by Shafqat Ali ISLAMABAD, July 8 (Gwadar Pro) – Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the way forward as it connects the whole region, representatives from eight countries including Pakistan and China concluded Wednesday.The Pakistan-China Institute (PCI) convened the first-ever Non-Governmental Online Conference on Belt and Road Initiative BRI, of which the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]
Read MoreScientists have identified the fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird that could be the biggest flying bird ever found. With an estimated 20-24-foot wingspan, the creature surpassed size estimates based on wing bones from the previous record holder — a long-extinct bird named Argentavis magnificens — and was twice as big as the Royal […]
Read MoreTibetans were able to adapt to high altitudes thanks to a gene picked up when their ancestors mated with a species of human they helped push to extinction, according to a new report by University of California, Berkeley, scientists. An unusual variant of a gene involved in regulating the body’s production of hemoglobin — the […]
Read MoreMysteries about controversial signals coming from a dwarf star considered to be a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life now have been solved in research led by scientists at Penn State University. The scientists have proven, for the first time, that some of the signals, which were suspected to be coming from two […]
Read MoreBy Huang Lanlan – Global Times The Indian government’s sudden decision to ban 59 apps from China, including the widely used TikTok and WeChat, has caught millions of users across India by surprise, depriving them of one of this year’s most popular tools for recreation and education, and even incurring economic losses to those who […]
Read MoreBy Chen Xi – Global Times A center for Chinese language education and cooperation has been launched under the Ministry of Education and the brand of Confucius Institutes will be fully operated by a newly established non-governmental foundation, according to a statement posted by China’s Confucius Institute Headquarters. The move will better facilitate Chinese language […]
Read MoreAn 1,800-year-old stone carving of what may be the head of a Roman god was recently found in an ancient garbage dump, British archaeologists announced. An undergraduate student at Durham University discovered the largely intact head during an archaeological dig at the Binchester Roman Fort, a major Roman Empire fort built around A.D. 100 in […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The US House’s passage of a bill sanctioning banks doing businesses with Chinese officials, the latest bluffing response to China’s implementation of the national security law for Hong Kong, is only a piece of waste paper, and the US knows deeply that it can achieve nothing in shaking China’s determination to push forward […]
Read MoreFifteen people are believed dead and nine are missing on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu as devastating rains cause flooding and landslides. Fourteen victims were found in the same flooded nursing home while the other was pulled from a landslide. The deaths have yet to be formally certified. The authorities have ordered more than 200,000 […]
Read MoreIn 1977, two spacecraft started a mission that has redefined our knowledge of the Solar System – and will soon become our ambassadors on a journey into the unknown. lets look at their legacy, 40 years after launch. You’ll find everything from the story about the world’s greatest space mission to the truth about whether […]
Read MoreAt least 21 members of Peshawar’s Sikh community along with a Muslim van driver lost their lives on Friday when the Lahore-bound Shah Hussain Express train crashed into their vehicle as it attempted to cross train tracks near Sheikhupura, authorities said. The passengers of the van had been travelling from Peshawar to Nankana Sahib to […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net The Communist Party of China (CPC), the world’s largest political party, celebrated its 99th birthday as the country is consolidating its economic recovery amid the COVID-19 epidemic. Official data shows activities in many Chinese industries, from auto manufacturing to e-commerce, are returning to pre-epidemic levels. Given the country’s solid pace of recovery, […]
Read MoreAt least 162 bodies have been found after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, officials say. Rescue work has continued all day for people still missing at the site in the Hpakant area of Kachin state. A wave of mud and rock triggered by heavy rain engulfed those collecting stones, the […]
Read MoreMystery surrounds the “completely unprecedented” deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana over the last two months. Dr Niall McCann said colleagues in the southern African country had spotted more than 350 elephant carcasses in the Okavango Delta since the start of May. No one knows why the animals are dying, with lab results on […]
Read MoreMoscow: Russians have overwhelmingly backed constitutional reforms that will allow President Vladimir Putin to potentially extend his rule to 2036, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said Thursday. With all votes counted, the CEC said that 77.92 percent of voters had backed the reforms, with a turnout of about 65 percent. Just over 21.2 percent had […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Six years ago, Hu Zhengnan decided to temporarily leave his office job at a geological survey institute. He signed up to join a poverty relief team headed to the countryside. The 25-year-old cadre of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was sent to Liuquan, a village situated in a large resettled zone […]
Read MoreGlobal Times The US move to eliminate Hong Kong’s special status serves its own strategic goal – to contain China. Yet China is perfectly justified to safeguard its own national security. It won’t flinch if the US continues interfering in China’s domestic affairs and threatening China’s sovereignty and national interests. It is not unanticipated that […]
Read MoreBy Ren Hongbin – China Daily President Xi Jinping is leading China’s fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak. And thanks to the painstaking efforts made by the entire nation, China had managed to largely contain the virus before a new cluster of infections was detected in Beijing on June 11. In this entire process, central […]
Read MoreActor Louis Mahoney, who appeared in films like Cry Freedom and TV shows Fawlty Towers and Doctor Who, has died at the age of 81. Early in his career, Mahoney was one of the first black actors in the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1960s. He also helped found Performers Against Racism in the 1980s […]
Read MoreCarl Reiner, who helped create The Dick Van Dyke Show and acted in films like Ocean’s Eleven, has died aged 98. The prolific writer, comedian, director and actor also directed several films including Steve Martin vehicles The Jerk (1979) and All of Me (1984). He was in 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven and its two sequels as […]
