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                    [Title] => Retracing old Silk Road: China’s original thrust
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Beijing’s present-day economic-diplomatic initiative replicates the one that began more than two millenniums ago.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-10 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1516330 [Title] => Along the Silk Road [Summary] =>

Over the last week and half, I had been tracing portions of the old Silk Road through the cities of Xian, Urumqi, Turpan and Dunhuang.

[DatePublished] => 2015-10-29 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 740146 [Title] => The Silk Road Diary 3: Desert Madness [Summary] =>

I most looked forward to the desert, and it did not disappoint. Northwestern China has two significant deserts: the formidable Gobi, the fifth largest in the world with 1.3 million square kilometers, and the fearsome Taklamakan, 337,000 square kilometers often referred to as the Sea of Death, with poisonous snakes, fierce sand storms, boiling days and freezing nights.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135927 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1281489 [AuthorName] => Doreen G. Yu [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 12414 [Title] => Climate change, humans endanger historic Silk Road stop [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-12 14:33:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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