Amnesty International has called for a letter campaign to pressure the Chinese government to release respected human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng who has been forcibly disappeared for nearly two years. In an urgent action alert, Amnesty International (AI) called upon the public to write letters to the Minister of Public Security, Zhao Kezhi, to call ...
Google has banned virtual private network (VPN) product adverts in China because of local legal restrictions. The action, however, seems to lend credence to the rumors that Google plans on re-entering the Chinese market with a censored search engine to work around China’s Great Firewall. Following policy or helping censorship efforts? Under its new policy, ...
The Dai people are one of China’s ethnic minorities. They are traditionally known as rice cultivators of the valleys — like the Shan, Lao, Ahom, and Thai people. Most of them live in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan Province, as well as in the Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai. History of the ...
Apart from gold and other precious metals, the Roman Empire used glass to create jewelry. Their precious jewelry gives us a comprehension of their culture and civilization. Just like other ancient societies, Rome also had its unique strata of interpersonal classes. In the Roman civilization, jewelry was used to show the cultural status of an ...
Research suggests future fusion reactors could be powered by helium-3 from the Moon. And now, nations are on a race to dig it up. However, compared to the past, when only a couple of nations like the U.S. and Russia had the technology to explore the Moon, the race to extract helium-3 is seeing increasing ...
A recent phenomenon in the Xinjiang region has surprised people — the Han and Uyghurs are developing an unlikely friendship because of parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in ...
Last month, Professor Bates Gill, a China expert at Macquarie University in Sydney, published an article in the Australian Financial Review entitled Bounded Engagement: Charting a New Era in Australia-China Relations. Professor Gill’s central argument is that despite the necessity of continued engagement and cooperation, Australia needs to redefine the boundaries of the Australia-China relationship ...
China is one of the richest and most diverse places on earth when it comes to cuisine. With a civilization spanning over 5,000 years, the Chinese have tinkered with every possible cooking method and food combination to come up with some lip-smacking delicacies. And for foodies who plan on visiting the country on a food ...
Lu Wei, the former head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on bribery charges. He was also fined 3 million yuan (US$450,000) and will not file an appeal against the verdict. Lu Wei sentenced for bribery Born in 1960, Lu Wei joined the state-backed Xinhua News Agency ...
The tall and robust Olympic athlete Martins Rubenis is a sports celebrity in Latvia. The master of the luge program has won many awards in international competitions — first place in the 1998 World Youth Championship, two more silver medals in 2003, bronze medals in the 2004 World Championships, and bronze medals in the 2005 ...
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