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Powerful Earthquake In China Kills Over 150, Injures Thousands
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote region in China's Sichuan province on Saturday at 8:02 a.m. in that part of the world. At least 156 people are dead and around 5,500 are injured, Reuters' Ben...
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Rich Chinese Buyers Customize Their Rolls-Royces In Crazy Ways
From built-in fridges to partition walls, Rolls Royce owners in China are investing a sizable sum of cash to soup up the interiors of their ultra-luxury vehicles, the company's CEO Torsten Muller-Otvos...
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Death Toll Of Deadly Quake In China Rises To 179
The Ministry of Civil Affairs put the number of dead at 179 and missing at 24, with almost 11,500 injured, 960 of them seriously.On Saturday night, the Daily Telegraph became the first foreign news...
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China's Disappointing New Growth Figures Aren't The End Of The World
Engineers used to dominate Chinese policymaking. But the Communist Party's highest organ, the seven-member standing committee of the Politburo, now includes three economists, for better or worse,...
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Billionaire Steve Schwarzman Has Donated $100 Million To Start His Own...
Billionaire private equity tycoon Steve Schwarzman has donated $100 million to endow a scholarship program similar to the Rhodes Scholars at Tsinghua University in Beijing, according to a press...
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GRANTHAM: China Has The Money To Become The 'Terror Of Capitalism' Within 30...
GMO's Jeremy Grantham has maintained a gloomy slant on the economy.However, he does see reasons to be optimistic.Last week, The Guardian's Leo Hickman conducted a lengthy interview with Grantham. And...
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Buick Has Revived A Classic Model With A Wild Makeover
Rumors of a plug-in Buick hybrid have been making the rounds for a while now — but this Riviera concept brings it to life. Conceptually.While the look of the Riviera is orders of magnitude too wild for...
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How Hollywood Poured $15.5 Billion Into China's Economy
Hollywood is making the case that the growing popularity of U.S. films in China is a boon to both countries.The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the major studios' top lobbyist, announced Monday that a...
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Chinese Investors Are Reportedly Having Big Money Trouble In North Korea
As many as 100 Chinese businessmen have reportedly holed up in hotels in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, waiting to recover money invested in the country.Some of these businessmen may have even been...
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The 11 Hottest Cars On Display At The Shanghai Auto Show
The 2013 Shanghai Auto Show is now in full swing, and just about every automaker of significance is on the scene to show off its wares.Since 2009, China has been the world's largest car market, and now...
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Top US General To China: We Can Share The Pacific
Top U.S. General Martin Dempsey thinks China and the U.S. can play nice in the Pacific.“The Pacific Ocean is wide enough to accommodate us both,” he said at a joint news conference Monday in Beijing....
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MISS: Chinese Flash PMI Falls To 50.5
The number is out and it's a miss. More to come.For March, Chinese Flash PMI has come out at 50.5.That's a whole point below expectations of 51.5.Generally, fears have been growing that Chinese growth...
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A Chinese Banker Jumped To His Death — Some Think It Was Because Of The Gold...
Last week, 60-year-old banker Wang Shiqiang, who worked for state-owned China Jianyin Investment, jumped to his death from a building in Beijing's financial district, the South China Morning Post...
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Why Chinese Buyers Are Obsessed With Buick
The heyday of Buick on American roads is long gone, but the brand is far from dead. In fact, business is booming — just not in the U.S.The brand is hugely popular in China — the world's largest auto...
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China And The US Have Very Different Stereotypes For The Same Cars
The Shanghai Auto Show is in full swing this week, and automakers from around the world are showing off their latest products.The Chinese auto market is a young one, but it is already the world's...
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Chinese Official Begs For Mercy After Angry Mob Storms Lavish Dinner
When Zhang Aihua, a Chinese government official running an industrial park in Jiangsu Province, held a lavish party for clients last week, he didn't expect quite so many guests to turn up — nor that...
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Hong Kongers Reject Sending Aid To China Quake Victims
HONG KONG — In a striking sign of souring attitudes in Hong Kong toward mainland China, activists have called to reject plans to send $13 million in aid to earthquake-stricken Sichuan province due to...
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A Chinese-Italian Supercar Concept Is The Star Of Shanghai's Auto Show
One of the standouts of last weekend’s 2013 Shanghai Auto Show was a stunning supercar concept from Italian-owned but Shanghai-based design firm Icona.The concept carried the Vulcano name, which is...
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The Rise Of China In 16 Charts
China's rise to global prominence is one of the most compelling narratives of our time. In the last 30 years we have seen the greatest sustained reduction in poverty in human history. Hundreds of...
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A Hospital Employee Broke The H7N9 Bird Flu News Over China's Twitter
The story of the first death from China's new bird flu, dubbed H7N9, was broken by an employee at China's Hospital No. 5, in Shanghai, over China's twitter-like social network Weibo.The employee seemed...
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