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2 Chinese workers killed in Karachi blast, Beijing 'shocked'

Two Chinese nationals were killed and 17 people injured in a suicide attack by a Baloch insurgent group that targeted a convoy of Chinese workers near Pakistan's busiest airport in Karachi late at......

Convoy carrying 23 Chinese engineers attacked in Pak's Balochistan

A convoy of Chinese engineers was attacked in Gwadar in Pakistan's Balochistan on Sunday, the Global Times has learned. IMAGE: A police officer stands guard near a passenger van, cordoned after a......

Gandhiji Visits Beijing. Does Xi Know?

'Mahatma Gandhi's principle of non-violence was all-encompassing -- human against human, human against animal and more importantly human against nature.' IMAGE: Members of the Indian embassy and......

Can Rishi Beat Race To Become PM?

Will Empire strike back to prevent a game changing election result, asks T P Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Conservative party leadership finalists Rishi Sunak, right, and Liz Truss before taking part in the......

China is Britain's largest threat, has targeted India: Rishi Sunak

China represents the "largest threat" to Britain and the world's security and prosperity this century and there is evidence to suggest it has targeted countries from the US to India, UK prime......

China - Prospects and paradoxes

No country has achieved a faster, deeper modern transformation than China, says former ambassador Kishan S Rana. That China is in the news is not novel. What is new is that rosy narratives of its......

Why Indians are learning Chinese

There was a time when students keen to pick up at least one foreign language headed to either Alliance Francaise to learn French or the Max Mueller Bhavan for German. Today, students and......

Machiavelli & the art of management

It's easy to dismiss the Machiavellian approach to running organisations in today's kinder, gentler world of new age, team-based management. But some management experts like James O' Toole, Senior......

Teach Mandarin and get rich

The world's attention has been riveted by the urgency with which the Chinese are learning English. Stories abound of how, in response to the Party diktat to learn English before the 2008 Olympics,......

The Wonderful Films of Basu Chatterjee

'Basuda welcomed viewers into a world that was instantly familiar and comfortable,' observes Sukanya Verma. Basu Chatterjee didn't just make movies for us. He made movies about us. I saw life in......

It's Not That Simple: Foul-mouthed Soap Opera

What holds It's Not That Simple together is the cast; performers who frequently rise above their stodgy lines to bring something personal to the table, notes Sreehari Nair. In Voot's new show......

China leaps on world stage in style

Opening ceremony images Resurgent China opened the Olympics on Friday with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to draw......

Beckham turns into Oriental mystic

In the movie 'Shaolin Soccer' a bunch of down-at-heel Hong Kong footballers call on the spirit of Oriental mysticism, and a little bit of kung-fu, to overcome their arch-rivals.Perhaps it was only......

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