David Cameron has resigned as British prime minister following the failure of his Remain side to win the referendum on staying in the EU. Mr Cameron called the vote on Brexit in 2013 under pressure from the anti-EU wing of his Conservative Party and Ukip, hoping to end decades of debate over the UK’s ties with Europe... With a turnout of 72.2 per cent, 51.9 per cent voted to leave; 48.1 per cent voted to remain ... Irish government reaction....
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne join a growing list of public figures and artists confronting the growing gun control crisis in the US this week by penning an impassioned plea in an essay in support of firearms restrictions, Billboard reported.Less than two weeks after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Byrne wrote, “We ware [sic] are ware here,” in an essay entitled “Guns Are About Freedom....
The dollar is surging around the world as investors and speculators seek a ‘safe haven’ as the U.K. lurches towards the European Union’s exit door. The pound is naturally the biggest loser, falling more than 15 cents–more than 9%–overnight against the greenback–and U.K. stock futures are tipped to open down over 6% according to Reuters ...U.S ... ....
Xi Jinping stresses on building a green, healthy, intelligent and peaceful SilkRoad in his speech delivered at the Legislative Chamber of the Uzbek SupremeAssembly... environmental protection to jointly build a green SilkRoad ... We should work to deepen cooperation on talent training to build a SilkRoad of intelligence....
Yo-Yo Ma and the SilkRoadEnsemble" (opening in theaters nationwide June 24) is a thoughtful, existential journey that asks ponderous questions about purpose - however, it's mired in too many different personal profiles to adequately explore its weighty soul-searching themes ... Yo-Yo Ma and the SilkRoad Ensemble," which screened during the 42nd Seattle International Film Festival, opens in theaters nationwide June 24....
Xi Jinping pointed out that the SilkRoad is a great treasure that we inherit from history. In 2013, I proposed to jointly build the SilkRoad Economic Belt and the 21st CenturyMaritimeSilkRoad... Xi Jinping pointed out that Central Asia was the gateway of the ancient SilkRoad ... Over the past 2000 years, the SilkRoad has recorded peaceful ......
Morgan Neville's high-budget HBO documentary about Ma and the musicians in his cross-cultural SilkRoadEnsemble captures all manner of real-life moments - especially as the initial kumbaya purpose behind the group's formation in 2000 becomes complicated and heightened with the geopolitics of our time ... In some ways, SilkRoad has ......
On the afternoon of June 21, 2016 local time, accompanied by Prime MinisterShavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan, PresidentXi Jinping toured the ancient historical and cultural city of Bukhara which is hailed as a 'living fossil of SilkRoad' during his state visit to Uzbekistan ... Xi Jinping pointed out that Bukhara is a shining pearl on the ancient SilkRoad....
Yo-Yo Ma & The SilkRoadEnsemble“ (2016) - In 1936, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, a violinist and music professor, moved from China to France to fuse Chinese music with French composing, but I wonder if he envisioned his son’s grander experiment, taking place 64 years later? ...Kennedy - blended together several cultures of music into an ornate and beautiful orchestra called, The SilkRoadProject, which eventually became The SilkRoad Ensemble....
(Source...Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 24 June 2016 ... Our greatest common project is the revival of the silk-roads, the one built one road, but silk-road was not one road. It was many roads sub-zoned under a single name and we in Afghanistan particularly look upon ourselves as the place the roundabout that connected Central and South Asia and Middle East. So, we welcome every step that is being taken for realization of the Silk-Roads ... (noodl....
Projects so far have focused on Pakistan, Tajikistan and Bangladesh - all countries which are close to Beijing's economic interests and to its ambitious new silkroad project, a plan to develop China's neighbours roughly along the former silkroad through Central Asia... This appears to confirm the concerns that the AIIB will disperse its money close to Beijing's economic interests, making it the investment arm behind the new silkroad....
The plan comes after Chinese PresidentXi Jinping said Chinese companies invested nearly $15 billion in countries participating in Beijing’s new SilkRoad initiative last year, up one-fifth from 2014 ...President Xi praises new SilkRoad, says $15 bn invested last year Xi Jinping, PM Modi to meet on sidelines of SCO summit in Tashkent Putin's ......