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Radio Jamming — Not A Thing Of The Past
AMID all the fevered talk and high-tech details surrounding the “cyber cold war” that China seems to be waging—and perhaps winning—against America and many other nations, there is something...
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In the past few days, a number of sites, including Shanghaiist and Rocket News, have reported on a strange phenomenon — Chinese fraudsters filling walnut shells with rocks and cement and selling them...
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Chinese Luxury Spending Plummets At Home As It Skyrockets Abroad
As always, we take their numbers with a grain of salt, but a new report by the Beijing-based World Luxury Association holds that Chinese consumers spent a relatively spare US$830 million on luxury...
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How Facebook Inadvertently Exposed China's Giant Hacking Ring
The recent Mandiant report fingered China as the culprit behind a concerted effort to hack U.S. companies and infrastructure.Hackers had illegally appropriated billions of bytes, full terrabytes of...
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How China's Renminbi Went From Overpriced Certificates To Major International...
China is the world's second largest economy, yet it exercises tremendous capital control including restrictions on its currency, the renminbi. Chinese officials have previously said that they want to...
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Chinese Man Who Challenged Local Official To Swim In Polluted River Says He...
60-year-old Chen Yuqian, a villager in China's Zhejiang province, was one of several activists to challenge local officials to swim in the area's polluted rivers this month.The movement, a new way to...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Mobile Payments Are Killing The Cash Register
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Mobile...
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The Difference Between The Confusing Onshore And Offshore Renminbi Market
We frequently get questions about the difference between the onshore (CNY) and offshore (CNH) renminbi market.Remember, the offshore renminbi came about as China began trying to internationalize its...
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Asia Officially Has More Billionaires Than North America
Asia has more billionaires than any other continent, a survey by a China-based wealth magazine showed on Thursday, apparently overtaking North America for the first time.There were 1,453 people around...
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US Companies Are Getting Squeezed Hard In China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Profitability and sales are harder to come by in China as U.S. firms face increasing competition from domestic and foreign players, said a U.S. business group survey on Thursday.An...
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Apple And Samsung Are Already Behind In The Race To Sell The Next Billion...
BARCELONA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The next billion people to connect to the internet in developing countries will do so largely via smartphones, prompting a battle that could favour low-price Chinese...
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Chinese Boss Orders Employees To Do His 12-Year-Old Daughter's Homework
A Chinese boss ordered nine employees to do his 12-year-old daughter's homework, a report said, as office tyranny meshed with a parent's desire to see his child score well in the competitive school...
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Smartphone Market Forecast: How Price-Sensitive Global Consumers Will Shape...
Smartphones are quickly becoming the world's dominant computing device — with more than 1 billion currently in use— and the market shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.Worldwide smartphone...
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Americans Are Convinced That China Is The Most Powerful Economy In The World
Even though the U.S. economy is roughly twice the size of the Chinese economy, Americans seem to believe that China is more powerful than the U.S.This is according to a recent survey from Gallup.Twelve...
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We're Moments Away From 2 Significant Chinese Data Points
Chinese manufacturing PMI for February is out at 8 p.m. ET. Analysts polled by Bloomberg are looking for PMI to rise to 50.5, up from 50.4 the previous month.HSBC PMI for February is out at 8:45 p.m....
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REPORT: China Is Planning A Massive Overhaul Of Its Bond Market
China is planning an overhaul of its bond market, according to an exclusive report by Reuters' Nick Edwards and Benjamin Kang Lam.This is part of the Communist Party's attempt to raise money for its 40...
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China Executes Drug Kingpin After Broadcasting Last Moments On TV
One of Asia’s most notorious drug kingpins has reportedly been executed in China for the massacre of 13 Chinese sailors - with his final moments being broadcast live on national television.On Friday...
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China's Government-Run Auction House Is Unstoppable
Editor's note: This is part of GlobalPost's two-part series about China's Poly Group. Read Part 2 about Poly's powerful art auction house.TAIPEI, Taiwan — In Huang Hung-jen’s plush office in old-money...
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660,000 People In China Have Been Living With Almost No Water For Four Years
Some 660,000 people in China's Yunnan, Gansu and Hebei provinces have been impacted by a severe drought, according to China Daily. The drought has affected 18.47 million mu (approx. 3 million acres) of...
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Here's Where The Next Wave Of Smartphone Growth Will Come From
Smartphones are quickly becoming the world's dominant computing device — with more than 1 billion currently in use — and the market shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.Worldwide smartphone...
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