November 2010

China: Beauty found at saintly tomb

Wed, 11/10/2010 - 11:00

For a minute I thought we were going to have a punch-up at the holiest Muslim shrine in the legendary Silk Road trading town of Kashgar.

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Anti-China rally held in Japan after video leak of collision

Wed, 11/10/2010 - 11:00

About 4,000 anti-China protesters rallied in Tokyo on Saturday, with their anger fuelled by a video capturing a collision between Chinese and Japanese vessels which sparked a diplomatic spat.

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Language opens another rift between Tibetans, Chinese

Wed, 11/10/2010 - 11:00

Billboards for a planned business and entertainment complex in Tongren show sketches of ethnic Tibetans in traditional clothes happily walking among fancy new buildings.

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That Nobel invite? Mr. Malware sent it

Wed, 11/10/2010 - 11:00

This weekend, staff at CPJ received a personal invitation to attend the Oslo awards ceremony for Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo. 

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Uighurs precariously caught between two powers

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:00

The community of Uighurs in Rawalpindi’s China Market is small and close-knit.

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Chinese Officials Push Xinjiang Water Plan

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:00

Local officials in China's arid northwest have launched a new push for a vast water-diversion project that would pump raw sea water thousands of miles from the coast to the deserts of Xinjiang through a pipeline made of plastic and fiberglass.

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China actions meant as test, Hillary Clinton says

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:00

A SERIES of recent aggressive actions by China were designed to test other nations, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared.

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Deeper US alliance in response to strident China

Tue, 11/09/2010 - 11:00

GILLARD Labor has sensibly decided to support a bigger American presence.

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China builds a 'new Silk Road' to pave over its troubles

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 11:00

The restive Urumqi area of western China is being cemented to Beijing by a billion-dollar investment into rail, road and air links.

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Rudd returns, preaching third way on China

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 11:00

THE Foreign Minister delivers a subtle but still worthwhile message.

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