Tag: China

NOVANEWS By Andre Vltchek Global Research, It is truly an amazing site: monstrous US hotels and casinos, just a few hundred meters from the Mainland China. All that kitsch that one usually associates with Las Vegas or Atlantic City, but bigger, much bigger! In fact, Macau is the biggest casino sprawl in the world. Casinos, most of them confined inside the US mega-hotels, make approximately 5 times more money here, than in Las Vegas. You want Venetian; a tremendous mind-blowing temple of bad taste, complete with a fake San Marco Square, canals, gondolas (gondoliers don’t sing O Sole Mio, thank God, as they are mostly from Portugal) and overcooked pasta – it is all here; one of the largest buildings on earth, and the biggest casino in the universe! Biggest casino in the world – ...

NOVANEWS Xi Jinping speaks as China's new Politburo Standing Committee members meet with the press at the Great Hall of the People. | Photo: Reuters. The Asian country saw economic growth of 6.9 percent last year. China contributed 30 percent to global economic growth in 2017, well above the United States, the European Union and Japan, said a report from the National Bureau of Statistics Wednesday. RELATED: China Leading Research in Immune Cell Therapy Against Cancer The Asian country saw economic growth of 6.9 percent last year. China was also commended for its efforts to protect the environment through energy-saving and use of renewable energy sources. In addition, its One Belt, One Road initiative is increasingly being seen as a positive force, when compar...

NOVANEWS By F. William Engdahl Global Research On 27 November Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, already at odds with the unelected bureaucrats of the European Union over his insistence on the right to decide whether Brussels or national elected governments shall be allowed to become citizens in Europe’s ongoing refugee crisis, waved another red flag, this potentially a future game-changer for the EU as it exists today. Orban hosted the 6th annual meeting of the China- Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) “16+1” summit in Budapest with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang. The event got barely a mention in western mainstream media despite the fact that it may have set the seeds for a divide within the EU within the coming months between a French-German-dominated feder...

NOVANEWS By People's Daily People's Daily   Academic research papers from China garner the second most worldwide citations, after those from the United States but ahead of those from the United Kingdom, according to a new study. The analysis was conducted by Amsterdam-based information and analytics company Elsevier and commissioned by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Citations are the way in which scholars give credit to other researchers and acknowledge their ideas. They indicate how seriously research is taken by other scientists. Elsevier assessed the performance of the UK’s research base between 2010 and 2014 and compared it with seven other countries: China, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US. The analysis found that in 2...