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Bahrain appoints first ambassador to Syria in over a decade (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain has appointed its first ambassador to Damascus since it downgraded ties early in the conflict in Syria. The appointment of Waheed Mubarak Sayyar, reported...

Germany withdraws award for Srebrenica genocide denier (Al Jazeera)

The German foreign affairs minister has withdrawn its proposal to award Israeli historian Gideon Greif with the country’s Order of Merit after the academic...

In 2021, normalisation failed to mask the suffering in Syria (Farah Najjar and Kareem Chehayeb, Al Jazeera)

The year 2021 marked a decade since Syria’s uprisings erupted, and the country is still mired in poverty and violence. What started with a brutal crackdown on...

Turkish wines risk drying up as economic and climate crises grow (Erin O’Brien, Al Jazeera)

As Gabriel Oktay Cili works in his small wood-panelled silver shop in the heart of the southeastern Turkish city of Mardin, several people drop...

Chinese diplomat urges new German govt not to play ‘Taiwan card’ as Lithuania aims to hold EU hostage (Li Xuanmin and Tu Lei, Global...

A Chinese diplomat in Germany has urged the new German government to play an active role in the EU, abide by the one-China principle...

Foreign chipmakers’ plants in Xi’an continue operations, but at lower capacity (Global Times)

Plants of major foreign chipmakers in Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, have continued their daily operations despite a lockdown in the...

China’s factory activity in Dec continues to pick up after policy stimulus (Global Times)

China's factory activity continued to pick-up in December from last month, indicating an improved expectation in the manufacturing sector driven by policy and financial...

RCEP to take effect on first day of 2022, extend Asia-Pacific industrial chains in closer bond (Global Times)

The world will see the establishment of its largest trade bloc, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), from the beginning of 2022, Chinese government...

China’s high-speed rail hits new milestone as it reaches the length of Equator (Global Times)

China's high-speed rail network hits a new milestone on Thursday, as it reached the length of the equator at around 40,000 kilometers, after a...

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