During Shanghai’s first golden age in the late 19th and early 20th Century, the city thrummed with life, from the busy riverside wharves and docks to the dancehalls and theatres in the city’s centre. Until the 1949 Communist Revolution, the city’s famous Bund waterfront was known as the Wall Street of Asia and housed the [...]
TOKYO – Never mind natural resources or national pride.
China’s rapid military modernization and aggressive territorial claims are rooted in the calculus of nuclear deterrence, according to defense analysts in Japan.
China has claimed virtually all of the South China Sea and is developing aircraft carriers and stealth fighter planes largely to secure a haven for ballistic [...]
Singapore rebuked its national water polo team for wearing swim trunks that feature an “inappropriate” likeness of the city-state’s flag.
The trunks, which were designed by members of the men’s team currently competing in the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, show the flag’s white crescent moon jutting up from the groin area with five stars to [...]
England’s Lee Westwood showed no signs of buckling under the pressure of his new status as golf’s world number one, hitting a round of 70 to sit one shot behind leader Francesco Molinari after day two of the HSBC Champions challenge in Shanghai, China.
The Italian led the field on Friday, after a two-round score of [...]
The Dino experience is not too much for tourists but for locals, so if you want to enjoy it properly, you need to embrace or just imagine that you are really in China. The place might be crowded and your personal space might be reduced to mere centimeters, but if you can get over these [...]
Last Thursday, the company said that Google users in China were temporarily blocked from accessing the search engine, but it was once again working a few hours later.
There was a notice posted on Google’s site and it said that all services other than Gmail were partially or fully blocked in mainland China and No further [...]
