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Staff in the lavish library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were assembling huge display boards to commemorate the 90th birthday of the CPC.
It has been reported that China’s sovereign wealth fund is about to receive new capital from the government.
She wrote 39 novels, eight books of short stories, 16 children’s and 25 non-fiction books, including separate biographies of each of her parents.
Millions of people around the world watched a display that presented China as modern, powerful, energetic and rich.
On a corner of the eastern extension of the Avenue of Eternal Peace, Beijing’s oldest and newest cultures lie in bizarre proximity.
There is little to cheer a United States president on a visit to Latin America these days. Where it once enforced its will on the region, the US now looks increasingly out of…
Fumin county, a hitherto obscure district in south-west China, became the object of international mockery last week when news reached the outside world that the bare slopes of…
Violence and a dramatically low turnout marred the first elections for seven years in Nepal on Wednesday — polls the king had described as the first step back to democracy for…
In 1993, after 15 years of rapid growth, China’s exports had barely crept back to where they were in 1928. By 2000 the dollar economy, hailed as the future engine of global…
Bolivia’s president of 15 months, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, was protesting to the last when he finally resigned last Friday after months of street protests. His resignation, he…
Diehard defenders of military intervention in Iraq argue that it’s too soon to carp, that time is required to restore order and prosperity to a country ravaged by every type of…
This month, on a date yet to be agreed, Britain will hand over command of the 18-nation United Nations security force in Afghanistan to Turkey. The arrangement was agreed, not…
Why does photographer Ian van Coller cut off the heads of his subjects? SUZY BELL finds out IN the beginning, the gods gave all the seeds and plants to the animals of the world…
