Holding Sway

In the spring of 1963, a French geologist set out from Kabul to carry out a survey in Logar province in eastern Afghanistan. His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak. But in the ...

Zheng Enchong, a Chinese rights lawyer, smells a rat: after being under almost continual house arrest for over seven years, he has been allowed to leave his home, speak with a U. S. diplomat, and even travel to Hong Kong to lecture. The flurry of ...

THE Jinshan Sweet Melon Festival is underway at Zhujing water town - and for the first time Shanghai's sweetest, gold-medal melons are available downtown. Tan Weiyun reports. Jinshan is mellow with the sweet fragrance of ripe watermelons. The ...

Local authorities tried to pre-empt protests on Saturday, as residents gathered to demonstrate against a large-scale petrochemical plant being built on a fault line in Sichuan Province. Located in Pengzhou near Chengdu, the 40 billion yuan plant ...

Five years after a devastating earthquake left more than 80,000 people dead and missing in the southwestern province of Sichuan, Chinese rights activists have launched a campaign for the release of a prominent writer jailed for investigating ...

Since Chinese Communist Party Leader Xi Jinping took power in November 2012 he has cast himself in the role of a tiger hunter , saying that in fighting corruption the Party not only has to go after the flies, but also the tigers. According to a Hong ...

Before he kicked off the biggest political storm in recent Chinese communist history last February after attempting to defect at a U.S. Consulate in southwestern China, police chief Wang Lijun supervised the cutting of thousands of organs from the ...

For the first time, Indian and China will be discussing in Beijing on Thursday on the unfolding situation in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of foreign troops next year. Both the sides hope to find a common cause in ensuring stability in the ...

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