Three feet high, with blue and yellow flashing antennae and a head shaped like a stylish toaster, A Tie is among the first of an army of “intelligent nursing robots” that will be deployed across China to ease pressure on its heavily-burdened elderly care system. But at a care homeContinue Reading
Washington: China’s “utterly disgraceful” human rights record is not just bad, it’s getting worse every year, a new Congressional report has warned. “The Chinese government’s human rights record is utterly disgraceful, continuing a downward trend over the past three years,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chair of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive CommitteeContinue Reading
The world’s largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China’s rising ambitions in space and its pursuit of international scientific prestige. Beijing has poured billions into such ambitious scientific projects as well as its military-backed space program,Continue Reading
Hu Shigen, a leader of an underground church movement, was found guilty of subversionContinue Reading
The change, announced in October by the ruling Communist Party, took effect from January 1, 2016Continue Reading
Beijing: China has officially junked its controversial one child policy, allowing couples to have a second child amid deepening demographic crisis of shrinking workforce and ageing population in the world’s second largest economy. Chinese lawmakers passed a historic decision allowing all couples to have two children from January 1, ending itsContinue Reading
Roman Catholics are rapidly increasing in larger cities across China, but efforts to train more priests have been held back by the lack of applicants for seminaries, according to the Shanghai-based China Daily newspaper. Zou Yunlong, a 32-year-old student at the National Seminary of the Catholic Church in Beijing, toldContinue Reading
Beijing: China has renovated the historic Dungkar Monastery in Tibet, close to Nathu La border in Sikkim where the Dalai Lama first fled in 1951 when the Chinese troops entered Tibet. Built in the 16th century, the monastery was damaged in a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake in 2011, destroying its mainContinue Reading
They have planted 12,000 trees in 13 yearsContinue Reading
Italians in the Roman Curia don’t know the Chinese dictatorship because they have never experienced a Communist regimeContinue Reading