A Chinese state-owned ship-building company has converted a bulk carrier into a floating farm that will produce 2,800 tons of ...

In a world beset by war, corruption and environmental destruction, many assume that the greatest threat to humanity is evil or malice. But Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who resisted ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

In December 1978, China and the US issued a Joint Communiqué in which the US side recognised “the government of the People’s ...

This has reference to an article by Dr Upul Wijayawardhana titled “Did the ‘unthinkable’ Happen?” in The Island of 22 July ...

The USSR under Stalin murdered almost all the known steadfast Marxists in the country. Those whom Stalin called "Trotskyites", the activists who stayed loyal to the working-class and democratic aims ...

Later, Mao Zedong developed “seeking truth from facts” into a political philosophy in his practice of leading the Chinese revolution, and made it the motto of the Party School of the Central Committee ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the ...

Thus, what sounds like a heavenly composition of cymbals, drums and gongs ushers in trumpets and a variety of horns, heralding China’s Coda, the ultimate symphonic sweep, the glory of a great battle ...