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China's Title For 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Is Hilariously Awkward
Because some Hollywood movies feature titles with idioms or complicated phrases that won't market well in foreign territories, it's not uncommon for film's names to be changed when reels get sent...
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10 Things People Do In China That Outsiders Find Crazy
What things can an expat get away with that would be socially unacceptable in the West? appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are printing an answer from Andy Warwick, who has lived in Shanghai...
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Why A Small Chinese Insurance Company Is Paying $2 Billion For The Waldorf...
Chinese investment in foreign commercial real estate is booming. Hilton Worldwide Holdings just announced it is selling the iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan to the Anbang Insurance Group of...
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China's Services Sector Is Growing, But It's Slowing
BEIJING (Reuters) - Growth in China's services sector weakened slightly in September as new business cooled, a private survey showed on Wednesday, reinforcing signs of a slowdown in the world's...
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China Just Overtook The US As The World's Largest Economy
Sorry, America. China just overtook the US to become the world's largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.Chris Giles at the Financial Times flagged up the change. He also alerted...
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The Umbrella Revolution Is About To Get Stonewalled In Talks With Government
Hong Kong pro-democracy protests that brought tens of thousands on to the streets last week dwindled to a few hundred on Wednesday after activist leaders agreed to talks with the government which are...
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'CRACKDOWN OR BACK DOWN': Hong Kong Protesters Face Stark Choices
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Student protesters galvanized Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement with their energy and ideological zeal, bringing tens of thousands of people on to the streets in a show of...
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KFC Is Counting On These New Menu Items To Save Business In China
KFC parent company Yum Brands was hit hard by a Chinese food safety scandal. The company cut the profit outlook in a recent earnings announcement. Sales in China fell 14% in the most recent quarter as...
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President Xi Jinping Is Rewriting China's Power Playbook
With a speed and toughness not imagined when he took China's top job as head of the Communist Party, President Xi Jinping has not only consolidated power but is overseeing such an extensive crackdown...
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Chinese State-Run Media Has Started Attacking North Korea Over The Country's...
Chinese media has published a run of negative articles over its supposed ally, North Korea, the BBC reports. The articles have appeared in China's Beijing News, the Global Times, and the personal blog...
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This Olive Oil Deal Is Another Sign That Chinese Food Tastes Are Changing
Bright Food, a Shangai-based food company, said on Tuesday that it has a bought a majority stake in Italian olive oil maker SALOV, the company behind the famous Filippo Berio brand, Patti Waldmeir at...
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China May Have Committed A Tiananmen Square-Scale Massacre This Year — And...
Many feared that the recent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong would end with a crackdown reminiscent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, when the Chinese army crushed a peaceful student occupation...
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The Center Of Hong Kong Has Been A Traffic-Free Oasis For Two Weeks And...
Hong Kong (AFP) - Pedestrianized streets, al fresco art, urban picnic zones and recycling points have become part of the landscape in central Hong Kong as a result of mass protests -- and some...
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China Is Looking For An Endangered Siberian Tiger That Putin Personally...
China is on the hunt for a rare Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin.Chinese state media reported on October 9 that Russia has informed Chinese forestry officials...
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Here's Why There Probably Isn't A Coup Happening In North Korea
A lot of stranger-than-usual things have been going on in North Korea lately. Kim Jong-Un hasn't been seen in public for weeks, a period when the country sent a surprise delegation to South Korea —...
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Anonymous Threatens To Release Thousands Of Chinese And Hong Kong Government...
Anonymous, the nebulous online activist group that uses hacking to further causes it supports, has threatened a major blackout of Chinese and Hong Kong government websites and to leak tens of thousands...
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Democracy Protests Surge Again In Hong Kong
Thousands of people are pouring into a main road in Hong Kong to show support for a pro-democracy protest after the government called off talks with student leaders.After a week that saw flagging...
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A Massive Chinese Property Company Just Canceled A Share Offering, And The...
Trading in Agile Property Holdings, a $20 billion real estate development company in mainland China, has been suspended since Oct. 3, pending information about a share offering that was supposed to...
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Here's Why The 'Umbrella Revolution' Isn't Going Anywhere
The pro-democracy protests that have gripped Hong Kong since late September have reached an impasse that appears to suit the territory's government and its backers in Beijing. As The Economist went to...
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