Silk Road

Editors Note: Major powers have never fought over Antarctica, and indeed its peaceful status is a diplomatic success that has lasted decades. David Fishman, a former Brookings intern, argues that this may be changing, a development driven in part by climate c…

Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing (Photo: File) PESHAWAR: Chinese government has approved construction of 58 schools in erstwhile Fata and 30 hospitals in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing said on Saturday. Our forefathers belong to the region now …

Posted October 24, 2019 19:41:55 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has signed a new deal with the Chinese Government to deepen the state's engagement with the controversial Belt and Road initiative. The deal has angered some in the Morrison Government who …

PETALING JAYA: Former DAP member Hew Kuan Yau has quit as the CEO of the Malaysia-China Business Council (MCBC) after the comic book saga, saying that it is now time for him to concentrate on his "own interests". In a media statement dated Oct 24, Hew, who i…

Photograph Source: The Yellow River in Lanzhou seen from the park of the White Pagoda – CC BY-SA 2.5 es Coming to China every few months has almost become a regular occurrence for me, though this time I am in a part of China I have not been to before.…

No high-level EU official was to be found at the opening of a two-day Silk Road Forum in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Tuesday (22 October), which was attended by 2,000 delegates from some 60 countries, including several EU member states. Across numerous panels, the …

Posted October 23, 2019 06:05:41 At the turn of the millennium, former US president Bill Clinton declared that China's efforts to censor the internet was akin to "nailing jello to the wall". Key points: Big Chinese and Western companies were in …

The Middle Eastern course of hummus, feta cheese, lamb skewers and smoked duck. KUALA LUMPUR: It is a little strange to find a Frenchman the size of an anchovy running across your plate during dinner time. Even stranger is how he takes you on a journey from…

Prepare for immediate readjustment of your bucket lists, because the best places to visit in 2020 have been named by the adventure experts at Lonely Planet and its Bhutan thats the No1 country, followed by England. Lonely Planet's newly released Best In Trav…

TAIPEI - Floating trash speckles the worlds oceans, some of which are running low on fish. Now China, a source of those problems and dominant force in several Asian maritime sovereignty disputes, indicates it will work with other countries to improve those se…