Silk Road

At Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on Monday. (Photo: Reuters) Tuesday, October 1, marks the 70th anniversary of the Peoples Republic of China, which Beijing will mark with the biggest ever celebrations and a joyful atmosphere. The celebrations will be an affirm…

On March 16, 1897, in a dusty Chicago square, an expert shot walked eight paces, raised his revolver and fired at the chest of the Reverend Casimir Zeglen. A 35-year-old priest then serving at St. Stanislaus' Roman Catholic Church in the city, Zeglen was hit …

Open Call: XIAN TRAIN STATION Manni Group and YAC - Young Architects Competitions launch XiAn Train Station, a competition of ideas to design a new rail terminal that will define the meeting point between East and West in the city where the famous Terracotta…

The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia, as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road" strategy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker inked the accord to coordi…

Brussels (AFP) - The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road" strategy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker inked the …

The agreement formally seals Japan’s engagement in the new EU-Asia connectivity plan and was signed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the Europa Connectivity Forum in Brussels on Friday. “Whether i…

The EU-Japan agreement stresses on importance of projects being sustainable, environmentally and fiscallyBrussels, Belgium: The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia, as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road…

BEIJING When Turkeys leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Beijing this summer, he hailed a new Silk Road bridging Asia and Europe. He welcomed big Chinese investments for his beleaguered economy. He gushed about Chinas sovereignty. But Mr. Erdogan, who has …

(Reuters) - China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1 with flowers, speeches, performances and a massive military parade though central Beijing. The 70 years since the end of the civil war, in which Communists and Nationali…

On a path winding around the Dalai Lama’s temple, in a village near Dharamsala, India, called McLeod Ganj, I met a monk who taught me the meaning of om mani padme hum—“all hail the jewel in the lotus”—while he scattered handfuls of rice on top of a concrete w…