Panda Leaves Washington For China
One of Washington's most popular residents left town on Tuesday: Bao Bao, the National Zoo's uber-popular young female panda, headed to her new home in China. Bao Bao left Dulles International...
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China Football League Like ‘lightning In A Bottle’
China's astonishing spending spree on foreign players could all end in tears like the United States' first foray into building a football league in the 1970's, according to Brighton chief executive...
First Female Coach Chan To Handle Men’s Team For 2017 AFC Champions League
Wednesday 22 February 2017 will be a special day for the Asian Football Confederation (the organisers of the AFC Champions League), reigning Hong Kong champions Eastern Long Lions and their coach...
China Delays Nuclear Reactor Start Again
Two nuclear reactors being built in the southern Chinese city of Taishan will come onstream months later than planned, said China General Nuclear Power (CGN), which runs the project together with...
Kalybos Releases New Car For 2017
Comic actor Kalybos has had a good career after he came into the limelight. He’s had a scandal-free career after he became a household name. After featuring in two movies, Kalybos in China and...
North Korea Downplays Impact of China Coal Ban
A North Korean state economic official sought Tuesday to play down the impact of China's shock announcement that it was suspending coal imports from the country for the rest of the year. The move,...
Chinese Police In Restive Xinjiang To Track Cars By GPS
A prefecture in China's restive Xinjiang region has ordered all vehicles to be equipped with GPS-like tracking software, police and media reports said Tuesday, as authorities step up an...
Years of Failed Efforts To End Syrian Conflict
Since the start of Syria's war in 2011, several diplomatic initiatives have stumbled over the future of President Bashar al-Assad. Here is a recap: In January 2012, two months after an initial bid to...
Japan Zoo Culls 57 Monkeys Carrying ‘invasive’ Genes
A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien species", officials said Tuesday. The Takagoyama Nature Zoo in the...
Parliament Distorts Opposition To Plant Breeders’ Bill!
Latest: “Food Sovereignty appeared before our committee and we gave them the opportunity to prove that the bill is about GMO. They couldn’t. They actually apologized and withdrew. And yet the day...
Wanda’s Bid For US TV Producer In Trouble
A $1 billion bid for US television rights holder Dick Clark Productions by Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group is in trouble, reports said, tripped up by restrictions Beijing imposed to slow a torrent...
Kim Killing One Week On
A week since news broke that the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had been assassinated, a clearer picture is emerging of the Cold War-style killing in Kuala Lumpur's international...
Taiwan ‘White Terror’ Brought Back To Life For Gamers
As the 70th anniversary of a bloody political purge in Taiwan looms, a new horror video game set during the island's "White Terror" is winning rave reviews. "Detention" was created by Taiwanese...
China Move Puts Onus On US In N. Korea Impasse
China´s snap decision to halt North Korean coal imports -- a key economic lifeline for Pyongyang -- has a broader motive aimed at shaping Donald Trump's as yet undefined policy towards the North's...
Gene Editing Mulled For Improving Livestock
Gene editing, which has raised ethical concerns due to its capacity to alter human DNA, is being considered in the United States as a tool for improving livestock, experts say. The technique is...
Five Things To Know
South Sudan, where the government on Monday declared famine in some parts of the country, is mired in an economic crisis due to a devastating civil war. Independent since 2011, the world's newest...
Gabon’s Forest Elephants Slain For Ivory At Alarming Rate
Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in the last decade. Some 25,000 elephants...
AFCON Best Player Christian Bassogog Joins Chinese Side Henan Jianye
Bassogog has moved to China after two years stint in Europe Christian Bassogog, best player at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, has moved to Chinese Super League (CSL) side Henan Jianye for what his...
Gov’t Explains Delays In Stipends To Scholarship Students In China
The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has insisted that it has paid over $78,000 to clear outstanding allowances owed Ghanaian students on government scholarships in China. This is despite Ghanaian...
Gov’t Explains Non-Payment of Stipends To Scholarship Students In China
The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has insisted that it has paid over $78,000 to clear outstanding allowances owed Ghanaian students on government scholarships in China. This is despite Ghanaian...