In March 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the vision of a global community of shared future; in September and October that year, he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI)....
Today, most countries in the world have canals. Some canals, such as the Suez or the Panama, (31) ships weeks of time by making their voyage a thousand miles shorter. Other canals permit boats to reach cities that are not located on the coast. (32) other canals drain lands where the...
Pasture is a predominant land use for the globe's agricultural areas, with Australia ranking second in the world for countries with the most pasture lands. These lands are primarily grazed by beef, sheep, and dairy livestock. It is forecasted that the total value of livestock exports from Aust...
No Change in Rank from 2023 Read More The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, is a federation of seven emirates on the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula. The country, wedged between between Oman and Saudi Arabia, has rocky desert, wetlands, waterless mountains and coastlines that stretch alon...
It is dedicated to Saint Isaac of Dalmatia, a patron saint of Peter the Great, who had been born on the feast day of that saint. The cathedral’s main dome rises 101.5 meters (333 feet) and is plated with pure gold. I took this photo in the summer of 2012. The historic center ...
Made up of more than 18,000 islands that span some 4,700 kilometers from east to west,Indonesiacovers a huge area. As such, the nation is one of the most diverse places on Earth – whether that’s in terms of people, culture, and languages or landscapes and wildlife. ...
Meanwhile, the UN believes that India’s population will peak somewhere in the mid 2060s, just shy of the 1.7 billion mark. India’s population will not age as quickly as its neighbor. Those over the age of 65 will represent less than one-fifth of the population until 2060, and their ...
With countless number of restaurants in Khan Market, it’s no surprise that foodies easily get overwhelmed with options. While I love going back to my favorite […] January 2, 2025 Ba Na HILLS in Da Nang in Vietnam Are you travelling to Vietnam? Any trip to Da Nang is incomplete wit...
The Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines, the humanitarian organization that's been testing RELand, first deployed the system in late summer 2023. By the end of that year, the organization had uncovered three landmines in a region RELand predicted to have many. In the other region, predicted ...
serpentine beasts, and more roam the desert. The nomadic inhabitants of Desierto eke out a meager existence from the unforgiving land. Some have built small outposts to defend the few oases, while others delve into long-lost catacombs in search of the untold riches that must surely lay buried...