country’s push to challenge the U.S. and Europe as a global manufacturer. The […]
Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China
Source: PRI The communists who took the reins in China in 1949 viewed religion as backward and superstitious. Authorities did their best to wipe out religious life. And by the […]
China to launch Wikipedia rival in 2018
Source: BBC China is to launch an online version of its national encyclopaedia next year, to compete with Wikipedia. Officials said more than 20,000 people had been hired to work […]
First direct Britain-China train completes run
AFP | Published — Sunday 30 April 2017 A freight train transporting containers laden with goods from London, arrives at Yiwu railway port station in Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang province on April 29, 2017. (AFP) BEIJING: The first freight train linking China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern […]
China convicts Christian lawyer of subverting state power
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court has convicted a prominent Christian human rights lawyer on charges of subverting state power and sentenced him to three years in […]
China launches aircraft carrier, boosting military presence
Source: BBC China has launched a new aircraft carrier in the latest sign of its growing military strength. It is the country’s second aircraft carrier, after the Liaoning, and the […]
China Bans ‘Muhammad’ and ‘Jihad’ as Baby Names in Heavily Muslim Region
Source: The New York Times By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ Walking past a mosque in Kashgar, a city in China’s western region of Xinjiang. More than 10 million Uighurs, a mostly […]