There were very few persons who knew Sathya Sai Baba since he began his so-called 'mission' to save humanity who dared so much as to question anything he said. One of those was V. Ka narasimhan, the once world faoums

Professor L.M. Patnaik today took over as the Vice Chancellor of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune. Sixty-one year old Prof. Patnaik served as a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the prestigious Indian Institute

With appetite growing on the Chinese Internet for more information about the history of China's dealings with Tibet, one elderly blogger has stepped up to feed it. The blogger, 72-year-old Jiang Dasan ( ), is a retired pilot who was

Update 2 (March 30, 11:52pm, Pacific Time): After arriving encased in glass at the Beijing airport (see below), the Olympic flame was transported to Tian'anmen Square for an official torch lighting ceremony, attended by a conspicuously modest crowd of hand-picked

In a myth-busting opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle, University of Southern California international relations scholar Geoffrey Garrett slams Hilary Clinton's recent echoing of middle-American protectionist sentiment towards China and offers three "trade secrets" as the basis for a

Planning to write his next column on China and the Tibet protests, New York Times pundit Nicholas Kristof has issued an open call for commentary on his blog. The invitation is as follows: In any case, my sense is that

From Reuters:The yuan dipped against the dollar on Monday, guided by the Chinese central bank ahead of a visit to China by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, but its appreciation in the first quarter is set to be the biggest

A quick but compelling look inside China's nascent green building movement, from Caijing's English edition: This past winter was particularly cozy for residents at No. 12 West Huixin Street in Beijing. "In the past, it was so cold in winter

From the front lines of the product safety wars, bad news for the growing coterie of Chinese pizza fans. From AFP: China has banned the imports of Italian mozzarella cheese, the nation's product quality watchdog said, after traces of the

Japanese efforts to remove chemical weapons left behind in China after World War II, required under international treaty, are now on hold after the company responsible for the removal was closed due to a corruption scandal. As TIME reports, the

On March 30, the comprehensive first-stage U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement signed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters, and their European Union counterparts on April 30, 2007, becomes effective. The Agreement establishes Open Skies between the

NHIndustries announced the delivery of the first NH90 TTT (Tactical Troop Transport) helicopter to the Finnish Army Aviation. The delivery took place at Eurocopter in Marignane (France) where the helicopter was assembled. Finland is replacing its ageing fleet of MI-8

located in west Beijing Municipality (not the city proper), is one of a short list of active Buddhist temples in Beijing. The temple is smallish in comparison with some of the huge old temple complexes that dot the city -

perhaps blushing at the contact, is the very image of young love, still shy and innocent. We in the West look at this gesture of affection as romantic in nature, something people do in the glow of a new relationship.

ancient Buddhist temples located near the city of Datong in the Shanxi province of China, are excellent examples of rock-cut architecture. They are also one of the three most famous cave clusters or ancient scriptural sites of China, the other

The 500,000 Dongxiang live mostly in Gansu province; the rest live in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang. The Dongxiang are closely related to the Mongolian and Semu peoples. It's thought that their identity as separate from these groups

s - crisp wafers folded around a bit of paper with some Chinglish wisdom or a vague fortune printed on one side and lottery numbers on the other - are a ubiquitous feature in Chinese restaurants in America or Europe,

lies about 450 kilometers north of Chengdu. The valley takes its name from the nine Tibetan villages there. The valley is 50 kilometers long and has 108 lakes, each one unique, as well as a number of waterfalls and streams.