Source: The Japan Times NINGXIA, CHINA – Every morning on his way to class at one of China’s largest Islamic institutes, Wang Yue is reminded that the state comes before […]
Source. The Local Amnesty International’s Refugees Welcome Index shows that China is the country where people are most willing to take in refugees. Germany comes a close second. More.
Source:The Washington Post A tiny American town is staking its future on Chinese foodies. By Ylan Q. Mui LITTLE CRANBERRY ISLAND, MAINE — The long journey from this remote island […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Amy Chua, who is a professor at Yale Law School and author of “Day of Empire” and “World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds […]
Source: Quartz China is building a Muslim theme park to promote its state-sanctioned version of Islam Since 1958, Yinchuan, a city 600 miles west of Beijing, has been the capital […]
Source: BBC Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has accused China of “raping” the US, in renewed criticism of China’s trade policy. He told a rally in Indiana that China was responsible for “the greatest theft in the history of the world”. Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, has long accused China […]
Source: Time Hannah Beech / Shanghai Anti-Western rhetoric heats up amid a climate of ideological tightening A Japanese child exemplifies honesty. A Russian one acts as a great friend. These […]
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has issued new rules that give prosecutors in Washington greater oversight and control over national security cases after the collapse of […]
Source: BBC By Theodora Sutcliffe 26 April 2016 In 2002, a wealthy purchaser paid 180,000 yuan – almost $28,000 – for just 20g of China’s legendary Da Hong Pao tea. […]
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping says that China must be on guard against nefarious religious influences from abroad. His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of religious space that has seen bans on the wearing of veils and beards in the predominantly Muslim region […]
Apr 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own — a republic of the rootless — it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a […]
Apr 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MARK LEONARD The consequences of Russia’s intervention in Syria stretch far beyond the Middle East. The Kremlin’s military campaign has tilted the stalemate in favour of the government and derailed efforts to craft a political compromise to end the war. It also heralds the […]
Source: CNN By Vivian Kam, CNN, Anna Kook and Georgia McCafferty, for CNN (CNN)China’s government workers are being warned off dating handsome foreigners — because they may be potential James Bonds. A 16-panel comic book-style poster that’s been widely displayed across Beijing tells the story of an attractive young […]
Source: Associated Press By NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — China has asked Indonesia to extradite four Uighur men in exchange for returning a graft fugitive recently arrested in Shanghai, the top Indonesian security minister said Thursday. Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan said Indonesia will […]
Source: Time By Hannah Beech / Shanghai Any less, and you’ll get away with a lengthy jail sentence. Any more, and you could be dead How much is an errant Chinese […]
Source: BBC By Stephen McDonell So Twitter now has a managing director in China – a Chinese woman who used to be in the military – and online activists on […]
Source: The Guardian By Tom Phillips A Chinese judge has rejected a gay couple’s attempt to secure the right to marry in the country’s first same-sex marriage case. Sun Wenlin, 27, from the central province of Hunan, had sued the civil affairs bureau in the city of Changsha for the right […]
Source: China Daily China is willing to encourage enterprises with due capacity to invest in Palestine, Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said in a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Also, […]
Source: Reuters Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism with suggestions he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful […]
Source: Channel NewsAsia BEIJING: Authorities in China’s capital will extend leave from work for new mothers and fathers, state media reported on Friday (Mar 25), in what appeared to be the latest incentive to encourage families to have more children. The world’s largest economy faces a shrinking labor force and […]