Chinese Tech Firm Rewards Its Employees For Falling In Love
CHENGDU- In China’s own Silicon Valley in Sichuan Province, the Chengdu cloud computing company has decided to reward its employees for falling in love, reports the People’s Daily.The "Love Bonus" was...
View ArticleChina Doesn't Want Anyone To Know About Its 'New Princess'
Xi Jinping, the man scheduled to become President of China next year, is just one of many Chinese elite who has sent his children to an Ivy League School.However, it took until this weekend for a news...
View Article8 Big Ways China's Policies Screw Normal Chinese Citizens
China is said to have 500 riots, collective protests, and strikes a day. According to Minxin Pei, this has quadrupled from a decade ago.Much of this discontent stems from Chinese policies that...
View ArticleChina's Massive Counterfeiting Market May Never Be The Same After Major...
Act fast to get those knock-off bags, because they might not be available for much longer. Chinese and U.S. authorities have collaborated for the first time to shut down a major counterfeiting...
View ArticleChina's Anti-Japan Sentiment Is Doing Serious Damage To Japan's Economy
Every once in a while, China and Japan get into a loud political dispute over a couple of islands in which leads to boycotts of each other's goods."We think that the impact has been worse than previous...
View ArticleThis Chart Proves That Stocks And The Economy Aren't The Same
Say whatever you like about Greece, at least their stock market is performing better than… China’s.The chart below shows the year-to-date return of Greece’s Athex Composite and China’s Shanghai...
View ArticleThe Growth Of China's Smartphone Market Is Absolutely Staggering
China will be 2x the US smart phone market in a year! Only two years ago, China was a laggard with a tiny portion of the US. What happened?Originally, China's market developed more slowly because of...
View ArticleThis Data From China Shows Why Apple Is Now Getting Its Butt Kicked In The...
A few weeks ago came the startling news that Apple has now been reduced to a niche player in the global smartphone market, at least from a "platform" perspective.Android is now running away with the...
View ArticleSocGen: Here's What The World Will Look Like In 2013 And Beyond
As we prepare for the holidays, Societe Generale's Michala Marcussen and her team are out with their latest update on the global economy.Policy uncertainty was a big factor in dragging down growth this...
View ArticleChina Should Be Treading Lightly In The Diaoyu Dispute
The territorial dispute between Japan and China that erupted into a diplomatic firestorm in August is already beginning to do long term damage to both parties.The small islands, known as Diaoyu in...
View ArticleAll Eyes Will Be On China Tonight
Thanksgiving will have to wait.At 8:45 PM tonight, we will get the November HSBCFlashPMI report for China's manufacturing industry.In October, the HSBC PMI climbed to 49.5, an 8-month high.However, any...
View ArticleThere Are One Million Children Living On The Streets In China, And They're...
Last week in Bijie, in the mountainous Guizhou Province, five street children who'd taken refuge from the cold in a large rubbish bin were found dead of suffocation.It has sparked national outrage over...
View ArticleChinese Blogger Who Broke Story About Street Children Who Died In Dumpster...
Li Yuanlong, a former reporter who lives in Guizhou, China, has mysteriously been placed on a state-sponsored "vacation" according to his son, a student currently based in the US."My father told me he...
View ArticleThe World's Tallest Building Is Back On Track To Be Built In 90 Days
The world's tallest building is reportedly back on track to be constructed in just 90 days, despite rumors last month that the Chinese construction company behind the project was behind schedule.A...
View ArticleChinese Party Boss Fired After Sex Tape Circulates Online
Chinese media is full of reports today about Lei Zhengfu, the party boss of Chongqing’s Beibei District, and a sex-tape apparently showing Lei with his 18-year-old mistress that is currently being...
View ArticleChina's New Passport Contains A Subtle Yet Undeniable Insult To Territorial...
Territorial disputes are becoming a worrying factor in 21st century China's geopolitical life, as we saw recently when anti-Japanese sentiment over a string of islands in the East China Sea boiled over...
View ArticleChinese Pollution Is Out Of Control
China is destroying the world.Well, pretty much every country is having a negative impact on the environment, according to the UN's Emissions Gap Report 2012, but China is doing the most damage.A full...
View ArticleChina's Leading Indicators Continue To Improve
With the recent improvement in China’s PMI and now leading indicators, the worries over the Chinese economy might be a bit exacerbated (via Nomura):· Our China leading index picked up further in...
View Article12 Insights From The Always Charming Commodities Guru Jim Rogers
Jim Rogers started on Wall Street back in the 60s and went on to co-found the Quantum Fund with George Soros. Then he packed up and moved to Singapore, essentially shorting the west.Now he's heavily...
View ArticleThe Sex Tape That Brought Down A Communist Party Boss Could Just Be The Tip...
Last week, Chinese Communist Party member Lei Zhengfu was forced out of his role as the boss of Chongqing’s Beibei District after a tape showing him having sex with an 18-year old mistress circulated...
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