Read MoreBy He Lei – Global Times The Chinese government’s defense budget for 2020 is set at 1.268 trillion yuan ($178.2 billion), up 6.6 percent from last year. The growth is 0.9 percentage points lower than that of last year. China is a socialist country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China and has […]
Read MoreBy Wan Lin – Global Times China’s first offshore wind farm with foreign investment and the country’s farthest and most difficult wind farm was put into use on Wednesday in East China, which a project employee said demonstrates foreign companies’ trust in China’s offshore power market. Seventy-five wind turbines have been connected to the grid, […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese scientists have developed a method to convert light energy and biomass to diesel fuel and hydrogen. The study by scientists of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences provides a way to produce clean energy using solar power or artificial light source and sustainable carbon sources present on […]
Read MoreBy Chen Qingqing and Bai Yunyi – Global Times Hong Kong: A Hong Kong association gathers at Chater Garden, Central Hong Kong, in support of the national security legislation in the city. Dozens of participants marched to the US Consulate General in Hong Kong waving the Five-Starred Red Flag and shouting slogans supporting the legislation […]
Read MoreAs a new exhibition opens in Helsinki, Cath Pound explores our complicated relationship with masterpieces. The reason works of art become iconic are many and varied, from the vagaries of taste to museum acquisition policies and competition between collectors. For centuries, artists were obliged to learn by copying work from an established canon and, although […]
Read MoreIt’s thought that people began cooking as early as a million years agoFrom creating toxic chemicals to an increased risk of lung cancer, the latest evidence suggests that some types of cooking come with health risks. What can be done to avoid them? “The whole reason that we evolved as humans is because we started […]
Read MoreLondon Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate is suing Netflix, among others, over its upcoming film “Enola Holmes” — arguing that the show’s depiction of Sherlock Holmes as kind, caring and respectful of women is a violation of the author’s copyright. The film, based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer and set for release on […]
Read MoreFrom Motown and “The Cosby Show” to hip-hop and “Black Panther,” America has long consumed Black culture — even as our country’s systemic racism sent a very different message but never quite like this.In the weeks since the recent Black Lives Matter protests, Black-themed cultural media have been having a moment. Books, music, movies, TV […]
Read MoreBy Bilal Thaheem Taxila: Taxila Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) built in 1971 and Heavy Foundry & Forge (HFF) in 1977 with the financial and technical assistance of China at Taxila about 30 km north of the capital city is a symbol of ‘Pak-China Friendship’. The HMC once a subsidiary of State Engineering Corporation (SEC) is […]
Read MoreBeijing: China’s shipment of wearable devices shrank in the first quarter of the year, an industry report showed. Makers of wearable devices in the country shipped 17.62 million units in Q1, down 11.3 percent year on year, according to global market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Shipment of basic wearables, which do not support […]
Read MoreBy Raiq Qureshi Islamabad: Pakistan in general and Punjab in particular has a rich history of cultural heritage — the footprints of arts and architectures of Mughals, British and Sikhs are still visible in most parts of the province narrating tales of the bygone days. The walled city of Lahore speaks for almost every era […]
Read MoreIslamabad: The increasing trend of modern tunes is becoming a great threat to folk music with the passage of time. According to musicians, with the rapidly moving world venturing into the vistas of ultramodern civilization, the folk music is dying down as senseless with empty lyrics and music, rather the rock and pop music was […]
Read MoreIslamabad: National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage (Lok Virsa) has planned to initiate a “Cuisine Museum” to introduce famous traditional food of all cities and areas of the country at one place adding a new attraction for food lovers of federal capitals and foreign guest to satisfy their taste buds with traditional appetite. Executive […]
Read MoreIslamabad: ”ArtAid” will put art works for online auction both for funds as well as barter for supplies to provide much needed assistance for the affected low income families in the testing time. Renowned artist Jamal Shah said “ArtAid” was launched in 2005 as a platform to support the earthquake affected people and held the […]
Read MoreBy Mehwish Azam Islamabad: Amid all the disarray caused by novel coronavirus (Covid-19), capital hiking trails of Margala Hills National Park are providing a therapeutic activity to the residents of Islamabad who have been confined to their homes for several weeks due to lockdown. Soon after the Islamabad administration decided to reopen hiking trails with […]
Read MoreBy Raiq Qureshi Islamabad: Golra Sharif Railway Museum, also known as Pakistan Railways Heritage Museum, located near Sector E-11 of the federal capital of Islamabad, is the site of a venerated railway museum housing relics and memorabilia associated with railways dating back to the days of British Raj. The railways station with its museum is […]
Read MoreBy Naveel Ahmed Islamabad: As a part of its plans to promote religious tourism in Pakistan, the government of province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has set up a Buddhist trail to attract the followers of Buddhism and monks from across the world. “A Buddhist trail has been developed in the province to facilitate the monks and […]
Read MoreBy Erfan Khan Islamabad: The Monsoon waves have started penetrating into the country’s horizons in the month of July and soon the moisture laden air will grip most of the country including the twin cities, thus creating an ideal atmosphere for seasonal plantation. Myriad varieties of fruits and vegetables can be sown during the season, […]
Read MoreBy Gary Hixjun The remote work challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the aging and insufficient infrastructure that has long powered much of the federal government. Aside from the widely discussed latency and security issues the current situation has presented, running on dated systems also requires more administration and maintenance, increasing the burden on […]
Read MoreBeijing: Chinese authorities have decided to further beef up intellectual property rights (IPR) assistance, with focuses on the assistance to small firms and companies in exhibition and e-commerce sectors. More will be done to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to safeguard their legal rights, and IPR assistance will also go to exhibition, e-commerce and […]
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