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Chinese Student Who Carried Bricks To Earn Money To Buy Apple Gadgets Says It...
One reason Apple is losing market share in emerging markets like China and India is that Apple's devices cost a fortune relative to the average incomes in the country.This is why Wall Street is hoping...
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JIM O'NEILL: I Suspect China Is Growing More Slowly Than Everyone Thinks
In his latest letter, Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill ponders China."It was yet another pretty miserable week for owners of China A shares, especially Thursday, when the regulatory authorities announced a...
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A Closer Look At The Chinese 'Ghost Mall' Seen On '60 Minutes' Reveals A...
Last month "60 Minutes" featured a segment on the hot new Chinese phenomenon— "ghost cities".These ghost cities — massive new construction projects that sit forlorn and empty after completion — have...
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Here's A Chinese Toddler Smoking A Cigarette
Expat Shanghai blogger Hart Hagerty was sitting in Fuxing Park the other day when she saw something shocking:"My jaw dropped when his pajama-clad mother handed the tot a cigarette… then lit it for him...
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A New Start-Up Is Giving Third-World Artisans A Way To Connect With Shoppers
If you've ever wanted to impress your clients with a hand-carved business card holder from Uzbekistan or sport a pair of Mexican guitar earrings to your next concert, a new website has the...
View ArticleMap Shows The Spread Of Deadly New Bird Flu Strain Terrifying Everyone In China
In China, people are dying from bird flu. Worryingly, it's not the H5N1 bird flu that we'd heard of before — it's a new strain, H7N9, that hasn't infected humans before.So far at least four people have...
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A Horrible Sign Of China's High Land Prices: Government-Sponsored Burials At Sea
Land prices in China have reached such heights that some cities are using financial incentives to encourage families to bury their loved ones at sea, William Wan of The Washington Post reports.Wan...
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A Chinese Banking Regulator Could Be Behind The Trainwreck In Commodities...
Last week, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) announced a crackdown on wealth management products (WMPs).In a note today, David Lutz of Stifel Nicolaus writes that the selloff in...
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There Is A Worrying Sign That The New Bird Flu May Spread Between Humans
A person who had been in contact with a patient that died of H7N9 has been quarantined with flu symptoms, Xinhua reports.The person had close contact with one of the five patients that have died from...
View ArticleChinese Airline Stocks Are Getting Massacred On Bird Flu Fears
Fears are growing that Avian Flu (bird flu) could spread in China.As such, Chinese airline stocks are getting massacred.Holy airline stocks! Chinese airlines are tanking in HK today. Bird flu fears?...
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Shanghai Authorities Kill More Than 20,000 Birds
We mentioned earlier that rising bird flu fears caused the Hong Kong market to tank (especially Hong Kong airlines) last night.Via Shanghai Daily, here's a sample of what authorities are doing to stem...
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North Korea's Only Friend Is Losing Patience
Officially, China is North Korea’s biggest ally and trading partner. But behind the scenes, Beijing may be getting uneasy with its neighbor’s bellicose baiting of the US.North Korea is possibly...
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North Korea Tells Russia To Consider Evacuating Pyongyang Embassy Staff
North Korea has asked Russia to consider evacuating staff from its embassy in Pyongyang amid increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula, a spokesman for the Russian embassy toldReuters.The North Korean...
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Lessons From SARS: How The New Bird Flu Could Hit The Chinese Economy
A new form of bird flu, H7N9 avian influenza, has been spreading across China. Four have died in Shanghai. Bank of America's Ting Lu writes that if the new bird flu worsens his Q2 GDP forecast would be...
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There's An Obvious Fix To China's Pollution Disaster
Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English.BEIJING - Recently the haze that lies over much of China's eastern region,...
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Gritty Images From China's Muddy Rare Earth Mines
China accounts for 97 percent of global rare earth production and is said to have 87 percent of the world's rare earth deposits.But in an attempt to curb pollution and protect its resources, the...
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Rising Middle Class Fuels Hotel Boom In China
If there's one U.S. industry that's found a home in China, it's the lodging business.Building ramped up leading to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Shanghai World Expo, one-time incentives for growth...
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550 Pounds Of Dead Fish Found In Shanghai River, Weeks After Pigs Fiasco
Shanghai's rivers are in hot water for the second time this year after hundreds of kilos of dead fish were found rotting in one of the mega-city's waterways.Just weeks after over 16,000 putrefying pigs...
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China Battles Bird Flu With Spray And Mass Slaughters [PHOTOS]
A seventh person died in on Sunday from a new strain of deadly bird flu, the H7N9 virus, that has infected at least 24 people in eastern China. That means about thirty percent of those with severe...
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Chinese Consumer Prices Rise 2.1%, Missing Expectations
Chinese consumer prices climbed 2.1 percent in March, missing expectations for a 2.5 percent rise. This compares with a 3.2 percent rise in February, to a 10-month high.Meanwhile, producer prices fell...
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