We Are On A Crossroads Humanity has been brought to a crossroads by coming of age with the Internet and digitalisation of daily lives, warned Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Australian commentator Robert Manne in a public discussion program Ideas at the House taken place at Sydney Opera House. Ideas at the House is a public lecture program hosted by Sydney […]
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Israel’s involvement with nuclear technology dates back to the founding of the country in 1948. In 1949 French atomic energy commissioner visited Israel and a joint research program was set up between the two countries. In the 1950s and early 1960s, France was Israel’s principal arms supplier, and helped Israel built a nuclear reactor and plutonium production facility. In return Israel spied […]
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Early last century, Harbin in Heilongjiang Province in China’s northeast was home to the most advanced biological warfare labs run by the Japanese army known as Unit 731, where a large number of native Chinese, as well as the captured resistance fighters from all over China and from Russia and Europea, became the raw materials of Japanese medical experiments. Here […]
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Legend had it that a county named Eternal Clarity (永清县) located halfway between Beijing and Tianjin was once a bloody battlefield a thousand years ago. The conflicts lasted for about 200 years between the Northern Song Dynasty and nomadic Tartars from the north who kept attacking the Middle Kingdom. It is said that of 55 villages in the area, 36 […]
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After WWII, the Korean Peninsula was divided along the 38th Parallel to be under the wings of the Soviet Union and the United States respectively, following the status quo in Germany, for the reason put forward by the Americans that judging by history, the Korean people were not yet ready for self-determination.
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When Tibetan lamas speak of love, compassion and tolerance, the dark history of Tibet and the cruel nature of Lamaism scream aloud in the background that anyone with an objective ear can hear clearly. The image shown in the picture is a horn vessel made of a human-leg-bone, used by Tibetan lamas to attempt black magic against their enemies. The […]
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From left to right: Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, General Iwane Matsui, and Prince Yasuhiko of Asaka in Nanjing, China, 18 Dec 1937 The Mastermind of the Nanjing Massacre Prince Asaka Yasuhiko was an uncle of Japanese Emperor Hirohito, who had directed a plan to wage a war against China as early as in 1935. In March of 1936, a year […]
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There are many versions on how the first death occurred, but all acknowledged that the mobs pounced on a soldier, the soldier with machine gun did not open fire; if he did, none of the attackers would have survived. But he opted not to, and consequently, he paid the price with his life.
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The following is an eye-twinness account penned in 2009 by 彩云舒, a Beijing scholar. English translation by Fish, photos and captions also added by Fish. In 1989, I briefly returned to Beijing for a research project that was jointly carried out by China’s Science Academy and an overseas company and had an opportunity to observe the whole process of the […]
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I didn’t see any dead bodies but noticed a large number of abandoned bicycles, and badly burned buses turned sideways, the metal pieces from the construction sites by the road and bullet holes in the walls.
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The following is a Chinese language post penned by 老气横秋 who participated and witnessed the Tiananmen Incident 1989 and its English translation. Photos and captions are added by Fish. May 18, 1989, Beijing factory workers joined the anti-corruption movement taking place in the Tiananmen Square initiated by university students. The corrupted officials were mainly referring to Deng Pufang, Deng Xiaoping’s […]
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At the north end of Bargor Street in the old town of Lhasa, adjacent to Jokhang Temple, there stands a three-storey building in typical Tibetan style. Covering an area of 720 square metres, the building was first erected in the 17th century by the fifth Dalai Lama as a government headquarters of Lhasa but was late turned into one of the most […]
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