China’s intriguing Palestine proposal
STORY SUMMARY By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star It might be coincidental timing or just a really bad case of mean-spirited in-your-face aggressive Israeli diplomacy. In the same week […]
High Prevalence of Domestic Violence in China
Source: China Daily An international survey on domestic violence that interviewed more than 2,000 Chinese found that half of male respondents confessed they have physically or sexually abused their wives or girlfriends. James Lang, program coordinator of Partners for Prevention, a regional joint program by four United Nations agencies including […]
Palestine’s Abbas, Israel’s Netanyahu head to China
Reuters / JORDAN TIMES BEIJING — China will host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week for separate bilateral talks as it tries to shore up its role in a region where its diplomatic influence is limited. China, Iran’s top oil customer and a permanent […]
NE China to build robot industrial base
Source: China Daily SHENYANG – A robot industrial base with an estimated annual output of 50 billion yuan (8 billion U.S. dollars) will be established in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, […]
Meeting between China and France Delivers Big Deals
The Leaders stand in the background as contracts are signed Source: China Daily Xi, Hollande vow to push ties and build multipolar world order Beijing and Paris signed 18 deals on […]
Australia’s central bank to invest in Chinese bonds
Source: BBC Australia’s central bank is planning to invest around 5% of its foreign currency reserves in Chinese government bonds, its deputy governor has said. It will be the first […]
Ambitious’ scholarships launched
Source: China Daily The $300 million scholarship fund for foreign students to study in China launched by US private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman represents a “remarkably ambitious” effort to boost understanding of China by the United States and other Western nations, an executive member of the Asia Society said. “For […]
Rescuers race against time for quake victims in China
The Muslim Times’ Editor Note: The Western media seems to have ignored this grave human tragedy. Source: China Daily Chinese rescue workers are in a race against time to save […]
Earthquake in China has claimed 156 lives, with more than 5,500 injured
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in southwestern China has left 156 dead and more than 5,500 people injured, Reuters reports. The Chinese army has stepped in to deal with the debris of collapsed houses and public building as death toll continues to rise. The disaster has struck the country’s south-western Sichuan […]
Sorry it’s fake
Source: CNN The discovery of an old tomb in China has repercussions beyond the history books and academic debates of scholars — it also means tourists to an existing tomb in the same area have been unintentionally duped. A tomb recently unearthed at a construction site in Yangzhou, China, is […]
China’s Catholic body vs the Vatican
Source: A Times: Most analysis went as follows. The pope is sovereign of the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world by population; the president of China heads the largest. Yet the size of the population over which the two nations hold sway is oddly similar. There are roughly […]
China, Australia establish strategic talks
A scenic view from China Source: China Daily Updated: 2013-04-10 02:05 Written by Li Xiaokun and Li Jiabao Beijing and Canberra also announced that the Australian dollar will become the […]
US, China and playful AfPak frogs
Source: A times: By M K Bhadrakumar Writing in the Los Angeles Times a year ago, predicting with extraordinary prescience how exasperating the American efforts to negotiate an Afghan settlement would turn out to be when the crunch time comes, Peter Tomsen who was president Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to […]
China to create home-grown operating system
Source: BBC China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users. The collaboration will produce a version of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system called Kylin which will be released in April. The deal is part of a five-year plan by China to get more people using […]
The man who dug a well and found an army
by Xudong Yang and Dahai Shao, swissinfo.ch Mar 15, 2013 When peasant Yang Zhifa found a piece of old terracotta as he dug a well, he thought he’d stumbled on […]
Papal mission to build trust in China
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The names of popes are policy statements on the governance of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is no coincidence that the new pontiff has chosen to call himself Francis, the name of saint of Assisi in the 12th century, but also […]
Good Lord: In China, Christian Fundamentalists Target Tibetans
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore / Xining TIME WORLD When Dawa said yes to a party held by American friends in the city of Xining, she expected music, drinks, and a chance […]
210 more billionaires in past year amid rising global poverty
Tue Mar 5, 2013 SOURCE: PRESSTV Amid the surging poverty across the globe, a newly released list of richest people in the world points to the climbing number of billionaires […]
China: Official Tightens Religious Restrictions Affecting Muslim Uyghurs
By RFA — (March 4, 2013) A recently appointed official of a county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is cracking down on religious activities—from mandatory daily prayers to traditional burial rites—of the mostly Muslim Uyghurs, causing much anxiety among the community. Vice governor Haki had severely tightened restrictions since taking […]
New 7 Wonders of the World
Read about Taj Mahal in Wikipedia. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the New Seven Wonders Foundation list. For other uses, see Wonders of the World. New […]