Construction Begins On Complex That Redefines Beijing's 'City Landscape'
Natural lighting, intelligent building, and an innovative air purification system is expected to help MAD achieve LEED Gold certification upon completion in 2016.Construction has commenced on MAD’s...
View ArticleChina Doesn’t Understand The Concept Of American Chinese Food
If you’re a Westerner, even if the closest you’ve got to Asian culture is stumbling across the Great Wall on Google Earth, you know that Chinese people don’t crack open fortune cookies after every...
View ArticleChina Has A Secret Plan For The Collapse Of The North Korean Government
Beijing's lack of faith in rule of Kim Jong-un exposed in contingency plans to detain key North Korean leaders, set up border refugee camps and respond to "foreign forces"China has drawn up detailed...
View ArticleNearly Two-Thirds Of People In China Consider Themselves 'Envirionmentalists'
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - In China, the world's biggest polluter, about 64 percent of people identify themselves as environmentalists, more than double that of Europe and the United States, a report...
View ArticleChinese Police Will Soon Patrol The Streets Of Paris
Chinese police will be patrolling the streets of Paris this summer alongside their French counterparts to help combat a surge in attacks against high-spending Chinese tourists.The French authorities...
View ArticleHere's Why Chinese Export Growth Is Way Higher Than They're Saying
China's April trade stats were much stronger than expected.Exports climbed by 0.9%, beating expectations for a 3.0% decline.Imports increased by 0.8%, which was much stronger than the 2.1% drop...
View ArticleHere's How Alibaba Turns Chinese Farmers Into Multimillionaires
Thousands of miles from Wall Street, where Alibaba Group has filed for a multi-billion-dollar IPO, Chinese farmers are swapping tractors for luxury cars after making fortunes through the Internet...
View ArticleCheap Smartphone Makers In Asia Hold The Keys To The Next Wave Of Mobile Growth
Apple and Samsung have dominated the smartphone market for years. But now that the developed market is basically saturated, these companies no longer just have each other to worry.The real threat these...
View ArticleJapan’s F-35s Could Give It A Big Advantage Over China
Japan, guided by fiery nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has committed to purchasing 42 F-35As with the possibility of ordering more in the future. Although the F-35 has had a controversial run in...
View Article10 Striking Photos Of Identical Twins Show How Time Affects People Differently
Identical twins are nearly identical at birth. But what happens after birth?Chinese photographer Gao Rong Guo recently tried to answer that question, traveling across his hometown province of Shandong...
View ArticleWhy The Cultures Of North And South China Are So Different
The U.S. has red states and blue states. China has rice provinces and wheat provinces, and the profound differences between them provide evidence of how cultural assumptions arise.According to...
View ArticleChina Is Worried Its Students Are Being Recruited As Foreign Spies
Chinese state media is warning students studying overseas to avoid foreign spies, writing that an "overseas intelligence agency"has repeatedly seduced Chinese students to conduct espionage against...
View ArticleHere's The Story Of Alibaba's Rise
BEIJING (AP) — Even before Alibaba went online, its founder talked about making the fledgling e-commerce company a global player.At Alibaba Group's first staff meeting in 1999, a video shot by an...
View ArticleWhy China Loses Out If Sanctions On Iran Are Lifted
The past few years have been good to Chinese companies doing business in Iran, with the oil industry offering the biggest opportunity of all, but things might start getting tougher.As Western...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Admits The Government Is Looking Into Its Hiring Practices In Asia
(Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc <GS.N> disclosed on Friday that it was being investigated over its hiring practices outside the United States.The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this...
View ArticleA Second Rice Revolution Could Save Millions Of Lives
Technological breakthroughs in rice will boost harvests and cut poverty. They deserve support.When, in 1961, the government of India asked a celebrated wheat breeder, Norman Borlaug, for advice about...
View ArticleChinese Engineers Are Designing A Massive High-Speed Railway To Connect China...
Digging a hole to China may not sound as crazy in the near future as it does now. That's because some ambitious Chinese engineers are considering plans to build a high-speed railway line beneath the...
View ArticleUS Lawmakers Call Chinese Actions In South China Sea 'Troubling'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Six U.S. senators urged their colleagues on Friday to support legislation reaffirming U.S. support for freedom of navigation, saying they consider China's recent actions in the...
View ArticleChina's Top Central Banker Says A Big Stimulus Isn't Coming
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will not use any large-scale stimulus to boost its economy, Central Bank Chief Zhou Xiaochuan was reported as saying on Saturday, in response to speculation that authorities...
View ArticleThis Is Why American Investors Missed Out On Alibaba And Other Chinese...
Alibaba’s recently announced $16 billion IPO has VentureBeat reporters scratching our collective head: Why weren’t more U.S. growth funds involved in Alibaba’s rise to domination?Alibaba has a hand in...
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