ISLAMABAD – Muhammad Javed Afridi, a Pakistani business executive and entrepreneur, received the award of the first Silk Road Friendship Ambassador. The CEO of Haier Pakistan and owner of the cricket franchise Peshawar Zalmi, attended the award ceremony virtually. “It is a great honor to ...

ROME: Chinese President Xi Jinping sought Friday to allay Western unease over his new Silk Road initiative by emphasising the vast infrastructure project’s two-way nature as he kicked off a whistlestop European tour in Rome. Italy has rolled out the red carpet for Xi, who will on Saturday ...

BEIJING - Pakistan Ambassador to China, Masood Khalid along with ambassador of other four countries including Maldives, Sri Lanka, Malta and Bosnia, and Herzegovina was conferred Silk Road Super Ambassador Award. “Silk Road Super Ambassador” award ceremony was organized by Silk Road Cities ...

BEIJING – A maritime silk road satellite data service centre has opened in Fuzhou, east China’s Fujian Province, according to the website of State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. The data service center, providing standard data products, ...

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) would plan to construct motels at China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) silk route to facilitate tourists in a better environment. Managing Director PTDC Abdul Ghafoor Tuesday said ,"PTDC wanted to acquire land at CPEC silk route for the ...

XIAN: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday China and Europe should work together on Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative, a project aiming to build a modern-day “Silk Road” he said could not be “one-way”. “The ancient Silk Roads were never ...

- , New Silk Road plan , Silk Road NEWS DESK: Depending on who you ask in Europe, China’s colossal East-West infrastructure programme is either an opportunity or a threat — and when French President Emmanuel Macron visits next week, Beijing will be watching to see how keen he is ...

ISLAMABAD - China's Shanghai-based Silk Road Fund has committed to financing the North South Pipeline project, says a government official.Encouraged by the financing pledge from the Silk Road Fund, Pakistan and Russia are set to sign a project implementation deal on December 21 this year.Earlier, ...

BEIJING: China’s ambition to build a new Silk Road is not about seeking to expand its military role abroad nor about seeking to set up foreign bases, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.The new Silk Road, formally known as the Belt and Road initiative in China, is President Xi Jinping’s ...

BEIJING: US companies are ready to get involved in China’s Silk Road project, an American official said Sunday, as Washington strikes an increasingly cooperative tone with its biggest trade rival. President Donald Trump was scathing about China’s trade policies on the campaign trail, but ...