Posting Nude Photographs to Protest in China

Nude photographs posted in riposte to Chinese police interrogation of videographer for picture of Ai and women naked When artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And now that he faces an investigation for spreading pornography – [...]

The Elderly of China and India

“China and India clearly will be the countries with the largest population of older adults in absolute terms. However, Chinais ageing more rapidly than India because of its one child policy,” Chatterji added. The over-60 population will rise from 165 million to 439 million in China and from 93 million to 323 million in India [...]

Rail Line to Connect Gilgit with Xinjiang

Pakistan and China have started discussion on building a cross-border railway linking northern areas of Gilgit with Kashgar, an old Chinese Silkroad townin the restive northwestern Xinjiang province. A feasibility study of the railway had been conducted but there was still no time-table for starting the construction. By using this option, you can shorten China’s [...]

No Girls Available in China to Marry

Duan Biansheng, one of many unmarried men in the ‘bachelor village’ of Banzhushan inHunanprovince wants a wife, of course. But ask what kind of woman he seeks and Duan looks perplexed. “I don’t have any requirements at all,” said the 35-year-old farmer. “I would be satisfied with just a wife.” His prospects of finding one, [...]

Could Pakistan Dump The U.S. For ‘All-Weather Friend’ China?

Though Islamabad likes to play that card, analysts say,Beijingcould never replace the billions in aid thatWashingtonprovides. Nor is China likely to risk its own bid to become an economic superpower. With every new trough in U.S.-Pakistan relations, talk among Pakistanis of paring down their dependence on Washington and throwing in with China grows louder. Just days after [...]

Chinese Executing a Pak Businessman on Sept 21

Mr. Zahid Hussain Shah, (passport number CQ 5149432), confined at I.T (identity) 1760, Hunan Road detention cell, Shanghai, China, was taken into custody from a hotel on September 4, 2008 on charges of smuggling drugs into China. He was formally arrested on these the charges on October 10, 2008 along with seven other persons including, [...]

India Will Be the Most Populous Nation, Surpassing China Sometime Around 2025

Here is the world in 2050, as imagined by the U.S. Census Bureau: India will be the most populous nation, surpassing China sometime around 2025. TheU.S.will remain exactly where it is now: in third place, with a population of 423 million (up from 308 million in 2010). And declining birth rates in two of the [...]

Burmese Girls Forced to Marry Chinese Men

Most cross-border human trafficking in Burma involves women tricked into travelling to China to get work, only to find a groom waiting for them on the other side. Thazin* was trafficked to China from Yangon and forced into marriage in 2008. Now 29 and back in Yangon, she said that one day she drank a [...]

Pak China Railway Track to Cost $30 Million Per Kilometer

Pakistani President Zardari and Chinese President Hu Jintao in their July 7, 2010 meeting during an official visit of the Pakistani leader to China discussed plans to build a railway line from Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang province to the Pakistani port of Gwadar. This could give China direct access to the Persian Gulf and make [...]

58 Countries Retained the Death Penalty in 2009

Death Sentences and Executions in 2009 Amnesty International published its world overview of the death penalty for 2009 on March 30, 2010. The report, Death Sentences and Executions in 2009, reveals that fewer countries than ever before are carrying out executions.  While 58 countries retained the death penalty in 2009, only 18 actually used it. [...]