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“The reality in China is you never know if you’re going to get into trouble because there are no written rules,” he said in an interview last year. BEIJING — An award-winning photographer known for capturing images of China's environmental damage and the lives of the country's dispossessed has...

Turning the desert into detention camps China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite images of 39 of these facilities shows they are expanding at a rapid rate. A United...

Three Chinese nationals have been charged with attempting to bribe investigators working on an alleged ticketing scam in a massive Kenyan railway project. Some $10,000 (£8,000) a day was being stolen in the scheme, local media say. Officers were allegedly offered a $5,000 bribe, the prosecutor...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of 15 Western ambassadors in Beijing, spearheaded by Canada, are seeking a meeting with the top official in China’s restive, heavily Muslim Xinjiang region for an explanation of alleged rights abuses against ethnic Uighurs. The envoys are making their request in a...

In a big boost for Narendra Modi government, India climbed another 23 points in the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking to 77th place, becoming the top ranked country in South Asia for the first time and third among the BRICS. In the last two years the country has climbed 53 notches, a...

China's western Xinjiang region has written "vocational training centres" for Muslim Uighurs into law amid growing international concern over large-scale disappearances there. Xinjiang says the centres will tackle extremism through "thought transformation". Rights groups say detainees are made...

Was the new airport constructed by a Chinese company or was the aerobridge made by a Chinese company? An aerobridge for a flight at the Islamabad International Airport (IIA) collapsed on Monday, injuring an operator of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). As the Gulf Airline's flight GF771...

SHANGHAI: The next time you bite into your favourite donkey burger beware - it might actually be horse, pig or even mule meat. That is the warning from authorities in China after a media investigation revealed that some butchers in a city famed for its donkey burgers had engaged in a nefarious...

Beijing takes hard line after doctors, academics accused of ‘severely damaging’ country’s international reputation More than 480 Chinese doctors and academics associated with published research papers that were later deemed to be fraudulent will be punished for damaging the country’s...

Maj Gen Raj Mehta (retd) POSTED from the salubrious Defence Services Staff College to a Rashtriya Rifles sector in Doda district as Deputy Commander in 1997, we had just relocated the sector HQ on a rocky ledge overlooking the fast flowing Chenab at Suigwar, just outside the troublesome city...

The bullies of Urumqi The extraordinary ways in which China humiliates Muslims Bans on “abnormal” beards and even the name “Muhammad” CHINESE officials describe the far western province of Xinjiang as a “core area” in the vast swathe of territory covered by the country’s grandiose “Belt and...

Guyana has seized over 2,000 cases of tuna which were labelled 'BUIWICK' instead of 'BRUNSWICK'. The knockoff product bears a similar label design to the well-known brand Brunswick, however, the exact address of the manufacturer in China was not yet known. Guyana's Food and Drug Analyst...

https://www.statista.com/study/43370/made-in-country-index-mici-2017/ According to the latest Made in Country Index, people rate Made in India higher than Made in China. Despite being the world's factory why is the Made in China tag still seen as a bad thing? And what is China and the Chinese...

In report to parliament, chief justice singles out prominent lawyer's 'severe punishment' as one of top accomplishments. China has praised punishments given to a prominent human rights lawyer and his associates as one of its legal system's top accomplishments last year. In an annual report to...

A lack of education over what the Communist Party refers to as ‘feudal superstitions’ is fuelling a rise in anti-Islam rhetoric, prompting fears that online tensions will spill over into real-world conflict. When Aysha Xiong posted online photographs of herself and two roommates sporting...

INVESTIGATION:Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung said authorities are trying to identify those involved in the production and distribution of the counterfeits Counterfeit batches of Crestor brand lipid-lowering drugs contained ingredients from Chinese pharmaceutical producers...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the real economy is the foundation for China achieving economic growth and getting an upper hand in international economic competition, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Xi made the remarks to the delegation of Liaoning province, which has...

BOGUS BUILDINGS China didn’t just copy Tower Bridge, they also have an Austrian town, an Eiffel Tower and a Colosseum China has several copycat towns based on places across Europe and America, although many buildings lie empty China has long been a destination for tourists keen to stock up on...

Did you know that your product might be copied in China even before you ship it? While copying happens elsewhere, including Facebook blatantly copying Snapchat features or Google Home being a strong echo of Amazon's echo, Chinese copycats can be particularly aggressive. Realistically, the...

Economic output in China’s northeastern industrial province of Liaoning shrank by 23 per cent in nominal terms last year, according to official statistics — showing the extent to which officials had previously exaggerated performance in China’s struggling rust-belt. The sudden drop in...