Road collisions kill 56 in China
At least 56 people have been killed in a series of road collisions in China including 35 mainly young people travelling on a bus. Read More…
Evolution of the Muslim Times: ‘Twitplomacy’ in the West and ‘Weiplomacy’ for 1.5 B Chinese
Source / Courtesy: China Daily BEIJING – The world became a smaller and flatter place thanks to the Internet. But with the emergence of Weibo, the micro blog, cyberspace has again become multidimensional, as Weibo has been chosen as the most effective and immediate platform for people to say not only who they […]
Myitsone Project Beneficial for Both China and Myanmar
The President of the China Power Investment Corporation, Lu Qizhou, has now expressed concern over reports that Myanmar is to suspend contruction of the China-Myanmar Hydropower Project. Read More…
Palestinians struggle for a ninth vote at UNSC
RAMALLAH (AFP) – Jordan Times. The Palestinians have secured eight Security Council yes votes for their UN membership bid, just one short of the nine they need, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Ramallah, Riyad Al Malki said he had received assurances from two additional […]
Solar power pioneer Huang Ming wins ‘alternative Nobel’
Source / Credit: BBC Chinese solar power pioneer Huang Ming is one of four winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Awards, sometimes also called the alternative Nobel prize. Mr Huang was honoured for developing “cutting-edge technologies for harnessing solar energy”. Also honoured were Chadian human rights activist Jacqueline Moudeina, […]
Rocket launches Chinese space lab
A rocket carrying China’s first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country. The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT). The rocket’s ascent took the lab out over the Pacific, and on a path […]
Confucius alive!
China’s ancient sage is helping the country propagate its language and culture abroad. An institute named after Confucius is sowing the seeds of better understanding and better communication with the world, throughout the world. Mike Peters and Zhang Chunyan take a closer look at the Confucius Institute abroad. Source / […]
China Prepares to Launch Tiangong- 1 Between Sept. 29, 30
Engineers are conducting the final preparations before launching China’s first space laboratory module at the end of this week at a launch center in northwest China. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between Sept. 27 and 30. However, a weather forecast showing […]
China’s richest man Liang Wengen may join ruling elite
China’s richest man is set to join the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee, media reports say. Read More…
The Dalai Lama: Religious Harmony and why a Biased Mind Cannot Grasp Reality
SOURCE: THE DALAI LAMA I am extremely delighted to attend this inter faith seminar on the Preservation of Religious Harmony, Coexistence and Universal Peace organised by the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), Ladakh group. Thank you very much for the detailed explanation of the association’s history, activities, objectives and their relevance […]
Statement of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, on the Issue of His Reincarnation
SOURCE: HIS HOLYNESS THE DALAI LAMA Introduction My fellow Tibetans, both in and outside Tibet, all those who follow the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and everyone who has a connection to Tibet and Tibetans: due to the foresight of our ancient kings, ministers and scholar-adepts, the complete teaching of the Buddha, […]
How China kept lid on Ramadan
In the aftermath of violent protests by Uighurs, a Muslim minority in China’s far northwest, authorities deepened their campaign against religious practices. September 11, 2011|By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Beijing — At a teachers college in far northwestern China, students were irritated to find that their professors […]
Protesters riot in China city over land sale
Protests are taking place in a Chinese city for a third day, after two days of reported rioting over a land sale. Officials said protesters in Lufeng city injured police officers and damaged government buildings during the unrest that began on Wednesday. Read More…
Chinese FM urges U.S. to revoke arms sales to Taiwan
NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi Thursday urged the United States to correct its error by immediately revoking its arms sales plan to Taiwan so as to safeguard the overall situation of Sino-U.S. relations as well as peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits. Read […]
China hits out at US deal on Taiwan F-16 fighters
China has reacted angrily to a US deal to upgrade Taiwan’s ageing fleet of US-built F-16 fighter planes. Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun said the $5.85bn (£3.77bn) deal would “inevitably undermine bilateral relations”, including military and security co-operation. He also summoned US Ambassador Gary Locke to protest against the deal. Read […]
China and India Making Inroads in Biotech Drugs
Source: The New York Times Chinese and Indian drug makers have taken over much of the global trade in medicines and now manufacture more than 80 percent of the active ingredients in drugs sold worldwide. But they had never been able to copy the complex and expensive biotech medicines increasingly […]
China solar panel factory shut after protests
A solar panel factory in eastern China has been shut down after protests by local residents over pollution fears. Some 500 villagers staged a three-day protest following the death of large numbers of fish in a local river. Read More…
Undeterred India to hunt for oil in South China Sea
Source: The Times of India NEW DELHI: Brushing aside China’s warning on Thursday asking countries “outside the region” to stay away from the South China Sea, foreign minister SM Krishna told his Vietnamcounterpart Pham Binh Minh that India’sONGC Videsh will go ahead with oil and gas exploration in the disputed region or […]
‘Western or Eastern dominance? Would it matter?’ Ian Morris, a Stanford historian
Source / Courtesy: China Daily He also thinks the big theme of his book, Western or Eastern dominance, will eventually also seem like a trivial issue since advances, particularly, in technology, will move the debate on. “I think worrying about the relative strength of the East or the West will […]
Mass arrests in China illegal ‘gutter oil’ police sting
Police in China have arrested 32 people in an operation to prevent the sale of illegally reprocessed cooking oil. More than 100 tonnes of oil were seized in raids across 14 provinces. Some of it had been collected from drains behind restaurants to be sold on. Read More…