China's money changes the landscape in Australia
GUNNEDAH, Australia (AP) — Tony Clift's family has plowed the rich black soil of Australia's Liverpool Plains for six generations. The thought of selling never crossed his mind — until a Chinese...
View ArticleNKorea may see few buyers despite rocket success - Wire Business News - The...
SEOUL, South Korea -- By successfully firing a rocket that put a satellite in space, North Korea let the far-flung buyers of its missiles know that it is still open for business. But Pyongyang will...
View Article>NKorea may see few buyers despite rocket success
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — By successfully firing a rocket that put a satellite in space, North Korea let the far-flung buyers of its missiles know that it is still open for business. But Pyongyang...
View ArticleNKorea may see few buyers despite rocket success
SEOUL, South Korea -- By successfully firing a rocket that put a satellite in space, North Korea let the far-flung buyers of its missiles know that it is still open for business. But Pyongyang will...
View ArticleBilateral distrust between U.S., China at an all-time high
SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — A real life game of chess is being played out in the Pacific between China, the United States and its allies. China is dramatically modernizing its military, especially its...
View ArticleA Traveler In The Foreign Service: I Was Once An 'Illegal Immigrant' In...
After three months of arduous solo travel along the Silk Road, I was ready to cross my final frontier. I'd been forced to deviate from my plan to travel overland from Cairo to Shanghai, and was on a...
View ArticleChinese authorities are cracking down harder than ever in Tibet
The ongoing wave of shocking self-immolations in Tibet has lead the Chinese authorities to crack down harder than ever on dissent in the region. Today, Dec. 17, 2012, Phayul.com has reported, Chinese...
View ArticleChina Detains 93 for Professing Doomsday
BEIJING, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 93 people were detained in China for spreading doomsday rumors, the official news agency Xinhua said on Monday. On Saturday four Chinese doom-mongers,...
View ArticleDalai Lama's old tricks fool young victims
With quite a few teenage Tibetans reportedly sacrificing themselves for the Dalai Lama, the monk should step forward to stop copycat self-immolations and show that he deserves the title of "Tibet's...
View ArticleDalai Lama speaks on the source of happiness
At a time when sadness often pervades the hearts and minds of Buddhists due to the ongoing tensions in Tibet, the Dalai Lama has given a talk on the source of happiness. Phayul.com has reported on...
View ArticlePLA did not spare even Lord Buddha in 1962, is India ready for a trial ...
Tweet Somewhere on the Eastern Frontier, Dec.16 (ANI): Tserteng Gompa located in Lumpo village at 10,000 feet above sea level very close to Sino-India border is more than 700-years-old. The 15-feet...
View ArticleAP IMPACT: China surpasses US as top global trader
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shin Cheol-soo no longer sees his future in the United States. The South Korean businessman supplied components to American automakers for a decade. But this year, he...
View ArticleChina appoints new top official for export powerhouse Guangdong
BEIJING (Reuters) - China announced on Tuesday the appointment of rising star Hu Chunhua as Communist Party boss for the southern export powerhouse of Guangdong, the country's richest and most liberal...
View ArticleNew route picked for planned Montana coal railroad
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Owners of a railroad that would open Montana's coal fields to increased mining offered a new route for the disputed line on Monday, which backers said would be shorter and affect...
View ArticleTibetan - Thai Buddhist Dialogue - Second Day (The Office of His Holiness...
(Source: The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama) December 17th 2012 New Delhi, India, 16 December 2012 - The large audience of Thai monks and lay-people, who filled the hall, were waiting eagerly...
View ArticleMaking tracks to Africa's ore
ASK an iron ore miner what he thinks of West Africa in 2012 and the answer will likely be "boom time". Mining companies and investors, including some heavyweight industrial combines in China, are...
View ArticleChina to scrap 40 percent export duty on metallurgical coke
SHANGHAI - China will scrap an export duty of 40% on metallurgical coke, a steelmaking raw material, from next year, an official with the Ministry of Finance said, in a move that could boost Chinese...
View ArticleTwo Karmapas at Bodh Gaya baffle visitors
GAYA: The presence of both Ogyen Trinley Dorje and Trinley Thaye Dorje, the claimants to the position of the 17th Karmapa at Bodh Gaya at the same time baffles visitors to the place even as the two...
View ArticleBeef 'O' Brady's to open a restaurant in Mongolia
Susan ThurstonTampa Bay Times In Print: Monday, December 17, 2012 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Story Tools Print this story Purchase reprints Contact the editor Email Newsletters TAMPA — When investors...
View ArticleChina doesn't respect diplomacy
Regarding the Dec. 11 editorial "Hawkish approach won't help": It is beyond my ability to imagine how diplomacy can deter China from expanding its empire. Since 1949 the Chinese (under Mao Zedong as...
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