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Hey guys, The old PDF had an option to re-arrange posts in a thread by most recent to the oldest. (So the first post I see after clicking on a thread is the last, not the first post) It that still an option? If so, how would I go about achieving that? Thanks!

One of the longest bridges in northern China collapsed on Friday, just nine months after it opened, setting off a storm of criticism from Chinese Internet users and underscoring questions about the quality of construction in the country’s rapid expansion of its infrastructure. A nearly...

Sinkhole swallows minibus First pedestrian swallowing sidewalks, now comes bus swallowing roads...? How is this country ever going to convince foreigners or even its own populace of China quality?

Chinese authorities are investigating disturbing reports that thousands of pills intercepted by South Korean border officials were manufactured in China to contain the desiccated powder remains of human babies, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The English-language Korea...

fyi UNCUT: GIRL FALLS IN HOLE (DRAMATIC VIDEO) - YouTube Look at the sophistication in that cement technology. China quality at its best! Girl falls through pavement in China - video | World news | guardian.co.uk

The successful launch of India's first intercontinental ballistic missile sparked predictably excited rhetoric in Asia's two biggest powers. Indian commentators hailed the nation's membership of the elite club of nations possessing such weapons and TV channels looped footage of the test off the...

India is to test-launch a new nuclear-capable missile that for the first time would give it the capability of hitting the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai. The Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000km (3,100 miles), will thrust the emerging Asian power into an elite club of nations...

The IMF is publishing interesting estimates. Some highlighted toll baits include: Canada remains wealthier than the United States, Japan and Taiwan with GDP per capita at $51,688.600, $49,601.410, $46,972.605 and $20,502.704 respectively. Canada's economy at #10 will remain larger than India's...

The governor of Tokyo said the city has decided to buy a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea to bolster Japanese claims to the territory, a move that could elevate tensions with China. Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Monday that the city was close to reaching an agreement with the...

The last five Chinese fishing boats at the centre of a dangerous impasse between China and the Philippines have left a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, diffusing the standoff, officials say. A spokesman for the Philippine department of foreign affairs, Raúl Hernández, confirmed that the...

Defying weeks of international warnings of more censure and further sanctions, North Korea launched a rocket on Friday, an act that the United States called a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that one day might be able to carry a nuclear warhead. But the three-stage...

On the Hertz stand at the New York auto show, next to a Chevrolet Volt equipped for wireless charging, was a BYD E6 battery car from China. Two of the electric crossovers are on the road in a Hertz rental program in Shenzhen, China, and they’re also being readied for fleets in the United States...

Less than four years after Huawei Technologies and Symantec teamed up to develop computer network security products, the joint venture is being dismantled because Symantec feared the alliance with the Chinese company would prevent it from obtaining United States government classified information...

Australia has blocked Huawei Technologies of China from bidding on contracts in the $38 billion Australian National Broadband Network, citing security concerns, Huawei said Monday. “We were informed by the government that there is no role for Huawei” in the network, said Jeremy Mitchell, a...

China has detained 21 Vietnamese fishermen in the South China Sea, according to reports on Thursday that cited Vietnamese officials. An official from Quang Ngai Province, where the fishermen are from, told The Associated Press that they were detained on March 3 near the Paracel Islands, which...

Amid parks and lakes on the outskirts of Islamabad sits the gleaming, three-storey Pakistan-China Friendship Centre. The centre, which cost an estimated £35m, houses an 800-seat auditorium, exhibition centre, dining facilities, conference rooms, banquet halls, dance and art facilities...

When China recently confirmed that Seychelles would be used as a refuelling port for its navy, it revived popular fears in India of becoming encircled in the Indian Ocean by its larger Asian neighbour. "Chinese military base in Indian Ocean?" ran the headline of a report in the Times of...

Beijing's growing stake in Asean, the region's economic bloc, part of a calculated bid for greater military and political influence In 2015, south-east Asia will become one sprawling economic zone encompassing Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the...

Every year, Times Higher Education, a magazine in Britain, rates universities on the quality of their teaching and research. In 2011, it began a separate ranking based on a more nebulous criterion: a school’s reputation according to the opinions of about 17,000 academics. Last Thursday...

The Chinese city of Nanjing has suspended its sister-city relationship with Nagoya in Japan after the Japanese city’s mayor expressed doubts that the Japanese army’s 1937 Nanjing Massacre actually took place, the Nagoya City Hall said on Wednesday. The falling out began on Monday...