Chinese Manufacturers Cause A Stir In The Philippines With A Subtle...
There's a new tiff brewing between China and the Philippines, Raissa Robles writes for the South China Morning Post, and it's all to do with globes.Robles writes that a tiny, barely-noticeable line on...
View ArticleBusinessweek's Huge Cover Story On Chinese Hacking Led To Their Own...
In next week's Businessweek cover story, investigative reporters Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley take a deep dive on Chinese hackers, coming up with some fascinating details.It's a big story given the...
View ArticleChina's 'Leftover Women' Are Turning To 'Rent-A-Boyfriend' Services
It's a festive time of year in China, with the Lunar New Year meaning many family celebrations, but what of life for the China's "leftover women", returning home to their family without a man?When even...
View ArticleReal Time Video Shows A 19-Car Pile Up On Chinese Motorway
This CCTV video starts slowly, with one car apparently having some kind of engine trouble and grinding to a halt on a two lane overpass in the city of Wuxi in the Jiangsu province of China.The next few...
View Article5 Unknown Chinese Car Brands You Might Be Driving In 2013
The Chinese didn’t invent the car. That was Karl Friedrich Benz.They didn’t invent the assembly line. That was Ransom Olds.Nor did they play a part in the development of the airbag, ABS or fluffy...
View ArticleRumor Says China Will Move Capital From Beijing In 2016
Chinese netizens are widely discussing a rumor that the Chinese government is planning to move the country's capital in the next few years.Tea Leaf Nation's Rachel Lu traces the rumor to Sina Weibo...
View ArticleWhy China Won't Give Up On 'Little Brother' North Korea
China's "big brother" relationship with North Korea saw an extreme test last week, as North Korean leadership apparently flouted Chinese requests and tested a third nuclear device.If reports in...
View ArticleHow China's Urban Consumers Have Changed Since 1995
When your country gets wealthier, you spend more of your money on things that aren't food.So it's not surprising that Chinese urban consumers now spend 14 percentage points less of their budget on food...
View ArticleIllicit Meth Trade Between China And North Korea Reveals A Lot About Their...
AS NEW year fireworks crackle and boom amid the neon beside the Yalu river, a small boat inches silently across the stretch of water that forms the border with North Korea. A low block of flats is just...
View ArticleChina's Corruption Crackdown Shows Up In Slower New Year's Sales
The Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday is big for retail sales. Extending from February 9 to 15, CNY was big this year, climbing 14.7 percent from last year's holiday."During the week, there were 203m...
View ArticleChina Is Now The World's Top Smartphone And Tablet Market (GOOG, AAPL)
China has overtaken the US as the world's top market for smart devices—tablets and smartphones running Apple's iOS or Google's Android operating system.That's the conclusion of a new report by Flurry...
View ArticleA Chinese Internet Executive With 30 Million Fans Says He's Been Censored
Kai-Fu Lee, a hugely influential Chinese Internet executive, said Sunday that he'd been censored on Sina Weibo and Tencent for a three-day period.Lee, who previously ran Google and Microsoft's...
View ArticleTake A Look At This Amazing Worldwide Map Of Apple's Suppliers (AAPL)
ChinaFile has taken Apple's official list of suppliers, which the company publishes as a gesture towards transparency, and turned it into an interactive map.That lets you see at a glance that while...
View ArticleREPORT: An Overwhelming Number Of The Cyber-Attacks On America Are Coming...
David Sanger, David Barboza, and Nicole Perlroth at the New York Times are out with a huge report tonight on Chinese cyber-attacks on US companies.The Times got their hands on an advanced copy of...
View ArticleChina Has Found A Brutally Simple Way To Steal Corporate Secrets
The Chinese army appears to be conducting cyberhacking and espionage against large U.S. corporations, according to an extensive report from computer security firm Mandiant.The report even identifies...
View ArticleChina Now Has More Tablets And Smartphones Than The US
After becoming the world’s leading manufacturer of goods and largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China can add world’s leading consumer of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) to its trophy case.“By...
View ArticleFormer Google China Boss May Have Been Censored For Mocking State-Run Search...
One of the most prominent names in Chinese technology, Kaifu Lee, announced this weekend that he had been banned from Weibo and Tencentfor a three-day period.Columbia-educated Lee has run both...
View ArticleREPORT: China Tried To Hack The 'Holy Grail' Of America's Energy Infrastructure
We've been following the explosive study first reported by the New York Times linking China's army to hacking activities in the U.S.The Times did some additional reporting, and alleges the People's...
View ArticleReporters Detained For Trying To Film Alleged Nerve Center Of Chinese Hacking
In a bombshell 75-page report on Chinese hacking released last night, security firm Mandiant directly linked acts of cyber espionage to China's military.Chief amongst the many findings of the report...
View ArticleHacking For The Chinese Army Is A Competitive Job With Great Benefits
Mandiant's big report on Chinese hacking offers a fascinating look at one of the most secretive arms of the Chinese military.The hacker military arm falls within China's Signals Intelligence, or...
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