Chinese Site Lists Missing Children, Cracking Down on Abductions

Chinese authorities are using a Net site to try to re-unite families with their missing children.   The trafficking of children and women in the PRC is a widespread practise due to old cultural mores. " The Babies Looking for Home website is part of a nationwide...

China Marks 60th Anniversary of Modern Republic

October First will mark the 60th anniversary of the modern People's Republic of China(PRC).  The preparations for celebrating the achievement of 60 years of Communist rule in China are elaborate. Premier Wen...

China Warns Taiwan Over Uighur Film

Taiwan has managed to tweak China's symbolic nose over the screening of an Uyghur film and has received a warning that it might stir up trouble for relations between the two countries.  While most of the world...

China Investigates Kang Rixin, Nuclear Power Chief

China is investigating Kang Rixin, president and party secretary of the China National Nuclear Corporation(CNNC) for "grave violations of discipline".China is spending the equivalent of billions of dollars to...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Tiananmen Pro-Democratic Movement

This year in commemorating 20th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Students' Democracy Movement, Tibetans in many part of the world joined to show their solidarity with the Chinese people who are seeking justice and freedom. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and...

We are with you, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar for the last couple of decades was blended with trauma under the bloody realm of Military Juntas which makes headline every other day. Rangoon, despite being a member of United Nations plainly nullifies  the international principles on human rights and carries out...

Freedom House Condemns Pakistan, China for Uighur Extraditions

The ethnically distinct Uighurs of China face an uncertain future.  Recently Pakistan extradited Uighur exiles to China in violation of international agreements.  "China increased its repression of...

Project Runway Canada Season 2 Episode 4 (SO2EO4) Review

Episode 4 of Project Runway Canada, "Re-Fashioning the Houses," aired last night and brought the second group challenge, as designers had to group in threes and design three couture outfits based on an iconic...

Danio Frangella of Project Runway Canada Dies of Cancer at 34

Project Runway Canada contender Danio Frangella passed away on February 10, 2009.  Danio had had a long battle with Leukemia and made the decision to bow out of the competition on the first episode of season 2...

Project Runway Canada Season 2 Episode 3 (S02E03) Review

Episode 3 of Project Runway Canada, "Colour me Right," aired last night and brought the first group challenge, as designers had to pair up and design two outfits inspired by the L'Oreal Spring 2009 makeup line....

Project Runway Canada Season 2 Episode 2 (S02E02) Review

Episode 2 of Project Runway Canada, "Claim to Fame," welcomed Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert as a celebrity muse for the designers.  Season 2 has introduced Canada to 14 new faces, some of which we will...

Project Runway Canada: Interview with Christie Clayton

The second season of Project Runway Canada, the successful spin-off of the popular US reality TV show Project Runway, premieres tonight on Global TV.  Fourteen fashion designers will compete for a top prize...

Project Runway Canada Premiere and Interview with Kim Cathers

The second season of Project Runway Canada, the successful spin-off of the popular US reality TV show Project Runway, premieres tonight on Global TV.  Fourteen fashion designers will compete for a top prize of...

Steven Pinker: It's hard to see how China will ever compete with the West

In the latest issue of Edge the well-known Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questions the popular assertion that "China will be the next scientific and economic power." What prompted Pinker to question that...

Mugabe: China's Military Is A Welcome Ally On The Streets Of Zimbabwe

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Members of the UN Security Council meeting in the United States may raise concerns about the Mugabe regime calling in Chinese military aid to help suppress the will of people in Zimbabwe....

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