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Booming exports from Russia, which had already been the largest supplier of natural gas to the continent, have nearly maxed out European natural gas storage capacity and added to what was already an oversupply of natural gas in the region. This will likely pu…

People's Daily Online (China Daily) 15:57, June 15, 2019 President Xi Jinping said he hopes that the Tibet autonomous region will seize opportunities for development in a congratulatory letter sent to the 2019 Forum on the Development of Tibet held on Frid…

Whether its through its recent anti-satellite missile test, its newly created de-facto Space Force, or its plans to build a space station around 2030, Indias stepping up the pace of the South Asian space race and greatly destabilizing the region in the proces…

The Secretary of State told the audience at the US-India Business Council meeting earlier this week that he didnt want to spoil the surprise by spilling all the details of what he plans to talk about during his upcoming trip to India on 24 June, but what he d…

It’s been well over a year since the then-United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis accused Russia and China of being “revisionist powers” each working its way toward making a power grab on the world stage and announced that the U.S. would be shifting its…

Iran Press TV Fri Jun 14, 2019 09:31AM Chinese President Xi Jinping says Beijing will continue to promote steady development of ties with Tehran no matter how the situation changes. He made the remarks on Friday during a meeting with Iranian President Hass…

Hong Kong (CNN)Smiling broadly as he strode into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in June 2018 alongside a group of world leaders, Chinese President Xi Jinping had never looked stronger. Less than one week later, however, the United States …

Since China first issued currency notes during the Tang Dynasty (618 A.D. to 907 A.D.), cash has been the medium of choice for business transactions across the globe. After the fall of the Roman Empire, silver and coins were used to facilitate most transactio…

Cannabis has been cultivated as an oil-seed and fibre crop for millennia in East Asia. Little is known, however, about the early use and eventual cultivation of the plant for its psychoactive and medicinal properties. Despite being one of the most widely used…

Archaeologists have dug up evidence that people were catching a cannabis buzz way, way before Woodstock, before the Summer of Love and even before there were jazz clubs or alarmist movies warning of "Reefer Madness." Apparently, the use of cannabis as a min…