Tuesday 21 May 2013 ARABNEWS.COM BEIJING: A 28-year-old Chinese man who was kidnapped 23 years ago and sold to a family 1,500 km from his home, has met up with…
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24,…
STORY SUMMARY By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star It might be coincidental timing or just a really bad case of mean-spirited in-your-face aggressive Israeli diplomacy. In the same week…
Source: China Daily An international survey on domestic violence that interviewed more than 2,000 Chinese found that half of male respondents confessed they have physically or sexually abused their wives…
Reuters / JORDAN TIMES BEIJING — China will host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week for separate bilateral talks as it tries to shore…
Source: China Daily SHENYANG – A robot industrial base with an estimated annual output of 50 billion yuan (8 billion U.S. dollars) will be established in northeast China’s Liaoning Province,…
Source: China Daily The $300 million scholarship fund for foreign students to study in China launched by US private equity tycoon Stephen Schwarzman represents a “remarkably ambitious” effort to boost…
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in southwestern China has left 156 dead and more than 5,500 people injured, Reuters reports. The Chinese army has stepped in to deal with the debris…
Source: CNN The discovery of an old tomb in China has repercussions beyond the history books and academic debates of scholars — it also means tourists to an existing tomb…
Source: A Times: Most analysis went as follows. The pope is sovereign of the smallest internationally recognized independent state in the world by population; the president of China heads the…
Source: A times: By M K Bhadrakumar Writing in the Los Angeles Times a year ago, predicting with extraordinary prescience how exasperating the American efforts to negotiate an Afghan settlement…
Source: BBC China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users. The collaboration will produce a version of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system called Kylin which…
by Xudong Yang and Dahai Shao, swissinfo.ch Mar 15, 2013 When peasant Yang Zhifa found a piece of old terracotta as he dug a well, he thought he’d stumbled on…
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The names of popes are policy statements on the governance of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is no coincidence that the…
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