China would like to enhance political trust with Tunisia, a visiting senior official of the Communist Party of China said on Monday. via Xinhuanet
"If we ve learned anything from the past few months it is that the present strategy in Gaza is not working"
' - ' Palestinians and Israelis must try to improve living conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to keep the peace process alive ahead of a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush in May, peace envoy Tony ... via Maktoob Business
"His release would signal to the international community that Libya is seriously committed to improving its human rights record"
The United States on Monday urged Libya to release without conditions an ailing political dissident now recovering in a Tripoli hospital. via Reuters
"The regions beyond the Great Wall were inaccessible to foreign travellers for so long, enticingly out of reach, that perhaps the most remarkable aspect about travelling there is simply the fact that we can."
- Canadian authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid have come out with their latest tome - a travel guide/coffee-table book/cookbook focused on China's outlying regions.
"Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China" (Random House Canada) includes lavish photographs from trips the pair made to Tibet, Mongolia, Guizhou, Xinjiang and other parts of the country.
Food in China is "one of life's great pleasures," they write in their introduction.
"But just as food in Spain is not only the food of Madrid or Barcelona, the food of China is much more than the food of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou." Read more
