On January 1, 2009, the city of Linz, Austria, will officially be designated as a Cultural Metropolis.

Greg Mortenson told an audience at San Diego City College of his effort to educate needy children.

Man has been arrested in the UAE for claiming to be a witch doctor and having magical powers.

Two people died and others were seriously wounded in a bomb attack in Xinjiang Province, China, August 27. The attack was directed at police in Jiash County, Kashi Prefecture, according to an AFP report.

A deadly blast near Pakistan's Afghanistan border on Aug. 21 killed 70 people and injured about 100.

Aside from the threat of nuclear war with Israel on top of trade sanctions from the EU, the Iranian government has another potent threat to its rule—Barbie.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims marched in Indian Kashmir's main city, protesting two decades of Indian rule.

Israeli terror victims are suing the Bank of China claiming it knowingly funded Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.

Pakistani cuisine offers pleasing taste sensations of a particular kind

Yemeni child brides, as young as nine years old, fight for their rights.

NEW YORK—Gordon Chang has written several books on China. The writer recently spoke at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York where he discussed what will happen in China after the Beijing Olympics.

August 12, 2008 - 19 Events, 61 Podiums

On “Meet the Press,” Joe Lieberman (CT) and Senator John Kerry (MA) faced off over whether McCain or Obama would be best fit for President.

The reactions to the recent Israel-Hezbollah swap in the Arab world varies from indifference to bragging and showing off, with terrorist organizations even celebrating with armed maneuver using live gunfire.

A backlash against Westerners is growing in Dubai following the arrest of a drunken British couple having sex on a public beach.

Last week, it was reported that the prosecutor was seeking an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Beijing has launched security measures dubbed the “Three-Tiered Security System,” as the Olympic Games approach.

The CCP's ‘all for the security of the Olympics' mindset is backfiring with everyday citizens in China.

BEIJING—China has executed two Uighurs and sentenced another 15 to jail for alleged terrorist links, Radio Free Asia said in a report just days after Beijing warned of “attacks” aimed at the Olympics. The Kashgar Intermediate People's Court sentenced two men–Mukhtar Setiwaldi and Abduweli Imin–to death and immediately executed them after a July 9 public […]

The struggle between Israel and the Hamas, an Islamic militant organization that denies Israel's right to exist, is now playing out on different grounds. Israel is realizing that besides controlling Hamas through military means, another maybe more effective way is to go after Hamas' lifeline—its worldwide fundraising network. It is estimated that through this network […]

KASHGAR, China—China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic Muslim Uighurs. Shops lining the torch route were shuttered and police stood guard on every street corner. Soldiers and firefighters patrolled the main square […]

On May 5, Tian Yixiang, the director of the military bureau's security command center for the Beijing Olympic Games, told a reporter from the military channel of Xinhua News Net that the main threat to security of the Olympic Games are “domestic forces against China, including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, the Tibetan Independent Movement, […]

BEIJING—A Chinese court sentenced a Uighur-Canadian to life in prison on Thursday for taking part in “terrorist activities and plotting to split the country”, the second ethnic Uighur activist jailed in China this week. The Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi, capital of the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, convicted Huseyin Celil, 37, of separatism and […]

BEIJING—A Chinese author and three lawyers have condemned media censors in an open letter to parliament for banning the writer's latest book, and called for an end to all forms of “unconstitutional” censorship. Zhang Yihe accused the cabinet's General Administration of Press and Publications of pulling Performers' Pasts, a book about the high-pitched masters of […]

The following material is provided by a senior military doctor from Shenyang who has previously provided information on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners. Recently in Beijing, the (CCP) concluded a secret conference titled, “Chinese Communist Party Military Commission Meeting on How to Treat Religions with Overseas Implications.” Lieutenant […]

When it comes to violation of religious freedom in China, the plight of Christians has generated the greatest international concern. Persecution of the Islamic Uighurs is rarely reported in the free press. According to a Uighur who preferred not to be named, since the September 11 attack on the Twin Towers, the Chinese communist regime […]