In what was the first opposition rally authorized by the Armenian government in two months, thousands of people assembled in Yerevan at the weekend to voice support for former President Levon Ter-Petrosian ...
President Serzh Sarkisian completed the formation of his coalition government on Monday with the appointment of five more ministers, among them an influential figure close to his predecessor Robert Kocharian. ...
The Foreign Affairs Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandyan announced that a special group will be founded in the FAM of the RA to cover the NKR questions. The announcement was made when the FAM minister ...
A torch procession that has already become a tradition will be held in Yerevan under the slogan "My name is struggle, my death is victory" to commemorate victims of the Armenian Genocide at the hands ...
An event dedicated to Swiss humanist Jacob Kunzler, representative of German Eastern Mission and doctor at local Swiss Mission Hospital in Western Armenia, will he held in Armenian Genocide Museum Institute ...
The OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and Council of Europe's Venice Commission today welcomed the agreement reached with leading Armenian state representatives to make c...
Today the secretary of the Prosperous Armenia Party Aram Safaryan disproved the news covered by local media that if the party was concerned getting equal portfolios as the other members of the political ...
The 24 April Committee of the Federation of Armenian Organizations in The Netherlands (FAON) will hand over a Dutch translation of the book "The First Holocaust" by Robert Fisk on the Armenian Genocide ...
From CNN:Nepal has given its security personnel permission to shoot pro-Tibet demonstrators during China's Olympic flame climb to Mount Everest's summit early next month.Everest and the Himalayan mountain range seen from the air."About 25 soldiers and policemen have established camps
From the Los Angeles Times:We arrived at the north train station in Chongqing, this central Chinese city at 12:25 p.m. on a Thursday, five minutes before our scheduled departure. The ticket lines were so long they spilled out of the
From USA Today via RedOrbit.com:China, already the world leader in cellphone use, has surpassed the USA as the No. 1 nation in Internet users.The number of Chinese on the Internet hit more than 220million as of February, according to estimates
China has a "'Long Way to Go' On Rights, Pollution And Press Freedom," according to Jill Drew and Maureen Fan of the Washington Post:China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage a grand Olympics. Athletes will
This month, the popular photo-sharing site Flickr expanded its hosting services to video. So far, nearly 400 videos have been geotagged from China, which you can view by clicking on the map below:Flickr video limits users to posting 90-second clips.
From AP via Examiner.com:China Mobile Ltd., the country's biggest mobile phone carrier, said Monday its first-quarter profits surged while China Telecom Ltd., the country's main fixed-line carrier, reported essentially flat earnings, reflecting a shift in consumer tastes.Consumers in China increasingly
AFP ) - The Bank of England unveiled a 100-billion-dollar plan Monday to get Britain's home loan market moving again in the latest attempt to combat the global credit crunch. Britain's central bank said it would allow high street banks
