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I read a old Chinese novel recently, which talks about the importance bicycle in Chinese daily life back in 80s. Bicycle is reasonably affordable and would significantly improved people’s mobility. Most importantly It doesn’t consume any fuel to run apart from man power. It is a wonderful...

By Rédaction Africanews Egypt's first electrified light rail transit (LRT) system jointly built by Chinese and Egyptian companies started its trial run on Sunday. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took the first ride on the LRT at its inauguration ceremony, which was also attended by...

Recently I have a fireside chat with a good friend of mine about Industrial revolution, the role of productivity and cost advantage. We talked about how these basic economical factors underpins the human history over the last 500 years - the rise of Europe, then rise of US and fall of Europe and...

Ryan & Kaz Firpo defend the film's controversial Hiroshima bombing scene in which Brian Tyree Henry's Eternal Phastos blames himself for the tragedy. BY ADAM BENTZ PUBLISHED NOV 13, 2021 Eternals writers Ryan and Kaz Firpo defend the film's controversial Hiroshima bombing scene. The latest MCU...

China and Russia's leaders opened the giant "Power of Siberia" pipeline project on Monday. The 3,000-kilometer pipeline has been hailed as a sign of the close friendship between two of the world's superpowers. Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin launched a giant...

(Reuters) - France will not follow the United States and exclude China's Huawei from its next-generation 5G network, but will have the power to vet all equipment makers for any potential security threat, a minister said on Monday. French telecoms regulator Arcep kicked off the long-awaited...

By Wang Kaihao | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-11-26 13:49 Turkey returned two Chinese cultural relics, which were reportedly illegally taken abroad, to China on Nov 25, according to a statement of the National Cultural Heritage Administration. It is the first successful repatriation case...

by Andrew Jones — June 13, 2019 HELSINKI — Six experiments have been granted a place aboard to the future Chinese Space Station through a joint international cooperation initiative, with three more receiving conditional acceptance. The results of the selection process were announced jointly...

26 Apr 2019 New Delhi: China and India, the world’s second and third largest oil importers, respectively, are nearing an arrangement to form a buyers’ bloc to bargain collectively for oil supplies and reduce the influence of the Saudi Arabia-led cartel on oil prices, according to three...

By PTI | Apr 01, 2019 NEW DELHI: India operationalised its strategic ITBPcommand in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh-Ladakh district on Monday after moving it from Chandigarh as part of a plan to counter the ever-increasing Chinese military build up in the region. The North West (NW) frontier of the...

19.02.2019 It's a blow to the US' attempt to show Huawei the door. The UK isn't the only country skeptical of American hostility toward Huawei over spying fears. German officials talking to the Wall Street Journal say the country has made a "preliminary decision" to let Huawei bid on contracts...

17:31 18.02.2019 NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - India has emerged as Venezuela’s biggest crude buyer in February after US imposed sanctions on Latin American nation’s oil giant PDVSA, NDTV news channel reported. India has been importing 620,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil a day since early...

BY MICHELLE MEYERS FEBRUARY 17, 2019 The British government has reportedly concluded that any risks from the use of Huawei equipment in its 5G networks can be mitigated. That determination was made by the UK's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), according to a Financial Times report Sunday...

30 Jan 2019, Philstar MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines proposed before an international body to name an undersea feature off the coast of Sabah, in a rare move that is expected to rile Malaysian officials. On Oct. 25, 2018, the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority...

Huileng Tan | @huileng_tan CNBC.com China on Thursday reported exports and imports data for January that easily topped expectations. That better-than-expected news comes as Beijing's trade dispute with the U.S. and other factors lead investors to worry that China's economy — long an engine of...

ANI | Published: 09th February 2019 04:23 PM WASHINGTON: In a major disciplinary action against India’s trade and investment policies, Washington on Friday (local time) considered to withdraw the policy of zero tariffs on Indian exports to the United States. Khaleej Times quoted sources as...

8 min read Updated: 19 July 2018 Sudipto Mundle The recent increase in the minimum support prices (MSP) for major kharif crops has reignited the debate about food price policy. Some analysts believe that the increase has been excessive, that it will push up inflation, both directly and also...

An interesting talk by Raghuram Rajan in UC Berkeley regarding the economical issues that need to be addressed to prepare India for the 21st century. His talk covers a wide range of topics so I managed to note down a few key points: He thinks that the current GDP growth rate of circa 7% is...

By: Geoff Ziezulewicz   4 days ago A scathing internal Navy probe into the 2017 collision that drowned seven sailors on the guided-missile destroyer Fitzgerald details a far longer list of problems plaguing the vessel, its crew and superior commands than the service has publicly admitted...

What’s the bigger challenge for Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk: Helping thaw frosty relations between the U.S. and China, or getting the company’s planned $5 billion plant outside Shanghai up and running by the end of the year? Two days after Musk appeared at a...