Regional, "an interdisciplinary design and research network," commissioned self-portraits from the artists at the famous painting reproduction village Dafen, outside Shenzhen:Dafen is a village surrounded by the thriving metropolis of Shenzhen, and the origin of most of the world's reproduction
A few hours after a message appeared on an Internet forum alleging relief tents destined for earthquake victims had been embezzled, millions of Internet users in China got outraged and prompted officials to investigate the scandal. A netizen who named
Beijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser has been writing the "Tibet Update" series on her Middleway blog, hosted outside of China. About 3 am Beijing time on May 27, 2008, her blog was hacked by a group calling themselves "Chinese Hongke Alliance."(A
From The Wall Street Journal:... China's new generation of metropolitan newspapers, current affairs magazines and Internet media have all reported on the quake with an intensity and professionalism that has not been possible in the past, when stories were banned
The Cute Kid started a photo contest, their 2008 Cute Kid Contest offers monthly winners cash and great prizes, and automatic entry into the "2008 CuteKid of the Year" Contest.1. How to join the contest?Three simple steps to join the
Beirut - The March 14 th ruling majority alliance met today at and decided to nominate Lebanon's current acting Prime minister as the prime minister of the future government of national unity
Beirut - MP Antoine Zahra a member of the Lebanese Forces party which in turn is a key member of the March 14 majority alliance blasted yesterdasy's speech of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah .
Beirut - The Future Movement (al Mustaqbal) parliamentary bloc on Tuesday Mourned the victims of the "Hezbollah aggression" and assigned to its leader MP Saad Hariri the role of consultations with March 14 allies in order to nominate a candidate
ArmInfo. For a couple of days, the media spotlight was on Davit Zakaryan, a Cincinnati man who wound up spending the better part of a week in a southeastern Iowa jail, Chicago tribune reports. That was last Fourth of July,
ArmInfo. Russian Vneshtorgbank (VTB) will provide the metallurgical company Armenian Copper Programme (ACP) with a loan worth $249,5 mln for development of the Teghut copper- molybdenum deposit in the north of Armenia. President, Chairman of VTB Board Andrey Kostin and
ArmInfo. "New Times" oppositional party leader Aram Karapetyan is still in "Erebuni" Medical Center where he undertakes intensive treatment. As "NT" party told ArmInfo today, it is yet difficult to say how long the treatment will last, however, Aram Karapetyan
ArmInfo. Earthquake of magnitude 5 happened today in the territory of Iran at 10:18 AM by Yerevan time at 19 km to the South-east of Zanjan town. The earthquake shock in the epicenter was of force 6-7on the Richter scale,
A Lebanese-born man who has been imprisoned in Israel for six years for collaborating with Lebanon's Hizbullah will be released on Sunday, his family said. Nessim Nisr, who held Israeli citizenship at the time of his arrest in 2002, was
Security forces arrested Tuesday a female prisoner who escaped the Baabda prison last week. Press reports said a police patrol re-arrested Rouwaida Hasan al-Sayyed as she stood outside the Sayyed building in the Beirut southern suburb of Chiyah. Five female
A US millionaire testifying in a corruption probe that could force Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert out of office said on Tuesday he gave the premier large sums of cash to fund his political ambitions and perhaps his taste for
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday urged Iran's new Parliament to show unity with his government, amid expectations the chamber could be critical of his increasingly controversial economic policies. "The government and Parliament should become an example of unity and harmony
The UAE slammed Iran on Tuesday for terming as a "misunderstanding" their row over three Gulf islands, saying the islands were under Iranian occupation and were no less precious than Arab lands occupied by Israel. "It seems the Iranian side
Iranian soldiers killed nine drug traffickers in the southern province of Kerman in a shoot-out, the Fars news agency reported on Tuesday. The military attacked "a convoy of bandits [traffickers] moving through the desert in Kerman province, killing nine of
As Iran's economy is buffeted by inflation, the country's homeowners are fast becoming richer in a real-estate bubble that is driving affordable housing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens. A luxury 1,400-square-meter penthouse sold recently for $21 million at $15,000
US sanctions on Damascus have crippled the development of the national carrier Syrian Arab Airlines (SSA), Transport Minister Yaarob Badr said on Tuesday. Syria can not place orders for new planes "because of the US sanctions" which Washington imposed in
