Decades ago the Chinese New Year holiday, also known as Spring Festival, had little impact outside of China. But as the country gained outsized economic influence, the holiday, which has enormous
During China’s boom years, Shanxi province was an economic backwater notorious for coal mine accidents and air pollution. According to a 2013 study by researchers at Princeton University, the University
Setting off fireworks to celebrate Chinese New Year may be a centuries-old tradition, but the country’s authorities are urging people to light fewer of them this week as cities fight
Muslim guerrillas returned to the Philippine government yesterday at least 16 assault firearms of police anti-terror commandos who were killed in what the insurgents say was a “misencounter” that has
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dark suit with its unique monogram pinstripes went up for auction yesterday in his home state of Gujarat, officials said. The money raised in the three-day
A special tribunal dealing with war crimes involving Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war convicted and sentenced a leading collaborator to death yesterday for crimes including mass killing, arson and looting. The head judge of
Myanmar granted its military unprecedented powers to deal with fighting between ethnic minority rebels and government troops in the Kokang region, after week-long clashes left dozens of soldiers dead and
The number of civilians killed or wounded in fighting in Afghanistan climbed by 22 percent in 2014 to reach the highest level in five years as foreign troops concluded their combat mission,
Ukraine has pulled most of its troops out of Debaltseve, the epicenter of recent fighting in war-torn eastern Ukraine, the president confirmed yesterday. The Russia-backed separatists reported taking hundreds of
Italy pressed for swifter action yesterday by the United Nations to find a political solution to Libya’s rapidly deteriorating security situation. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, speaking in Parliament, urged the world
Marius Stribulea, lawyer to Elena Udrea, said his client, one of the most influential Romanian politicians in the past decade, wanted to renovate her current accommodation. "As you know the conditions
He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen in public three years ago. The country’s official news agency said his death was the result of
With a racist song ringing in his ears, a black man trying to board a subway train in Paris stands back after twice being pushed away by a group of
According to the traditional Chinese calendar, 2015 is the year of the goat, one of 12 animals of the Eastern zodiac. The last year of the Goat was 2003, and
Striker Edinson Cavani gave Paris Saint-Germain a Champions League lifeline on Tuesday with a second-half equalizer as his team battled to a 1-1 draw with Chelsea in the last 16. After
It will be the second New Moon after the Winter solstice (which takes place on December 22, 2014). This New Moon signals the first day of the first lunar month
While much of Hong Kong’s freedom is being chipped away at, it’s heartening to see the stout application of the rule of law in several high-profile cases in the past
Apart from this, the year of the Goat promises to be more peaceful, with a turn toward progress. Personality clashes and misunderstandings in
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