Chinese Crackdown On Pork Black Market Led To Dumping Of Thousands Of Dead Pigs
Earlier this month some 600 dead pigs were discovered in a river near Shanghai. The images were horrifying, but implications were worse. More pigs were discovered every day — the latest count seems to...
View ArticleA Chinese Family Bought A $6.5 Million NYC Apartment For Their 2-Year-Old
Nevermind a silver spoon, one Chinese mother has bought a $6.5 million (£4.3 million) flat in Manhattan for her toddler.Kevin Brown, a senior vice president at Sotheby's International who specialises...
View ArticleNew Study Shows How High Speed Rail Improves The Quality Of Urban Life
Economists studying the effects of implementing high-speed rail systems say that the benefits to people and places where they are built make the technology a winning infrastructure investment.Public...
View ArticleChinese Gamer Has Spent The Past 6 Years In An Internet Cafe
There's a new poster child for China's growing problem with Internet addiction. His name is Li Meng and he has lived at an Internet cafe for six years.The story from Beijing Times, republished by...
View ArticleRussia Is Selling More And More Weapons To Asia
After trying to buy the Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jet since the 1990s, China is finally getting 24 of them along with four submarines from Moscow, Forbes reports.The Russians finally warmed up to the deal...
View ArticleThe Chinese 5th Generation Fighter Has Some Truly Clever Engineering
In order to preserve their stealthiness and keep the RCS (Radar Cross Section) as low as possible, radar-evading planes rely on weapons bay: bombs and missiles to be fired are kept inside the bays...
View ArticleChinese Woman Buys Toddler $6.5M NYC Condo For When She's In College
China's rapidly growing upper class often sends its kids overseas to earn a college degree from one of the prestigious universities of the U.S. or Europe. One mother's move to secure decent...
View ArticleChina's Smear Campaign Against Apple Isn't Working
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese Internet users are crying foul over the perceived unfair treatment doled out to Apple Inc by state-run media which has actively criticized the smartphone maker for the past...
View ArticleHorrifying Video From China Shows Just How Suddenly A Sinkhole Can Appear
A sinkhole suddenly appeared in Shenzhen, China, yesterday, reportedly killing one unlucky security guard who happened to be walking past.While the sinkhole may not be the largest we've seen from China...
View ArticleCrazy Video Shows A Lamppost Smashing Through The Windshield Of A Bus In China
A crazy video making the rounds on the internet today appears to show a lamppost piercing the windshield of a bus in Jiangshan China, missing the driver by inches.According to SkyNews, the driver was...
View ArticleFive Black Swans Dead In China
Five black swans have been found dead in the north-eastern corner of Anhui University’s old campus in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, according to local media reports.Danwei points to this front...
View Article23 Badass Inventions Made By Ordinary Chinese People
It's widely recognized that American inventors such as Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford helped turn the American dream into a reality.Nowadays many inventors are coming from a different...
View ArticleWhy The Beijing Olympics Were A Huge Mistake For China
The 2008 Beijing Olympics were huge for China, a $42 billion chance to put the country on the world stage. Whether that was money well-spent has become a big question in the country.Sun Liping, a...
View ArticleSTEPHEN ROACH: 5 Key Things Will Tell Us If China's Economic Model Is Changing
Despite concerns about a Chinese economic slowdown, Yale professor and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Stephen Roach continues to be optimistic on the Asian giant.During a debate with Jim...
View ArticleChina Is Getting Slammed — Banks And Property Developers Are Tanking
It's a risk off night.US futures are lower as is the Aussie dollar.The big weight: China, which is getting taken down amid a barrage of reports about new regulations in the real estate and financial...
View ArticleThe Only 3 Indicators Of Chinese Monetary Policy That You Need To Watch (FXI,...
Rising inflation, higher property prices, and policymakers' focus on growth has raised a few questions about Chinese monetary tightening. But there has been much confusion about what metrics to track....
View ArticleChina Doesn't Want Anyone To See This Picture Of The New President's Wife...
Peng Liyuan, wife to China's new president Xi Jinping, has the makings of a media darling.Thanks to her fashion sense and a glamorous background in music, she's earned favorable comparison to Michele...
View ArticleEcuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies
Ecuador is planning to auction off three million of the country's 8.1 million hectares of pristine Amazonian rainforest to Chinese oil companies, Jonathan Kaiman of The Guardian reports.The report...
View ArticleEverything You Need To Know About China's Crackdown On $2.1 Trillion Of...
The Chinese stock market took a hit Thursday after its banking regulator issued new regulations to tighten control over banks' wealth management products (WMPs). WMPs are essentially a pool of...
View ArticleChina Offers Businesses Big Opportunities, Including The Chance To Have Your...
International businesses have flocked to China for years to try and grab a slice of the nation’s economic growth. That is why publishers never stop producing upbeat books such as this one, or this one,...
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