Silk Road

Twenty years ago, Sultan Restaurant opened in Guangzhou with a simple goal: to serve honest Turkish food to a small community of traders far from home.  Two decades on, it has grown into one of China’s best-known names for halal Turkish cuisine, with locations across Guangzhou, Yiwu, Urumqi, Beijing, and…

by December 10, 2025 Photo Kevin Henry (right) is escorted by ambulance to the Chinese medical ship, Silk Road Ark yesterday. The ship is docked in Port Royal. Seconds before he was transported out of an ambulance into a wheelchair bound for the People's Republic of China medical ship, Silk…

December 09, 2025 Photo Members of Jamaica Guangdong Association tour the Silk Road Ark at the Port Royal Cruise Terminal on Monday. After serving almost 2,000 patients in Montego Bay, St James, the People's Republic of China's advanced navy hospital ship, the Silk Road Ark, docked at the Port Royal…

Tourists have fun at the Silk Road Ski Resort in the suburban area of Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Dec. 3, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaocheng) * Xinjiang is emerging as a popular world-class destination thanks to China's policies that facilitate visas, payments and accommodation for inbound tourists. * Visitors…

A staff member introduces musical instruments to visitors during an exhibition themed on various music cultures along the ancient Silk Road at Guangzhou Maritime Museum in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 29, 2025. The exhibition kicked off here on Saturday, showcasing 143 ancient musical instruments from countries along the…

Leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis) lived alongside people in China for thousands of years before domestic cats arrived with Silk Road merchants. (Image credit: Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Getty Images) Humans were living alongside leopard cats in settlements in ancient China more than 3,500 years before domestic cats arrived, new research shows. The findings…

The Middle East is no longer asking whether it should develop domestic space capabilities; it’s deciding with whom it will develop them. If the United States wants to be the country of choice ahead of China, it must create a joint space partnership agreement framework to align American and partner…

When I received the invitation to come to Kunming city of Yunnan province in South Western China for the 2025 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road and Silk Road Global News Award, I never imagined that it would be a remarkable opportunity for me to explore most of the…

The opening ceremony of the Global Mayors Dialogue Dunhuang is held in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 13, 2025. A forum bringing together mayors or their representatives, diplomats and scholars from 10 countries opened on Monday in Dunhuang, a city along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Gansu…

The accession ceremony of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III) is held at the Hunan Museum in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Oct. 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai) CHANGSHA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two volumes of Chinese silk manuscripts dating back about 2,300 years have been returned…