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BEIJING: Deriding India's democratic system, official Chinese media here on Thursday defended ruling Communist Party's monopoly on power, saying if China had opted for democracy it would have become another India "where around 20 per cent of the world's poorest live". "Hindsight shows us that...

By Alexia Vlachou, February 20, 2015 ATHENS, Feb. 19 -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday praised bilateral cooperation between his country and China and sent best wishes to Chinese people for the Chinese Lunar New Year. "We will seek new ways of cooperation between the Greek...

BEIJING: A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang's members, a court in central China said on Monday. Liu Han had been chairman of energy conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group in the southwestern...

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新京报快讯(记者杨锋 实习生马金凤)2月1日下午4点30分，浙江玉环县一名老人摔倒在马路中间，8分钟时间内，4辆车和23名行人路过，除一位老人上前询问外，其余人都只是看看，无人搀扶。最终，老人遭一辆白色轿车拦腰碾过，并被拖行一段距离。 　　今日上午11点，新京报记者从玉环县委宣传部一负责人处了解，摔倒老人为当地一酗酒老人，被碾压后当场死亡。老人所在村的村主任也证实了此说法。村主任解释，无人扶是因为该老人是当地出了名的酒鬼，平时喝完酒常耍酒疯，耍无赖。 　　监控：8分钟无人扶...

PTI Jan 28, 2015, 06.06 PM IST NEW DELHI: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi will set up a research and development unit in Bangalore, its first such facility outside of its home country, as it looks to beef up presence in the booming Indian smartphone market. The company, which expects the centre...

There stands a catholic church in Mangkang County, Tibet autonomous region, where Catholicism and Buddhism coexist peacefully. Sometimes people with different religion come from same family.

Admittedly, they are British’s best friend, docile, loyal, and ready to bark at anyone just at the slightest nod of their master. However, times has changed, those “disillusioned” are doomed to the fate of stray dogs.

China’s economy, the world’s second largest, grew 7.4 percent last year, its slowest expansion in nearly a quarter century. Forecasters expect growth to wane further in the next several years as China emphasizes consumption over polluting heavy industry and manufacturing, which suffer from...

A Hong Kong employer accused of starving and beating her Indonesian maid treated the woman as an “unpaid slave”, prosecutors said on Tuesday on the last day of hearings in a case which has shocked the city. In the course of the six-week trial, 23-year-old Erwiana Sulistyaningsih described in...

With Hong Kong increasingly polarised on political reforms and fears growing over the influence of Beijing, frustrated residents are pressing former colonial power Britain to offer them an escape route. Their push for a new status that would allow them right of abode in Britain reflects their...

Kenji Goto, one of the two Japanese hostages who appeared in an online video posted by the Islamic State extremist group, is a devout Christian and a seasoned journalist known for his vigilance when reporting in conflict zones, according to people who know him. The other hostage is Haruna...

Japanese prime minister has few options to act after ISIS holds two citizens to $200 million ransom Militants said the demands were in retaliation for $200 million in aid that Abe had pledged just days earlier to countries opposing ISIS forces fighting in Syria and Iraq. Abe likes to present...

CAIRO: An online video released Tuesday purported to show the Islamic State group threatening to kill two Japanese hostages unless they receive a $200 million ransom in the next 72 hours. The video, identified as being made by the Islamic State group's al-Furqan media arm and posted on militant...

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By David Pilling January 15, 2015 For years, we were used to China growing at double-digit rates; now it is slowing and India may overtake its neighbour by 2017. When India put a cut-price satellite in orbit around Mars last September, one media company could not resist a comparison with...

happen to find a few Vietnamese old pictures,those pictures were taken in 1915,very interesting.:-) government officials. A scholar. one couplet on the pillar reads 花草庭前富(贵)春 which means in spring blossoming flowers and flourishing grass in courtyard bring with prosperity and nobility ...

Vietnam rejects rumor of death of anti-corruption leader Nguyen Ba Thanh Nguyen Ba Thanh, Chief of the Central Internal Affairs Commission of Vietnam and deputy head of the central anti-corruption committee, is still being treated for myelodysplastic syndrome in the U.S., a Vietnamese health...

The Hanoi City People’s Committee has issued new regulations to tighten management on overseas missions taken by city officials. Under a new regulation signed by Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, deputy chairwoman of the committee, on December 29, officials at the municipal level are not allowed to join...

China’s military is touting its introduction of new weapons platforms in 2014 and says that having done so publicly underlines its commitment to transparency. The new platforms comprise air, sea and land assets, including a stealth jet fighter, destroyers and a main battle tank. “A series of...