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China's Passport Map Provocation Leads To Extraordinary Measures From Vietnam...
Last week saw a subtle yet undeniable act of provocation by the Chinese government to regional rivals, who issued new passports that featured the disputed "nine-dash" map of Chinese territory.The map,...
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An Incredible Goodbye Note To China Has Every Expat In The Country Talking
In just a few months, the "why-I'm-leaving-China" article has become an embarrassing cliche amongst expats in China. The most notorious was from Mark Kitto, a British businessman who built (and...
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Chinese Insurance Giant Is Threatening To Sue The New York Times
China's second-biggest insurance company has threatened to take legal action against the New York Times for reports that Premier Wen Jiabao's relatives had accumulated massive wealth, largely through...
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Why China's Plan To Build The World's Tallest Skyscraper In 90 Days Is 'Madness'
Earlier this year, a Chinese construction company announced plans to build a new "world's tallest skyscraper," an 838-meter highrise in Changsha.It also promised to complete the building, called Sky...
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When A Chinese Farmer Refused To Move Out Of His Home, The Government Built A...
When the government decided to build a highway to Wenling, a town in China's Zhejiang province, it offered everyone in the neighborhood compensation to relocate. But farmer Luo Baogen and his wife...
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Chinese Markets Had A Bad Day
There's been a definite sentiment shift in China, and everyone's talking about "green shoots" in the data, but the Shanghai Composite is still a dog.It fell below 2000 again last night. hitting its...
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China's Communist Party Newspaper Gets Duped By Onion Article Calling Kim...
It appears that People's Daily, the big Chinese Communist party newspaper, has fallen for an Onion gag, naming Kim Jong Un the Sexiest Man Alive in 2012 (via Adam Minter)The website has just published...
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Chinese Industrial Profits Surge
Earlier this year we wrote a fair bit about how China was experiencing a profitless growth. But latest data shows that in October profits climbed 20.5 percent year-over-year (YoY), and sales grew 11.1...
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Chinese Model Who Posted Racy Photos Of Herself In A Police Uniform Sentenced...
A young woman who posted photographs of herself wearing a police uniform to Weibo has been jailed for nine months by the Chinese authorities, Malcolm Moore of the Daily Telegraph reports.23-year-old...
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Hong Kong Parking Space Sells For An Insane $387,000
Hong Kong's housing bubble has now boiled over into parking spots.As the city's government has started to set regulations to slow down the housing market, people are making a different type of...
View ArticleWhy Short Seller Carson Block Is Done Exposing Chinese Frauds
Carson Block, the founder of Muddy Waters Research, spoke about his latest short, Singapore-based Olam International, which he compares to Enron, on Bloomberg TV's "Market Makers" with Stephanie Ruhle...
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There's A New Form Of Tebowing, Except It's From China, And It's Militaristic
The world seemed to issue a collective gasp as China successfully landed an aircraft on a boat — a feat America achieved almost exactly 100 years ago.If you're waiting for China's military to take over...
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China's Obsession With Shale Is Going Into Overdrive
The Chinese government has called for ramping up shale hydrocarbon production, according to Caixin (via The Guardian).Officials have set a target of 6.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas to be pumped...
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Wendy Williams' Massive Shoe Bill Allegedly Led To A Kidnapping In China
Wendy Williams, a radio personality who hosts a talk show on BET, allegedly failed to for pay for 12,140 pairs of shoes bearing her logo, the New York Daily news reported Monday.And the shoe factory...
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VPN Shutdown Has Everyone In China Worried
If you're in the United States or Europe, chances are that you use a virtual private network (VPNs) for pretty mundane reasons — an extra element of security, perhaps, or to watch videos online that...
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Chinese Students Protest 'Invasive' Gynecological Exams Needed For Government...
On Monday morning in Wuhan, Hubei Province, over 10 Chinese students protested the inclusion of invasive gynecological exams in the screening process for new civil service applicants, according to...
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Sad Essay From Sixth-Grader Shows The Remarkable Pressure Chinese Students...
China's education system has become notorious for the pressure it puts on students. The college entrance exam, known as the gaokao, has become particularly well-known for its difficulty, with tales of...
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Behind Every Corrupt Chinese Official Is A Woman Who's Not His Wife
As a recent wave of corruption has been denounced in China, we have heard of the important role played by bloggers and a progressively more open press.But there's another segment of society that has...
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There Are More Leaked Sex Tapes Of Chinese Party Bosses To Be Released
Zhu Ruifeng, the self-styled Chinese journalist behind the website jdwsy.com, has given an interview to the BBC's Beijing Bureau and revealed his plans for scandals.Zhu was the journalist who released...
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The Enormous Market For Chinese Medicine Is Booming
According to the consensus, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) will fall in popularity as young people grow up and demand chemical medicines.But Morgan Stanley's Bin Li disagrees."TCM is becoming more...
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