Silk Road

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…

Monday, October 21, 2019 Don't count on Wall St. to predict an earnings recession As of Friday, Wall Streets top stock market strategists as a consensus expect the S&P 500 (^GSPC) to deliver 10.4% of earnings per share growth in 2020. Its a number so ro…

What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. Ive tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way:  Its a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell a…

As China continues to court more countries to join its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India has made its position very clear that it wont be participating because of a territorial dispute, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Yahoo Finance…

ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Turkey is working intensively to surpass its current trade volume with China -- $20 billion -- focusing on high value-added projects within a win-win framework, the head of the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TIM) said on Oct. 18. The B…