See The View From The Moon With This Interactive Panorama From China's Rover
No one has stood on the moon since Neil Armstrong's 1969 trip, but thanks to the China National Space Administration's newly-landed moon rover, it's now possible for everyone to virtually stand on the...
View ArticleNo, People Aren't Actually Watching The Sunrise On TV In China
Rise and glow! In addition to the dull lightening of smog that now denotes morning in the polluted city of Beijing, the glow of an electronic rising sun on television has been added to simulate the...
View ArticleChina Leaders' Families Stash Riches In The British Virgin Islands
Relatives of top Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping and former premier Wen Jiabao have used offshore tax havens to hide their wealth, according to a mammoth investigation released...
View ArticleOne Of China's Most High-Profile Dissidents Refuses To Speak In Court
BEIJING (Reuters) - Prominent Chinese rights advocate Xu Zhiyong went on trial on Wednesday in the country's most high-profile dissident case in years, but his lawyer said he refused to offer any...
View ArticleRevenue Collapse In China Drags Down IBM Earnings
(Reuters) - IBM Corp missed revenue expectations for the fourth consecutive quarter as the world's biggest technology services company grappled with weakening demand for its servers and storage...
View ArticleSomeone Just Said Something About The Japan-China Conflict That Scared The...
I went to one of those fancy private dinners last night in Davos, Switzerland.Like most of the events here at the 2014 World Economic Forum, the dinner was conducted under what are known as "Chatham...
View ArticleShinzo Abe Compares Japan-China Tensions To UK-Germany Before World War I
Japan Prime Minster Shinzo Abe said the current tension between Japan and China is a “similar situation" as the rivalry Britain and Germany before World War I, Gideon Rachman of The Financial Times...
View ArticleWhy Did Huge Amounts Of Chinese Web Traffic Get Redirected To This House In...
On Tuesday, the Chinese Internet went almost completely screwy, with many of the biggest websites, including microblogging website Weibo, completely down for many users. Web analytic firms say today...
View ArticleRICH BERNSTEIN: The Next Big Investment Story Will Be About Who Gets The...
Market share: the next secular investment themeIt is well known that corporate profit margins are at record highs. US margins, developed market margins, and even emerging market margins are generally...
View ArticleNOT GOOD: Chinese Manufacturing Unexpectedly Contracts
China's HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI fell to a six-month low of 49.6 in January. This compares to a 50.5 in December.This was worse than the 50.3 economists were expecting. And any reading below 50...
View ArticleChina Is Bankrolling A Massive $10 Billion Megarefinery In Ecuador
China will finance most of the costs associated with building a $10 billion refinery in Ecuador, and become a partner in the megaproject, President Rafael Correa said Wednesday."That is just about a...
View ArticleLenovo Is Buying IBM's Low-End Server Business For $2.3 Billion (IBM)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's largest PC maker, agreed to buy IBM Corp's low-end server business in a long-awaited deal valued at about $2.3 billion, the biggest-ever tech...
View ArticleHere's The Excuse Everyone's Giving For The Ugly Chinese Manufacturing Report
China rocked the Asian markets on Thursday when it was revealed that manufacturing sector activity unexpectedly contracted in January.The HSBC Flash manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell...
View ArticleChina Cracks Down On Corruption Again By Sentencing A Municipal Official To...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese municipal official was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting more than $1 million in bribes, the official news agency reported on Thursday,...
View ArticleChina Has Massive Internet Breakdown Reportedly Caused By Their Own Censoring...
A firm specializing in censorship-evading technology on Wednesday blamed a massive breakdown of China's internet on website address "hijacking" tools used by authorities there."In 2002, China started...
View ArticleChinese Official Sentenced To Death On Graft Charges
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese municipal official was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting more than $1 million in bribes, the official news agency reported on Thursday,...
View ArticleHow Caterpillar Got Bulldozed In China
ZHENGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Asia's top mergers and acquisitions bankers gathered two years ago at the swanky Island Shangri La in Hong Kong to celebrate the top deals of 2012. As the transactions were...
View ArticleTesla Reveals Its Pricing Strategy For China
BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. battery car maker Tesla Motors Inc<TSLA.O> has unveiled what it describes as a "competitive" pricing strategy for China aimed at kick-starting sales in the world's...
View ArticleThis Android Chart Explains Why Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Obsessed With China...
This chart explains why Apple CEO Tim Cook went to China recently to launch Apple's new deal with wireless carrier China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier. Apple is basically getting its butt...
View ArticleAbe Issues New Year Message To Chinese-Speaking Locals
TOKYO (Reuters) - In a message on Thursday to local Chinese-language papers ahead of the lunar new year, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan had "built a free and democratic country and taken...
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