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China's Got $3.6 Billion Worth Of IPOs In The Pipeline
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's regulator posted draft initial public offering (IPO) prospectuses for 18 Chinese firms on Monday, bringing the total number of potential issuers up to 46, with state media...
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The Robot Restaurant in China's Heilongjiang Province is a conventional restaurant in every sense, save the glaring exception that the food is prepared and served entirely by an army of 20 robots with...
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Relative Of Missing Malaysia Passenger: 'Not A Single One Of Our Questions...
Relatives of flight MH370 passengers have denounced the Malaysian government's suggestion that it would soon look into issuing death certificates for those on board despite no proof yet of what...
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Search For Missing Malaysia Jet Reveals China's Navy Vulnerability
When Chinese naval supply vessel Qiandaohu entered Australia's Albany Port this month to replenish Chinese warships helping search for a missing Malaysian airliner, it highlighted a strategic headache...
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Fears Of China's Supposed 'Lehman Moment' Have Been Completely Overblown
Editor's Note: Below is a Q&A with Rob Rennie, Global Head of Market Strategy at Australia's Westpac. This Q&A went out to subscribers of our "10 Things You Need To Know Before The Opening...
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Chinese Manufacturing Still In Contraction
HSBC China Flash manufacturing PMI climbed to a two-month high of 48.3 in April.This was in line with expectations and above a reading of 48 in March.But a reading below 50 shows that China's...
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Obama Visits Japan As 'Asia Pivot' Causes Confusion
US President Barack Obama's Asian tour starts in Japan on Wednesday, lifting the lid on a bubbling cauldron of regional animosities and exposing historical rifts.Obama touches down in Tokyo after...
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60% Of China's Underground Water Is Too Polluted To Drink
Sixty percent of underground water in China which is officially monitored is too polluted to drink directly, state media have reported, underlining the country's grave environmental problems.Water...
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Cheap Smartphones Will Create A New Breed Of Innovation
This year, for the first time, BI Intelligence estimates that more than one billion smartphones will ship globally. And many of those smartphones will be purchased by first-time users in emerging...
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Land Rover Is Making A Diesel Hybrid Range Rover For China
The first diesel hybrid cars for sale in China will be an extended wheelbase Range Rover and a Range Rover Sport, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced today.China is a key market for JLR, and sales in...
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Why Justin Bieber's Instagram From Japan Offended Over A Billion People
Justin Bieber has apologized for and removed an Instagram photo of his visit to a controversial Japanese World War II shrine after the image outraged Chinese and South Korean fans.The Yasukuni Shrine...
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Here's Why Mexico Is Increasingly Becoming A Crucial Global Manufacturing Hub
China's low-cost labor force wages, weak yuan, and high investment helped make it a manufacturing and exporting hub. But over time, as the yuan appreciated, wage inflation ticked up, and supply chains...
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China Declares War On Satirical Twitter Account That Mocks State Officials
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece has taken to Twitter, banned in China, to call for the "immediate rectification" of an account which uses the social media platform to satirize...
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Chinese Are Dominating The International Real Estate Market Without Even...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - For some Chinese investors, the first step to purchasing millions of dollars in property on the other side of the globe is a lot like ordering a new t-shirt online - search and...
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There’s A Giant Wall Of Dust Barreling Across China
A wall of dust was barreling across northern China on April 23, 2014, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired these images from NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites. The top...
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China Plans To Start Building 7 Million New Public Homes To Cool Real Estate...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China aims to start building more than 7 million units of public housing this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said on Saturday, signaling the latest...
View ArticleHere's When And Where Kissing Strangers Three Times On The Cheek Is OK
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Desperate Luxury Brands Are Breaking The 'No Discount' Rule In China
They are well-known rules of Hermès—no sales; no selling at shopping malls. But these rules went out the window when Hermès held a discount sale last Tuesday to clear unsold stock at the Hyatt Regency...
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China's Resource-Dependent And Manufacturing-Heavy Provinces Are Seeing A...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's resource-dependent and manufacturing-heavy provinces suffered the sharpest growth slowdown in the first quarter as the government pushed to reduce overcapacity and...
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China Has Accomplished Something In Global Trade Not Seen Since Colonial Britain
China's exports and imports of goods amounted to $4.16 trillion in 2013, topping the U.S. for the first time.A new Standard Chartered report by Madhur Jha and other Standard Chartered economists,...
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