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Protestors Have Taken Over The Streets Of Hong Kong
Police say 92,000 pro-democracy protestors have flooded the streets of Hong Kong on the 17th anniversary of the end of colonial rule on the island.In recent years the day has become less a celebration,...
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Step Inside A Chinese Boot Camp For Teens Who Are Addicted To The Internet...
China was one of the first countries in the world to label "Internet addiction" as a clinical disorder posing a major threat to its teenagers. According to Reuters, the Chinese government has taken an...
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China Is Grappling With A Massive Oversupply Of Shopping Malls
China’s massive shopping mall building spree and spate of new department store openings mean that competition is tougher than ever for domestic shopping centers attracting discerning Chinese luxury...
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Why Hong Kong Is Having Its Biggest Protests Since 1997
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Since Britain handed back colonial Hong Kong in 1997, retired primary school teacher and Falun Gong devotee Lau Wai-hing has fully exercised the freedoms China promised...
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Dozens Of Samsung's Chinese Suppliers Have Violated Labor Standards
Samsung says an external audit found labour violations at dozens of its suppliers in China, including failure to provide safety gear and excessive working hours, but that none involved child...
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China’s Internal Tensions Are Reaching Dangerous Levels
Last fall, I described what I saw as an “accumulating risk of crisis” in China.Recent developments in two parts of the country only reinforce my sense that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is...
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Why The Hong Kong Protesters Can't Win
Editor's note: Following giant protests in Hong Kong, people on Quora are discusing what will happen in Hong Kong if the CCP continues to interfere with their autonomy. We've published the full answer...
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Why Hollywood Is Inserting These Two Huge Chinese Actresses Into Its Summer...
If you headed out to see "Transformers: Age of Extinction" over the weekend, you may have noticed the above actress, Li Bingbing, in a supporting role.While most are probably not very familiar with the...
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Arsenic Pollution Has Decimated This Village In China And Cursed The...
HESHAN China (Reuters) - Xiong Demin could not have foreseen that the mine he worked at for 32 years would leave his home village poisoned and hundreds of residents, including himself and his wife,...
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Chinese State Media Had The Most Unintentionally Comedic Response To The...
On July 1, residents of Hong Kong turned out in historic numbers to protest the country's lack of democracy.Over 500,000 people are said to have come out to mark the 17th anniversary of the handover,...
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Chinese Propagandists Caught In Blatant Photoshop Fail
There were huge pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong this week, and as we already noted, state media in China reacted pretty awkwardly, describing the event as a big chance for everyone to exercise and...
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China Arrests More Than 500 Anti-Communist Protesters In Hong Kong, As...
State-run newspapers in mainland China fight to discredit one of the largest pro-democracy rallies in the country’s recent history after hundreds of thousands hit Hong Kong’s streets to protest against...
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Here's Why China Isn't Ready To Send Its Military Into Hong Kong
Pro-democracy protestors took to the streets of Hong Kong on July 1 marching for universal suffrage, the right to vote. This came on the back of an informal referendum held by pro-democracy group...
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China Seeks To Counterbalance The US Pivot To Asia
BEIJING (Reuters) - The Silk Road, an obscure Kazakh-inspired security forum and a $50 billion Asian infrastructure bank are just some of the disparate elements in an evolving Chinese strategy to try...
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Russia's Internet Is Becoming More And More Like China's
Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 30 signed legislation that could punish Internet users with prison terms for reposting or retweeting material deemed “extremist” by the government. Critics call...
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Chinese Soccer Ball Exporters Love The World Cup
Soccer fans don't just buy jerseys and shoes when the World Cup comes around. They buy balls.This chart from Bloomberg LP Chief Economist Michael McDonough tracks China export volume for footballs...
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5 Unanswered Questions Regarding President Xi Jingping's Corruption Crackdown
Xi's efforts to rein in corruption have surprised many and there is much speculation about what is really going in with the crackdown. Among the key questions:1. Is it a political purge, is it a...
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Emerging TV Markets Are Going To Crush European TV Markets
The rise of emerging markets is taking place in TV, too, with China set to pass the U.K. in 2014 and Germany in 2016 to become the second most valuable TV market behind the U.S.Here's a chart showing...
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China's Top Anti-Corruption Cop Warns Crooks No One Is Off Limits
BEIJING (Reuters) - No part of China's ruling Communist Party is off limits for its crackdown on corruption, the country's top graft buster was quoted as saying, sounding a warning a few days after the...
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Two Visions Of China's Future Are Colliding On Hong Kong's Streets
In the end, warnings from Beijing about sowing chaos did not scare the people of Hong Kong. Rather, they were emboldened. On July 1st hundreds of thousands of residents marched through the streets of...
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