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What Politicians In Macau Are Worried About Right Now
EventMacau's leaders have travelled to Beijing for the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC, China's largely rubber-stamp legislature), and have used the occasion to hold meetings with...
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Russian Satellite Struck By Chinese Space Debris
A small Russian spacecraft in orbit appears to have been struck by Chinese space junk from a 2007 anti-satellite test, likely damaging the Russian craft, possibly severely, SPACE.com has learned.The...
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China's Latest Ethiopian Railway Project Shows Their Growing Global Influence
Camels rather than locomotives lumber over the railway tracks in this remote desert, famously traversed by storied French adventurers Arthur Rimbaud and Henry de Monfreid in the early 20th century.The...
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No One Is Quite Sure Why Over 900 Dead Pigs Were Discovered In A Shanghai River
A report published in China Daily reveals that over 900 dead pigs were found in a river near Shanghai on Saturday afternoon.Perhaps even more alarming, local officials seem at a loss as to what killed...
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All Of The World's Big Stock Markets Are On A Massive Rally — Except For One...
The world is staging a rally on "steroids"as Doug Short puts it, in his latest weekly market update.New highs are being seen all over the place.But as Short notes, one country is MIA: China. Check out...
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Divorce Filings In China Surged Like Crazy This Week
Divorce filings have surged like crazy in China over the past week, according to multiple reports. The reason? A new tax on property sales , which seems to have a loophole that lets people get around...
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The Lengths Chinese Matchmakers Go To Find Love For Their Millionaire Clients...
Dating in China sounds ever-more depressing, with stories about "leftover women" and lonely male "bare branches" becoming all too common-place.The sad demographics that create these stories are...
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Horrific Video Of Thousands Of Dead Pigs Floating In A Shanghai River
This weekend, over 900 pigs were found floating dead in a river near Shanghai. The count is now up to nearly 3,000 pigs. The cause of the event is still not known. Authorities did find a virus in a...
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China's Economy Unexpectedly Slows — And It All Started When Chairman Xi...
The latest data out of China this weekend shows a bit more slowing in the economy than expected.Retail sales over the January-February period grew only 12.3 vs. expectations of 15.0 percent.The...
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Organized Crime Hackers Are The True Threat To American Infrastructure
CHINESE hackers may get all the notoriety, but their cyber-security exploits against American targets are chickenfeed compared with the damage done by organised crime. This past week, a large...
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China Just Announced Major Reductions To Its Bureaucracy That Will Affect Big...
At the National People's Congress, China announced some government restructuring plans.The number of cabinet ministries were cut to 25, the biggest reduction in ministries since 1998, according to...
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Don't Worry About The Bad Data — China's Economic Recovery Is Still On Track
Over the weekend, we saw a string of Chinese data that showed the economy had a slower start to the year than what many economists had expected.First a quick roundup.CPI rose 3.2 percent on the year in...
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Given Our Pathetic Dysfunctional Government, It's Time To Ask Whether China's...
The big political news in America last week was the House vote to avoid a total government shutdown while President Obama broke bread with several GOP Senators (POTUS paid…with his own...
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North Korea's 'Achilles' Heel' May Still Be Under Chinese Protection
Major South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo is reporting that South Korean and U.S. authorities "have found dozens of accounts presumed to belong to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in several banks in...
View ArticleBrad Pitt Looks Really Thoughtful In This Chinese Cadillac Commercial
Cadillac wants to triple its sales in China by 2015, and to help it get to the 100,000 units per year mark, it has enlisted the help of Brad Pitt.In a commercial for the XTS, Pitt drives the large new...
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Watchdog: Syria, China, Iran And Bahrain Spy On Their Citizens Online The Most
Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said Tuesday, urging controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to regimes clamping down on dissent.A...
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THE CHINA SEVEN: The Huge Megatrends That Will Define China's Next Decade
For nearly two decades, we've counted on China to be the perpetual growth machine that would power the world's economy.But as many have observed, that era is slowly coming to an end.Jefferies recently...
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The Billionaire Chinese Blogger Who Wants To Buy America's Most Expensive...
Chinese property tycoon Zhang Xin is making a play for the historic General Motors building in New York, just as she's coming under scrutiny at home and makes at least one brazen call for China to...
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Incredible Images From The Chinese Village That Violently Rebelled Against...
Shangpu, a small village on China's southern coast, became the focus of international attention in the past few days when it's residents rebelled against an apparent land grab.According to the BBC, the...
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A Lamborghini Murcielago Burned To A Crisp In China
The Lamborghini Murcielago is a beautiful car. Even, it turns out, when it's on fire.According to Car News China, which posted the photos and shared them with us, the Lambo may have been involved in an...
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