India successfully sends a spacecraft to Mars
India’s first mission to Mars – Mangalyaan was given a skeptical send off by the Chinese, yet by successfully leaving the earth’s orbit on December 1st 2013, it joined an elite ring of nations – the United States, Europe, and Russia, whose...
China establishes an air defence identification zoneChina establishes an air defence identification zone
Earlier this week China asserted her territorial control in the region by identifying an air defence identification zone over what she claims is her space. Not unusual for a nation to otherwise do so, what Beijing probably didn’t expect was an international...
China announces major economic reforms
Stock markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai jumped to a two and a half year high on news that China will be amending her one child policy, abolishing labour camps, and tweaking land, market, financial and social welfare reforms. The changes announced as part of...
