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Loosening Beijing embrace, Sri Lanka reviews China projects

Colombo, Jan. 27 (NsNewsWire) — Sri Lanka’s new government will review Chinese infrastructure projects awarded under the previous administration, a junior minister said, a move bound to please Indian and Western powers concerned about Beijing’s access in the island state. On Friday, the government said it would review a $1.5 billion port deal with China […]

Thousands rally in Pakistan’s Karachi against French magazine caricatures

ISLAMABAD, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had published controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammad after members of […]

Smoked fish, dried herbs, vegetables: Kashmir’s winter delicacies

New Delhi, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — For centuries, locals in the landlocked Kashmir Valley have relished dried vegetables, smoked fish and wild herbs to survive during the extreme winter. The tradition lives on even today. As land links with the outside world would get snapped because of heavy snowfall on the mountain passes leading out […]

China Focus: Nutrition for poor children high on agenda

BEIJING, Jan. 26 (NsNewsWire) — While urban parents worry that their children are obese, kids in the country’s underdeveloped rural regions are often malnourished. HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Malnutrition threatens to hold back a generation of rural Chinese, reports Xinhua. Pickles and cold steamed buns are what five-year-old Mai Xiaoying takes to school for lunch. “I […]

Xi stresses adherence to dialectical materialism

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed dialectical materialism as a way to deepen reform. Xi, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks while presiding over a meeting attended by members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday, reports Xinhua. […]

News Analysis: How Europe to turn resolve into action on anti-terrorist strike

BRUSSELS, Jan. 25 (NsNewsWire) — The bloody terrorist attacks in Paris last week marked a watershed moment, triggering political leaders to take to the street to express their resolve in fighting terrorism. Some experts’ perspectives are that the European reaction in the next stage will definitely not be as simple as the word “fight,” as […]

ISIS threatens to kill 2 Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays $200 million

Japan, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Two Japanese hostages, one demand from ISIS: Hand over $200 million, or else. The else being that the pair will meet the same gruesome fate as other captives held by the terrorist group, others who were shown in ISIS videos kneeling in orange jumpsuits in front of masked, black-clad men — […]

China denies being world’s No.1 economy

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (NsNewsWire) — Claims that China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy were denied by the head of China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. “The NBS does not countenance these claims by some scholars and media organizations,” said bureau head Ma Jiantang at a press conference in […]

Three rescued, 22 missing after boat sinks in China’s Yangtze River

NANJING, Jan. 17 (NsNewsWire) — Rescuers have saved three people after a tug boat sank on the Yangtze River in east China’s Jiangsu Province on Thursday, said local rescue headquarters. Twenty-five people aboard the boat fell into the water, including eight foreigners — four Singaporeans, an Indonesian, a Malaysian, an Indian and a Japanese national […]