Vatican concerns over bishop detained in China
Source: BBC News The Vatican has expressed “grave concerns” for one of its bishops who was detained after being “forcibly removed” from his diocese in China. Chinese Catholic bishop Peter […]
Is a Buddhist Group Changing China? Or Is China Changing It?
Source: The New York Times By IAN JOHNSON A statue of the Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the leader of the Buddhist organization Fo Guang Shan, in Yixing. CreditGilles Sabrie for […]
More than 100 feared buried in landslide in China
Source:CNN A landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan province buried more than 40 houses, the Chinese state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported Saturday. More than 100 people were unaccounted for after the landslide, which happened at 6 a.m. local time in Xinmo village in Mao County, Aba Prefecture, CCTV said. […]
With an eye on China, Australia-India warily embrace
Source: AT When India recently decided against allowing Australia to join the upcoming Malabar joint naval exercises it holds annually with the United States and Japan, the move immediately sparked speculation that New Delhi’s exclusion aimed to appease China. China had recently warned against expanding the annual Malabar Exercises naval exercises, […]
Xi’s Marco Polo strategy
Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Project Syndicate Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated “Belt and Road” forum in Beijing. The two-day event attracted 29 heads […]
China ponders public morality after video of gruesome death
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH BEIJING (AP) — A speeding taxi knocks the pedestrian off her feet, sending her hurtling through the air. Dozens of people stand gawking or […]
It Didn’t Take Long for China to Fill America’s Shoes on Climate Change
Source: Time Justin Worland Jun 08, 2017 Just a week after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, China has already wrestled the mantle of leadership […]
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 […]