Silk Road

Nearly 750 years ago, Marco Polo famously undertook several voyages from Venice across the Mediterranean Sea, overland through Persia and Central Asia to the court of the great Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty, which presided over perhaps the largest empire in world history.…

By Matthew Ehret for VT Canada With Monday’s 1000 point stock market plunge the internet has been set ablaze with a discussion of a new crash looming on the horizon. The fact that such a chain reaction collapse was only kept at bay due to massive liquidity injections by the…

Libya’s recent request for the US to open up a base in the North African country under the pretext of supposedly fighting terrorism, countering organized crime, and “containing” Russia reveals just how desperate the Turkish-backed government has become since it hopes that the anticipated American military presence there would accomplish…

An Irish drug dealer has lost acces to a bitcoin fortune worth millions of euros after the access codes were reportedly sent to a landfill site. Clifton Collins, 49, wrote the private keys to digital wallets containing 6,000 bitcoin onto a sheet of A4 paper, which he hid in a fishing rod…

Getty ImageIf you’re like most people, it’s been over two years since you first either dipped your toe into the cryptocurrency waters or dove in headfirst after deciding to take the advice of a friend who swore dumping everything you had into Bitcoin was your ticket to getting rich. If…

Op-Ed by Neenah Payne The coronavirus scare must not distract us from understanding the multiple challenges China poses to the world under President Xi Jinping. We are witnessing not just the rise of China, but also the rise of perhaps the world’s first global leader. Since the Chinese constitution was…

Photo: ICThe COVID-19 outbreak in China has begun to decline outside Hubei Province, meanwhile in some countries it is on the rise. This fully shows that the epidemic is a challenge faced by all humanity and needs to be addressed by all countries. China's experience in combating the outbreak shows…

When the Centre stripped Jammu and Kashmir of special status under Article 370 and split the state into two Union Territories, one of the main rationales given for the decision was this: special status was a “hurdle for the development of Kashmir”. At the same time, it revoked Article 35A,…

Guests wait for the start of the “China, We are With You” fashion show from Chinese designer Han Wen, who is based in New York, kicking off the fashion week in Milan on February 18, 2020. – Milan Fashion Week kicks off on February 18, but coronavirus proves to damper…

GIUSEPPE LAMI/APChinese President Xi Jinping has overseen an aggressive Chinese move into Africa.OPINION: Much has been written about the "two faces" of China. In The New York Times in 2005, Joseph Kahn compared China's wish to be viewed as an emerging, benevolent superpower with the reality that China might resort…