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8 Charts That Clearly Confirm China Is Slowing Down
GDP growth in China decelerated to 7.4% in Q1, the slowest pace of growth since Q3 2012.While this was better than economists' expectations, it was below the government's 7.5% growth target for the...
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CHINA: Our Economy Is In Way Better Shape Than What The Data Suggests
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy is doing better than official data suggests, the Commerce Ministry said a day after figures showed growth at an 18-month low, adding that targets for exports and...
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30,000 Workers Are Striking At China’s Biggest Shoe Factory In One Of...
BEIJING (AP) — A strike at the Chinese factories of the world's biggest athletic shoe maker snowballed Thursday to about 30,000 workers, a labor group said, making it one of the largest-ever work...
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These Are The Low-Cost Asian Smartphone Innovators That Pose The Greatest...
The next wave of smartphone growth will be driven almost wholly by emerging markets. In particular, China and India will see half a billion smartphones sold this year, with a majority of these sales...
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Chinese Government Admits One Fifth Of Country's Farmland Is Polluted
BEIJING (AP) — China's government says in a report that nearly one-fifth of the country's farmland is polluted, mostly from yearslong accumulations of toxins from factories, mining and agriculture.The...
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Japan Is Making A Dangerous Move That Could Ignite Tensions With China
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is sending 100 soldiers and radar to its westernmost outpost, a tropical island off Taiwan, in a deployment that risks angering China with ties between Asia's biggest economies...
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Why Investors Are Struggling To Figure Out How To Make Money In China
Screenwriter William Goldman once wrote that “nobody knows anything” in Hollywood.What the scribe behind “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” meant was that nobody ever...
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China: Building The Dream
SOME HISTORIANS BELIEVE that Marco Polo never went to China. But even if the 13th-century Venetian merchant did not lay eyes on the coastal city of Hangzhou himself, he certainly reflected the awe it...
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Special Report: China - The City As Pastiche: Dreaming Spires
A Shanghai suburb that is forever England.Oxford Street is a quiet cobbled lane, with Tudor-style shop fronts and lights supposed to look like gas lamps. At one end it opens out onto a small square. A...
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China’s Interest In Venezuela Is As Strong As Ever
Venezuela’s political system is based on three foreign imports: socialist rhetoric from Cuba, weapons from Russia and money from China. The formula, established by the late President Hugo Chávez, has...
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This Chart Shows How The Rest Of The World Doesn't Even Come Close To US...
Earlier this week, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a Fact Sheet identifying global, regional, and national trends in military expenditures. According to the...
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Chinese Yuppies Are The New Driving Force In The Global Car Market
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Global automakers are scrambling to meet the demands of China's young urban professionals, who want a car that makes them stand out, yet don't always have the money to...
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China Spreading The Wealth: A Billion Shoppers
DENG HONG’S AMBITION, according to a Chinese newspaper, was to build a city inside a single building; a "temperature-controlled paradise". Last September his dream edifice, the New Century Global...
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China Is Cracking Down Hard On Online Porn
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has shut down more than 100 websites carrying pornography and closed thousands of accounts on social media sites in an re-newed effort to clean up the internet, state media...
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No One's Buying Chinese Economic Doomsday Insurance
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult, five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global economy.But when it comes to China, the world's...
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Workers At A Chinese Adidas Shoe Supplier Continue Their Massive Strike
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - One of China's biggest strikes in years stretched into a second week on Monday, and spread from a huge shoe production complex in southern Guangdong province to a facility owned by...
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Brittney Griner Makes 12 Times As Much Money Playing Basketball In China
Like many of the top American women's basketball players, Brittney Griner spends her WNBA offseason playing basketball overseas and when the salaries are compared it is easy to see why.Griner, who was...
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This Super-Luxurious Chinese Sedan Just Sold For $800,000
What do a Bentley Flying Spur, a Ferrari 458, and a 1,900-square-foot South Beach Condo have in common with each other?They all cost less than the $803,000 a Chinese businessman paid for his Hongqi L5...
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9 Ways Chinese Consumers Are Completely Changing
As China’s consumer market continues to evolve at a rapid speed, habits and expectations are constantly changing. A new report by media agency MEC has put together a report of nine consumer trends it’s...
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Here's Why Big Companies Are Planning To Invest Less In China
BEIJING (Reuters) - Multinational firms are planning to invest less in China because of market access barriers and slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy, a U.S. business lobby said on...
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