Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana Rajakanya yesterday presided over the opening of the Donkoi Sustainable Village, a community-based learning centre that utilises traditional indigo dyeing wisdom in this northeastern province.Continue Reading
JAKARTA – On the surface, Indonesia’s decision to divide the Co2-heavy East Natuna gas field into three separate blocks is an effort to revive it as an economic proposition employing new carbon capture technology. Beneath the surface, the move may also be aimed at resisting China’s efforts to enforce its illegal nine-dash line of territorial […]Continue Reading
It happened after power grids were turned on in the morning, the power minister said.Continue Reading
WUHAN: Residents of China’s Wuhan said Monday (Jan 23) they were hopeful for the future and no longer afraid of COVID-19, three years after the city was locked down over what was then a mysterious virus. Since Beijing ordered Wuhan sealed off in a bid to suffocate the outbreak inContinue Reading
On Thursday, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Transport announced that “representatives of Uzbekistan’s Temir Yollari JSC, the national railway company, arrived in the Kyrgyz Republic to participate in the opening of a joint Project Office to coordinate the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway.” This news was not an isolated event but rather further confirmation that […]Continue Reading
Dwarka has managed to reverse land subsidence by boosting groundwater levels.Continue Reading
China’s population has started to decline and this has set off a Pavlovian negative reaction – via the news media – of the sort that we have seen before in the case of Japan. Reuters warns that the news “sounds alarm on demographic crisis.” CNN predicts that the “impact will be felt around the world”, […]Continue Reading
Wuhan, a metropolis on the banks of the Yangtze River now synonymous with COVID-19, reported the first cases in late 2019 of what was then a killer virus. Authorities imposed a strict shutdown just two days before the Year of the Rat in late January 2020 to stop the spreadContinue Reading
About 240 direct flights are expected to fly from China to Thailand during the Chinese New Year holiday, according to the Aeronautical Radio of Thailand (Aerothai).Continue Reading
PENT-UP NEED President Xi Jinping said this week which he was concerned about a good influx of travellers to rural areas with poor medical systems, and that protecting the elderly : many of whom aren’t fully vaccinated – was a top priority. China reported a huge jump in COVID-19 hospitalisationsContinue Reading