A Bizarre Video Shows 17 Children Crammed In A Tiny 'School Bus' Rickshaw In...
A bizarre video has emerged from China of police stopping a driver transporting 17 children to school in a small, motorized rickshaw in Guangxi Province on Thursday. Produced by Devan Joseph. Video...
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How The Navy's Latest Anti-Submarine Aircraft Sees Under The Waves
Boeing's P-8A Poseidon has been a part of the US Navy for a year this month. The converted airliner brings the latest in anti-submarine capabilities, reaching greater altitude and speed than its...
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The Chinese Economy Is Facing A $6.8 Trillion Nightmare That Could Get Worse
The Chinese economy has wasted $6.8 trillion (£4.3 trillion) in investment during the last four years.Six-point-eight trillion dollars.That's according to a report from China's National Development and...
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Chinese Billionaire Drops $45 Million On Tibetan Tapestry
Hong Kong (AFP) - An ancient Tibetan silk tapestry has set a world record for Chinese art after it was sold to a Shanghai tycoon for $45 million (HK$348 million) at auction in Hong Kong, according to...
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China Is Giving Up A Once-Critical State Monopoly It Has Held For 2,000 Years
They say things change quickly in China, but that’s not always true. Some things take a very long time indeed to change. Like the government’s monopoly on table salt, in force for the last two...
View ArticleBizarre Video Shows A Chinese Worker Demolishing An Industrial Chimney...
A bizarre video from China shows a man demolishing an industrial chimney brick-by-brick — a job that is more commonly carried out in one go using explosives. According to a local news report, the man...
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Macau Is 'Near Broken'
Casino revenue in Macau could fall 25% in December according to Wells Fargo, continuing an ugly months-long slide that is beginning to claim another victim — Las Vegas.Total casino revenue on the Las...
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China Just Knocked Off The Range Rover Evoque And Jaguar Land Rover Is Not...
Range Rover's Evoque crossover SUV has been one of the company's most popular offerings.Suffice to say, the people at Jaguar Land Rover (Range Rover's parent company) were not happy when a Chinese car...
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China Just Placed A Ban On Puns
China has banned the use of wordplay within its borders in all forms of media. No puns, idioms, or other creative uses of language allowed.It sounds like a joke, but it's true. According to The...
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Drugs And Weapons Are Pouring Into One Of China's Border Areas
A hundred metres from the tiered, gold-tipped roof of the official border crossing between China and Myanmar in Ruili, an unofficial international trade zone thrives—across a 7-metre (23-foot) high...
View ArticleCupping Therapy Is So Popular In China That People Just Do It In The Street
Chinese cupping therapy is taking the streets of Yunnan Province by storm. The therapy is believed to mobilize blood flow around the body and is thought to be effective in curing a variety of illnesses...
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Chinese Home Prices Slide For The 7th Straight Month
Shanghai (AFP) - China's housing prices fell on a monthly basis for the seventh straight month in November, a survey showed Sunday, with the market yet to feel the full impact of an interest rate...
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Chinese Manufacturing Is Teetering
Chinese manufacturing disappointed again in November. The country's manufacturing PMI missed expectations coming in at 50.3, analysts expected 50.5.Any number under 50 indicates a contraction in the...
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Oil Is The Worst And China Is The Best (USO)
There is just one month left in 2014, and year-to-date, oil is the worst performing asset class.Via Jim Reid at Deutsche Bank, when priced in local currency — for which Reid uses US dollars — WTI and...
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China's Tobacco Monopoly Is Flipping Out Over Efforts To Curb Smoking
BEIJING (Reuters) - The chief of China's powerful tobacco monopoly on Monday pushed back against government efforts to curb smoking, a habit the World Health Organization says accounts for as many as a...
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The 'Peasant Da Vincis' Of China Have Come Up With Some Brilliant Inventions
Danjiangkou (China) (AFP) - In the village where he was born, a Chinese chicken breeder emerged from a lake of green to tell of his life beneath the waves in a homemade orange submarine.Tan Yong bolted...
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China's Ban On Puns Comes Straight Out Of '1984'
China announced a ban on puns and casual alteration of idioms last week, warning that wordplay could lead to “cultural and linguistic chaos."If you think that sounds Orwellian, then you're right.The...
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Hong Kong's 'Occupy' Protest Founders Are Surrendering And Calling Off The...
The three original founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Occupy movement tearfully announced Tuesday they would "surrender" by turning themselves into police and urged protesters still on the streets...
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REPORT: China Is Cracking Down On Tax Avoidance By Foreign Companies
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will toughen its stance on tax avoidance by foreign firms to prevent tax payments being directed overseas, the official Xinhua news agency has said, after Beijing levied $140...
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PHOTOS: Inside The Luxury Chinese Hotel Where North Korea Keeps Its Army Of...
North Korea has put together a secret army of computer hackers that it uses to disrupt South Korean military options and break into US military computers. It might seem strange that North Korea has a...
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