Harboring two UNESCO World Heritage sites, Afghanistan is seeking cooperation with China to strengthen its
efforts in cultural heritage preservation. The experience of China s Dunhuang Academy in the conservation of
grottoes and ancient sites can definitely serve as a valuable model for Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s campaign against women continues in Afghanistan. On Monday, reports came in that a team from the Afghan Ministry of Culture and Information and the controversial Vice and Virtue.
The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. Hundreds of meters below lies what is believed to be the world’s largest deposit of copper.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers are pinning their hopes on Beijing to turn that rich vein into revenue to salvage the cash-starved country amid crippling international sanctions.
The fighters standing guard by the rocky hillside might once have considered destroying the terracotta Buddhas. Two decades ago, when the Islamic hard-line Taliban were first in power, they sparked world outrage by blowing up gigantic Buddha statues in another part
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