A Wave Of Chinese Luxury Homes Is Hitting The Market As The Government Cracks...
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Japan And Philippines Try More Creative Diplomacy To Deal With China
Both Japan and the Philippines are attempting to engage China in new ways to settle sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea.The Associated Press reports a Japanese envoy has arrived in China to...
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Tragic Teen Murder Causes Chinese Netizens To Question Oversharing
Chinese netizens are wondering if a murdered 16-year-old endangered herself by sharing too much on Weibo, according to Shanghaiist.Shenzen-resident Lai Zengyutong filled her Weibo with self portraits,...
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Chinese Workers Take Japanese Bosses Hostage To Protest 2-Minute Limit On...
This weekend Shanghai factory workers took 10 of their Japanese bosses hostage at Shinmei Electric Company factory, the Japan Times reports.The South China Morning Post reports that the number of...
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Chinese General Ominously Warns Australia Not To Side With The US 'Tiger'
Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald has published remarkable comments from Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu, a Chinese military officer with the National Defence University.‘America is the global...
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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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China Wants To Wean Itself Off The Dollar, But Risks Destroying Chinese Wealth
Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent for Reuters has written a very interesting article, 'Analysis: China's currency foray augurs geopolitical strains’ where he emphasizes China’s desire to...
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GMO: Here Are 10 Scary Signs Of Fragility In China's Massive Financial System
The Chinese economy is "very credit dependent", warn GMO analysts Edward Chancellor and Mike Monnelly. Not long ago, cities like Wenzhou would see bad debts surge, and small business owners and...
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This Woman Went From Child Soldier To Tech CEO
Ping Fu hasn't had the most traditional path to entrepreneurialism.When Fu was only eight years old, Mao Zedong's Red Guards took her from her home, forcing her to be a child soldier.Fu had to work in...
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Asian Skyscrapers Dominate A New List Of The World's Fastest Elevators
The first commercial passenger elevator was installed by the Otis Elevator Company in 1857 in New York City. It climbed at a then-staggering rate of 40 feet per minute.Today, an Otis elevator in the...
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CHART OF THE DAY: $2.1 Trillion Powder Keg Near The Heart Of The Chinese...
In December, Fitch warned that Wealth Management Products (WMPs) were creating growing risks in the Chinese banking sector.Chinese investors took to the streets to protest that month when the WMPs they...
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Japan Says A 17th-Century Document Proves It Owns The Disputed Islands
The main point of contention over the disputed East China Sea islands consuming a feud between China and Japan is simply who controlled them first.China claims to have controlled the area where the...
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Apple Just Disclosed China Revenues For The First Time Ever (AAPL)
Apple earnings are out, and investors are not loving the numbers.However, lost in all of the noise is the fact that Apple just broke out its revenues in China for the first time ever in its latest...
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CHART: China's Quarterly GDP Growth Since 1998
At 8:45 PM ET, we'll get the HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI, which will give us a sense of how the Chinese economy is doing to start the new year.Last quarter, GDP growth accelerated again. People...
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CHINA'S FLASH PMI RISES TO 24-MONTH HIGH
China's HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI for January is out.The headline number climbed to 51.9, a 24-month high.Economists surveyed by Bloomberg were looking for a reading of 51.7, which is a tad higher...
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Taiwanese Activists And Japanese Coast Guard Have Water Cannon Duel Near...
A boat with Taiwanese activists headed for disputed Japanese-controlled islands turned back Thursday after coastguard vessels from the two sides converged and duelled with water cannon.The boat,...
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BREMMER: The Japan-China Crisis Is The Most Significant Geopolitical Tension...
China and Japan appear to be on the verge of a shooting war over some tiny islands that are the subject of a territorial dispute.Tension between these countries is escalating irrespective of the...
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A segment for Discovery's MythBuster series about a traditional Chinese popcorn maker has suddenly become the subject of scorn amongst Chinese netizens.The segment, first uploaded to YouTube in...
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North Korea Flips Out About Chinese Report That Kim Jong-un Got Plastic Surgery
A report from a Chinese TV channel that suggested North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had undergone plastic surgery may have strained relations between the two countries.Last week Shenzhen TV reported last...
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China Has Been Testing A Two-Child Policy And It Hasn't Been Working
China's population is rapidly aging, causing wages to rise due to labor shortages.Leaders in China recognize that this is a major problem, and many agree that the country's one-child policy is to...
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