A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

Kazakhstan is where Chinese President Xi Jinping first proposed the initiative of the Silk Road ... both Xian Xinghai Boulevard and Baikadamov Boulevard in Almaty, as well as a road dedicated ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formalized his country’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or New Silk Road ... economic cooperation in the past few years, most recently ...

Advances in archaeogenetics (the study of ancient DNA to investigate the human past) have revealed unexpected ... making them forerunners of the Silk Road dynamic. This re-evaluation has also ...

Between 2016 and 2021, museum expenditure grew at an average of 11.79 per cent annually. By the end of 2023, the number of museums in China had grown to 6,833, compared to 4,165 in 2013. This ...

The 78-year-old sits at the piano and sings and scats his way through both with the air of a man who might prefer to be watching the Scissor Sisters across the road at the Hydro. On this evidence ...

The Belt and Road Initiative was first proposed ... but stories of legendary characters such as Fa Xian, Xuan Zang, Alopen Abraham and Zheng He are more delightful. Since the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), ...

The 4th Silk Road Friendship Ceremony, hosted by the China International Culture Exchange Center, was held in Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region ...

The idea of the “Silk Road” is embedded in our historical imagination. The trail of Eurasian oasis cities and overland trade routes that linked China to the bazaars and markets of the Arab ...

Marzuki noted that Xi's proposal in Jakarta to co-build the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road," an important part of the Belt and Road Initiative, has brought significant benefits to the world and ...