China’s government has released a policy document that lays out its vision for the country’s future. It says it wants to be a rich, strong nation at peace with other countries. China will not repeat the mistakes of other great powers who sought to dominate other nations, the white paper […]
Source / Courtesy: Wikipedia Zheng He (1371–1433, 鄭和 / 郑和; pinyin: Zhèng Hé), also known as Ma Sanbao (馬三寶 / 马三宝) and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin (Persian: حاجی محمود شمس) was a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, collectively […]
Source/Credit: Reuters The Kronos Global Absence survey conducted online in July and released this week found that respondents from countries where there is more paid leave for employees were much less likely to cry off work with an invented illness than those from countries with fewer holiday allowances. The Harris […]
Eight children were hurt when an employee at a child-care centre for migrant workers in the Chinese city of Shanghai slashed them with a knife, local media reports say. Read More…
Courtesy / Source: China Daily RAMALLAH – The number of countries recognizing Palestine is likely to reach 130 before the Palestinians request a United Nations vote on their independence next month, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki said Saturday. El Salvador and Honduras were the recent countries to recognize Palestine as an independent state. […]
The Defense Ministry on Friday voiced “strong dissatisfaction” and “firm opposition” to a newly-released annual report by the Pentagon on China’s military. “China has lodged solemn representations with the U.S. side,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun in a statement on the report. Read More…
BEIJING/GAZA CITY/CAIRO (Agencies) – China said on Thursday it supports a Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations next month, the Associated Press reported. JORDAN TIMES. Negotiations with Israel on the terms of Palestinian statehood have been frozen since 2008. As an alternative, the Palestinians have decided […]
Millions of Asians Escape Poverty Despite Crisis More than 245 million Asians were lifted out of extreme poverty in the last five years despite the global economic crisis, the Asian Development Bank said, citing the region’s brisk economic growth. China, the world’s most populous nation, outperformed other Asian countries, with […]
BRUSSELS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy will make a brief stopover in Beijing to meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Thursday. The two are expected to discuss ways to solve the recent turbulence in global financial markets and find an end to the economic recession. Sarkozy is adding the […]
By AFRA NAUSHAD, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM Haji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang is a Chinese calligrapher extraordinaire who has been producing Chinese-Arabic calligraphic art for over a decade. Born in 1963 in Yucheng, Shadong province of China, Haji Noor Deen was the first Chinese national conferred with the honorable Certificate of Arabic Calligrapher […]
United States Vice President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Sichuan University in Chengdu City, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011. [Photo: Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing] Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday called China’s rise a “positive development” that will bring more opportunities for bilateral […]
By Zhou Siyu (China Daily) BEIJING – China will start shipments of food aid to northeast African countries by the end of this month to ease famine caused by severe drought in the region, an official from the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday. The shipments from Tianjin port will be […]
BEIJING – Amid doubts over the prospects of a harmonious China-US relationship, the world’s two largest economies delivered strong messages of cooperation during US Vice-President Joe Biden’s visit to Beijing. “In facing a complicated and fast-changing world, cooperation is the only correct choice for the two countries,” Chinese Vice- President […]
US Vice-President Joe Biden has told his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that global economic stability rests on the US and China finding common ground. Speaking on the first day of an official visit to China, Mr Biden said a close relationship with China was of the “utmost importance”. The trip […]
China’s maritime authority on Tuesday confirmed that it will sue companies responsible for oil leaks in the Bohai Bay. The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said in a statement that the oil spill in the Penglai 19-3 oil-field developed by ConocoPhillips China caused damage to China’s oceanic ecological system, and the […]
Source: CNN Author: Fareed Zakaria What struck me this past week was China’s reaction to our credit downgrade. Its state-run media thundered that America needed to “cure its addiction” to debt. A Hong Kong newspaper widely read on the mainland ran a front page with a banner saying “The American […]
Source / Courtesy: China Daily China’s coming out party continues with the latest installment of a major international sporting event. This time the dynamic new city of Shenzhen steps on to the world stage by hosting the 26th Summer Universiade. The Games is bringing much-needed infrastructure and building an identity for […]
China is watching nervously as the United States and Europe scramble to deal with their debt crises, fully conscious that economic events on both sides of the Atlantic play an important role in the country’s own economic prospects. There is little doubt there are concerns in China about potential knock-on […]
BEIJING – China has decided to lower the operating speed for its bullet trains due to safety concerns amid an overhaul of the high-speed rail system. The decision, made by an executive meeting of the State Council presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, came after a bullet train […]
MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — China’s first aircraft carrier, which set out on a low-profile sea trial Wednesday, will not shift the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region, a Russian expert says. The vessel, the former Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, has been totally refitted for its new role as […]