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Xi Jingping's Weekend Getaway May Have Been China's Trip Of The Decade
Xi Jinping, head of China's Communist Party and set to become president in March, took just made a jaunt down to Shenzhen, a medium-sized city just outside Hong Kong in the southern part of China.It...
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New Article Details Use Of Torture In Bo Xilai's Crooked War On Chongqing Crime
Chongqing, one of China's largest cities and well known as a boomtown, has been in the news a lot this year for all the wrong reasons.Most recently, there's been a string of sex scandals involving...
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Chinese Nobel Laureate Is Getting Heat For Wearing A Western Suit
CHINESE author Mo Yan travelled last week to Sweden to collect the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. The decision to give the award to Mr Mo (whose real name is Guan Moye; his pen name means “Does not...
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Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Foreign Mergers And Acquisitions
This article first appeared in Agenda magazine. Check out the latest issue here.Getting that merger or acquisition done right is a difficult proposition. From choosing the right target to crunching the...
View ArticleSwedish Man On Business-Trip To China Called A Hero After Saving Drowning Woman
On December 6 in Chengdu, the capital of China's Szechuan province, a crowd had gathered around the Jinjiang Bridge where a woman appeared to be drowning.To the pleasure of the crowd, a man took off...
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Inside China's Grueling Toy Factories
China makes more toys than any other country in the world. In fact, a whopping 75 percent of toys come from the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.But China's rise in the world of manufacturing comes...
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Investors Take To The Streets In China As 'Ponzi' Wealth Management Products...
Investors knew something was amiss when on November 26th, the wealth management product (WMP) they had bought from Huaxia Bank that promised 11% returns, simply didn't pay out.A few days later, dozens...
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The Chinese Are Freaking Out About The End Of The World
Depending on whether you believe an ancient Mayan calender or not, December 21 could perhaps be the end of the world.China in particular appears to be taking this seriously, with panic buying of...
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In 30 Years, The Most Populous Regions Of The World Will Also Be The Least...
ExxonMobil's recent report The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 includes a forecast of changing global demographics over the next thirty years based on World Bank Estimates.The section is highlighted...
View ArticleOne Chinese Ghost Town Has Turned Into A Skateboarder's Paradise
The term “ghost town” has various meanings in different parts of the world. Most often, it’s a town that lived and died with a boom-and-bust cycle, or as a result of catastrophe.In China, however,...
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CHINA: Way More Unemployed And Unequal Than Anyone Realizes
According to the Chinese government, unemployment sits at 4.1 percent, and the country's Gini coefficient is a relatively modest 0.44.Two new studies cast doubt on those figures.Gan Li, a professor at...
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The SEC Is Suing A Man Who Allegedly Specialized In Slipping Chinese...
In yet another sign that the SEC is pursuing fraudulent Chinese companies with a vengeance, the agency has filed a lawsuit against Huakang "David" Zhou, a man who allegedly specialized in bypassing...
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Listing A Sketchy Chinese Company In The US Sounds Pretty Easy
Yesterday, the SEC filed a complaint against"David" Zhou for allegedly being a "gatekeeper" for Chinese companies that wanted to bypass disclosure regulations and enter the U.S. market.This is yet...
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China's Betting On Innovation And It Could Change The World
Napoleon once famously said that "when China wakes, it will shake the world." Well, the world is certainly feeling shaken now. As one Chinese newspaper noted following the recent change in leadership,...
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China Is Killing Its Most Important Animals
China is killing its animals. Tigers, pandas, elephants, alligators, and at least eight other keystone species have been pushed to the brink in the past decades amid the country's aggressive city...
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Solar Stocks Are Soaring After China Announces New Subsidies (JASO, LDK,...
China announced it will increase subsidies for solar companies by $1.11 billion (7 billion yuan), according to multiple news outlets.Solar company stocks are surging on the news, including:JA Solar...
View ArticleChina's Leaders Will Be Successful At Reforming The Economy While Keeping...
While the uncertainty wrought by the election process in democratic countries may be largely absent in China, the country’s gradual transition to new leadership and the likely new course for the...
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Amazon Takes A Big Step Toward Finally Launching The Kindle In China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has launched a Kindle store for China, the company said on Thursday, selling Chinese electronic books for the mobile Kindle application, in a move that could soon...
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Hong Kong Magazine Publishes Shocking Tibetan Self-Immolation Cover
iSunAffair, a magazine run by mainland Chinese journalists and published in Hong Kong to evade censorship, has an issue looking at the horrifying trend of self-immolation amongst Tibetan protesters.The...
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Incredible Refrigeration Technology Can Turn Excess Heat Into Cold
The World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, announced the four winning technologies of its first annual Climate Solver China Awards today. The innovations are designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but...
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