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China Accounted For 23 Percent Of Smartphone Shipments Last Quarter
China is once again the largest smartphone market by sales volume.According to Strategy Analytics (via the Financial Times), 38.5 million smartphones were shipped in China last quarter, down slightly...
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China Has Finally Demolished The House It Built A Road Around
Last week we brought you the remarkable story of Luo Baogen, a local man who refused to move from his home in China's Zhejiang province when the local government decided to build a highway over his...
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Another Chinese Leader Mysteriously Disappears
In September there was one key question on every China-watcher's lips — "Where is Xi Jinping?"For two-weeks Xi, the next President of China, was mysteriously absent from public life. Rumors swirled...
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The SEC Is Going After The China Branches Of Big 4 Accounting Firms For...
An interesting salvo in the ongoing hunt into alleged China stock frauds...The SEC has initiated proceedings against the Big 4 accounting firms' China branches for refusing to turn over documents...
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Chinese Cities Have Absolutely Dominated The Past Twenty Years
Chinese cities have been on an absolute economic tear in recent years.The Brookings Institute 's latest report, the Global MetroMonitor Report, tracks the economic growth of metro areas from 2011-2012...
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The 10 Weirdest Cars Made In China
As China settles into its role as the world’s largest car market, domestic car manufacturers are working overtime to find ways to satiate the needs of the country’s increasingly mobile populace.Unlike...
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Rail Traffic Confirms That The World's #2 Biggest Economy Is Starting To...
Many economists and observers are skeptical of the validity of much of China's economic data. Apparently, they are less skeptical of the electricity production and consumption and freight volume....
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn't Get Too Excited About The Recent Uptick In Chinese Data
The big news in the past two weeks has been the slew of economic data suggesting that China has firmly turned the corner on its economic closedown. Growth is up, investment is up, and inflation is...
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Vietnam Accuses Chinese Ships Of Sabotage
Chinese rhetoric over its disputed territories appears to be as fierce as ever, with a new passport map creating new tensions and even reports that China plans to board ships in areas disputed by rival...
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The SEC's Latest Move Could Spell The Demise Of Chinese Companies Getting...
Yesterday, the SEC announced that it had filed charges against the Chinese arms of the "Big Four" accounting firms — the biggest in the world — PricewaterhouseCooper, KPMG, BDO, Deloitte, and Ernst...
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Why One US Hedge Funder Went To China Long, Before Coming Back Home And...
The short story is that Zack Buckley, CIO of Buckley Capital Partners, went to China long a bunch of Chinese companies, and came home to the U.S. shorting the whole lot.The long story, of course, is a...
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Chinese Racial Tensions Flare Over An Overpriced Nut Cake
Chinese netizens are outraged over an incident in Xinjiang that allegedly showed preferential government treatment of ethnic minorities.The incident involved a fight between a villager and ethnic...
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Here's What People Are Saying Was Behind Last Night's Huge Rally In China
The big story of the night came from China, where the perpetually brutalized Shanghai Composite snapped back by nearly 3%.So what's the story? Morgan Stanley's Matthew Holland explained in a short...
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ANOTHER Chinese Official Investigated In New Chongqing Sex Scandal
Chongqing, the Chinese mega-city that has become known for sex, murder and corruption, is facing yet another sex scandal.According to social media monitoring website Weibo Scope, photographs of a local...
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Nike Will Have A Hard Time Winning Its 'Liu Xiang' Trademark Case
I’ve received a couple of questions about the current dispute over the “Liu Xiang” trademark between Nike and a Shanghai clothing company, and although the case is fairly straightforward, here’s the...
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Meanwhile, Apple's Share Of The World's Largest Market Is Cratering (AAPL)
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Apple Inc's rank in China's smartphone market, which is set to become the world's largest this year, fell to No.6 in the third quarter as it faced tough competition from Chinese...
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Why We Should Expect More Chinese Government Sex Scandals In 2013
Today Chinese press reported that Qi Fang, a local police chief in Xinjiang, was being investigated over his affair with two sisters from a dance troupe. He is also alleged to have used police funds to...
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See What It's Like To Take The 190 MPH Bullet Train From Beijing To Shanghai
During a trip to China earlier this year, we had to make our way from Beijing to Shanghai.Always keen to try out new modes of transport, we opted to forego our usual choice of flying and took the...
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China Will Flatten 700 Mountains To Build A City In The Desert
A long, long time ago, a 90-year-old Chinese peasant named Yu Gong decided to move two inconveniently located mountains away from the entrance to his home. Legend has it he struggled terribly, but...
View ArticleCarson Block Explains How His Team Investigates A Company
Famed short-seller Carson Block recently did an interesting video interview with Reuters.He doesn't touch on his latest short, Singapore based commodities trading firm Olam, but he does discuss his...
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