This Chinese man can draw a life-like portrait of Vladimir Putin on an egg
Artist Guan Qingsheng from China uses a pencil, knife and a piece of wire to engineer life-like portraits of famous people on chicken eggs. The 62-year-old artist used to work as a designer at a wood...
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It's raining money in China as its biggest internet companies battle over...
The Chinese Lunar New Year couldn't come sooner for mobile app users in China.In a battle for supremacy in China's mobile payments industry, internet giants Alibaba and Tencent are giving out money in...
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India's ailing air force is at risk in tough neighborhood
BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - India's air force risks a major capability gap opening up with China and Pakistan without new western warplanes or if local defense contractors can't produce what the...
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Chinese fortune tellers give their predictions for the 'Year of the Sheep'
Hong Kong (AFP) - The Year of the Horse brought catastrophic international air accidents, brutal terror attacks, global political upheaval, a resurgent Ebola virus and war -- and, in Hong Kong,...
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Look inside Apple's massive new store in China
Apple Stores are always painstakingly designed, but the Cupertino company's latest efforts in China take it to a whole new level. Cult Of Mac has published photos of Apple's latest store, located in...
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Why China should unpeg the renminbi from the US dollar
The Chinese renminbi (RMB) depreciated 2.5 percent against the US dollar in 2014. This was the first depreciation since 2005, when Beijing timidly started loosening its tight dollar peg. Recently, the...
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Hong Kong's 'wolf' leader just told everybody to behave more like 'sheep'
In a Chinese New Year's message, Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has encouraged citizens to embrace the Year of the Sheep.Namely, this includes becoming more like sheep: mild, gentle,...
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China is projecting serious power in the South China Sea
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's creation of artificial islands in the South China Sea is happening so fast that Beijing will be able to extend the range of its navy, air force, coastguard and fishing...
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The emerging-market car boom has only begun
Given their low rates of car ownership, emerging economies are plum targets for automakers searching for the growth markets of tomorrow. Although the cyclical momentum driving car purchases has slowed...
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Turkey is planning a $3.4 billion deal missile defense deal with China and...
Turkey's defense minister said on Thursday the country does not plan to integrate a new missile defense system with NATO infrastructure and officials said a $3.4 billion deal with China was still under...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg's Mandarin seems to have vastly improved (FB)
Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year by recording a special message to his followers in Mandarin Chinese. "Happy Lunar New Year 春节快乐!" he posted. "This is a moment of renewal and...
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China's top cotton producer is resisting the government's reforms
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top cotton producer, a quasi-military body formed 60 years ago to settle the far west Xinjiang area, is resisting a government policy that could force it to cut output in an...
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The founder of the hottest tech company in China just raised $160 million to...
Shunwei Capital, co-founded by Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s chief executive Jun Lei, has raised 1 billion yuan ($160 million) in its first local currency round, China Money Network reported,...
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The first Chinese-built luxury car is here, and it's a Volvo
When Ford sold Volvo to China's Geely Automotive five years ago, most onlookers expected there'd be a day when Chinese-built Volvos made their way to American showrooms.Well, that day is coming sooner...
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Meet the former Harvard football player who wants to make high school sports...
The growing presence of sports in China may hold more than just entertainment value.Notable tycoons like Jack Ma of Alibaba and China's richest man, Wang Jianlin of Dalian Wanda Group, have invested...
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18 luxury gifts for the Chinese New Year
The Lunar New Year travel and shopping season is in full swing, and that means Chinese tourists are flocking abroad to take advantage of luxury prices much lower than what they can find at home.As a...
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38 places everyone should visit in China
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18 Chinese expressions with bizarre literal translations
There are more than 80,000 Chinese characters in existence, though a non-native speaker can get by with 1,000 of the most commonly used ones.To make matters more complicated, the characters that make...
View ArticleThese are the incredible cars driven by ultra-rich Chinese kids in LA
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26 photos of Hong Kong's chaotic Kowloon Walled City, once the most crowded...
Slightly north of Hong Kong Island there once stood one of the most densely populated places on earth.From the 1950s until 1994, over 33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City, a massive...
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