When they founded Bokja Designs in 2000, Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hibri aspired to combine the age-old artisan traditions of the East with contemporary furniture designs against the background of Lebanon's rich cultural and historical heritage, as Bokja's homepage explains.
The Lebanese village of Tanoura in the Bekaa Valley shares a common concern with the Jordanian town of Irbil: a lack of reliable water supply. In Tanoura, just one well provides the entire village with water, and people are forced
Music resonates down the rundown streets of Beddawi, an overpopulated suburb of Tripoli. People have moved into garages and covered the entrance with bed sheets in a feeble attempt at privacy. Children play on the sidewalks. Their parents sit around
The UN Development Program (UNDP) is about to flood Lebanon's media with tales of ordinary citizens who took the initiative to make positive changes in their surroundings here, in a campaign to shatter the negative tone permeating the country's public
China's currency, the yuan, was set to trade at 6.9920 yuan against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, breaching the 7-yuan mark for the first time since the government unpegged it from the dollar in 2005. Following an overnight fall of
A company in East China will today begin the country's first voluntary toy recall. About 18,000 plastic toys made by Huanxi Toy Co Ltd, based in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, between June 20 of last year and March 1, contain small
The mainland stock market took a dive yesterday after a four-day run-up, as jittery investors hurried to take profits ahead of the further tightening of government monetary policy to combat inflation.The benchmark Shanghai Composite Ind ...
The stock market boom not long ago not only provided a steady source of funds for thousands of domestic enterprises, but was also a fountain of hope for many aspiring entrepreneurs. Take Qian Yafeng for instance. The 26-year-old NQA Certifi
Among the documents at the Archives of the Nationalities Cultural Palace in Beijing are some that hint that a feudal-serfdom institution existed in Tibet before the democratic reform in 1959, which was more brutal than the system of medieva ...
How western journalists cover the Tibet riots is a textbook example of biased journalism. Nothing innovative here. Just old tricks recycled.Life expectancy of Tibetan was 35.5 years in 1959 vs. 67 years in 2005.And the infant mortality ...
The government of China's Tibet Autonomous Region has paid out 3 million yuan in compensation to the families of 15 people killed in the riots that erupted on March 14. The government had promised to provide 200,000 yuan in compensa
Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping has urged local officials to adhere to clean governance and to exercise their power in accordance with the law. Xi made the remarks during an inspection tour in China's northwest Ningxia Hui Autonom ...
The door to consultation with the Dalai Lama is open even after a series of secessionist activities home and abroad, a senior official said yesterday."The Dalai Lama is destroying the base for dialogue with the central government by sti ...
Since the Lhasa riots broke out on March 14, Chinese netizens have been publishing articles and sending bulletins strongly condemning the terrorist activities incited by the Dalai clique and its associate, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC); ...
The tenth Beijing International Auto Show will open on April 20 in the new hall of the Beijing International Exhibition Center. Until now, more than 2,100 manufacturers from 18 countries and regions have participated, including the United S ...
Mario Vazquez Rana, Chairman of the International Olympic Association, said in Beijing on the 9th that 205 countries and regions will participate in the Beijing Olympic Games. This means that the most countries and regions will be participa ...
The Ministry of Land and Resources Wednesday ordered its provincial offices to prepare for possible natural disasters triggered by extreme weather conditions. Over the past two days, several southern and eastern provinces have been ...
According to the China Science and Technology Museum, the museum's new hall, now under construction in the National Olympic Park, will partially open to the public during the Olympic Games with a thematic exhibition of "Creations and Invent ...
Peter Batchelor, Minister for Energy and Resources in Victoria's Parliament, said on Wednesday that there is great potential for China and Australia to cooperate in clean energy technology. He made this statement in an interview with Xi ...
