Silk Road

Asia can be beguiling and, at times, baffling. Whether youre drifting along the Mekong, docking at one of Chinas recently expanded port cities or checking out the European colonial heritage of Singapore or Vietnam, a cruise around Asia will provide an edifyin…

China’s historic Silk Road helped to bring Chinese goods to other countries and vice versa. However, over the last half century, most valuable global goods have been coming to container ports, beating all other types of marine cargo in profitability. Now Bei…

The main intersection gives the store a first impression of calm and low-key. Image © Fangfang Tian + 27 Interiors Designers Location GF, BLDG 21, Columbia Circle, 1262 Yan'an Xi Road, Shanghai, China Category …

The reopening of Pakistani airspace to civil aviation was timed to coincide with PM Khan’s upcoming trip to the US, which is an extremely bad omen for India because it suggests that the resumption of its Afghan air corridor across Pakistani territory might be…

Dry-fried noodles at Silk Road’s Cambridge location | Rachel Leah Blumenthal/Eater Silk Road Express, connected to Cambridge restaurant Silk Road, recently opened inside Super 88 Market Allston just got a spot for Uyghur cuisine. Cambridge-based Uyghur restau…

July 5, 2018: A Djiboutian woman takes part in reheasals ahed of the ribbon cutting for the Djibouti International Free Trade Zone, a Chinese-backed venture in the Horn of Africa country. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images Red-and-gold Chinese banners hang outsid…

PARIS (Reuters) - France's finance minister said on Tuesday the post-war international monetary order needed to be reinvented or become increasingly dominated by China. The pillars of that order, the International Monetary Fund and its sister institution the…

The 2019 Silk Way Rally is over and 5,000 kilometers of tracks - from the Siberian forests, across the Mongolian steppes, to the giant dunes of the Gobi Desert - are behind us, from Irkutsk and lake Baikal, across Mongolia and China. Motorcyclists are featur…

Customs data showed trade with BRI countries for the period was up 9.7 percent year-on-year. It has outpaced the growth rate of China’s total trade, which remained stable at 3.9 percent. Exports and imports with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were up by 11.5…

© GVL Gossamer GLV Gossamer has released images of their design for a 19 kilometer stretch of waterfront along the Jing River in Xian, China. The proposal, a finalist in an international design competition, celebrates the sites history at the origin of the S…