Unreal Footage After Beijing Car Crash Creates Rolling Fireball
A car crash involving three vehicles on Linglong Road in Beijing suddenly escalated into a full-on fireball on Monday, eventually destroying four cars and injuring five people, Beijing Cream...
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WHO Says The New Bird Flu Is One Of The Most Lethal Viruses They've Seen
The World Health Organization's (WHO) influenza expert, Keiji Fukuda, said bird flu H7N9 is "one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen" and called the virus "unusually dangerous."Last week...
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CHART OF THE DAY: Chinese Politicians Are Ridiculously Wealthy
China has a major corruption problem."2013 will mark the most vigorous anti-corruption fight by the Chinese leadership in decades," write the analysts at Deutsche Bank.This initiative is expected to be...
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Here's What Happens When You Get Bird Flu
There are still many things we don't know about the H7N9 bird flu that's been infecting people all over China (and even Taiwan).Here's what we know happens when you get infected.First contactFirst, you...
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China's Going To Build Massive 4G Mobile Networks—Snubbing European Companies...
STOCKHOLM/PARIS (Reuters) - Chinese telecom operators will start awarding contracts for super-fast mobile networks this year, kicking off the third wave of a global investment cycle that is reshaping...
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Last Week's Massive Worldwide Stock Market Rally Had Only One Big Loser
The worldwide rally continued last week. Seven of the eight indexes on my watchlist posted big gains. The lone loser was the Shanghai Composite, down three percent (2.97% to be precise). How well did...
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JEREMY GRANTHAM: We Are In A Race To Prevent The Collapse Of Civilization
Jeremy Grantham, the well-known head of investment firm GMO, has become increasingly vocal about his concerns for the fate of the world."Our global economy, reckless in its use of all resources and...
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Hong Kong Scrambles To Stop Bird Flu As 4 Million Mainland Tourists Visit
Some memories die hard. For Hong Kong, the economically devastating 2003 outbreak of SARS is only too fresh in the collective memory. Now, as the H7N9 avian flu virus spreads through China, killing 23...
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3D Printing Is Creating A New Breed Of Chinese Manufacturing Entrepreneurs
ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy making things.Yet the factory, owned by...
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China Slams Its Own CEOs Over Pay
Quartz's Adam Pasick points us to a report from the FT's Simon Rabinovitch on China condemning salaries among its top corporate execs.The thing is, they're not even that high, at least compared with...
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Most Chinese Cities Don't Need And Can't Afford The Subway Systems They're...
NOT many global cities of nearly 9m people lack an underground line, but until the end of last year the eastern city of Hangzhou was one of them.Now city slickers and rural migrants squeeze together...
View ArticleA Growth Slowdown Is Actually Good News For China
NEW HAVEN – At 7.7%, China’s annual GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was slower than many expected.While the data were hardly devastating relative to a consensus forecast of 8.2%, many...
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Trend That Tells Jim O'Neill China Is On The Right Track
Jim O'Neill, the Goldman Sachs economist who coined the BRICs acronym, recently published his final note and gave his last presentation.He discussed at length his long-term forecast for the world...
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Tablets Are Dominating Mobile Commerce
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.Tablets...
View ArticleVideo Of Dance Teacher Slapping And Insulting Young Students Goes Viral In China
A mysterious video that shows a Chinese-speaking dance instructor kicking, slapping and insulting her young students has gone viral on China's best-known video sharing site.The video has been played...
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There's A Huge Global Shortage Of China-Ready Executives
China's economy, and the number of big global businesses with a presence there, has absolutely exploded over the past decade — but the number of executives with local experience and global chops hasn't...
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Why Facebook Is Betting On More News Feed Ads
Social Media Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that collects and delivers the top social media news first thing every morning. You can sign up to receive Social Media Insightshere or...
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The 9 Tallest Skyscrapers That Are Being Built Right Now
One World Trade Center is about to reach the dizzying height of 1,776 feet, when the spire is placed on top of the building today. The addition of the spire will make it the new tallest building in the...
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CHINA'S MANUFACTURING SECTOR DECELERATES
China's National Bureau of Statistics just published its April manufacturing PMI report.The headline number fell to 50.6 from 50.9 in March.Economists were looking for a reading of 50.7.Any reading...
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We Now Know That An Anti-Corruption Drive In China Helped Cause The Crash In...
We now have some data confirming that China's anti-corruption drive (discussed here) is indeed responsible for at least a part of the recent economic weakness. Catering sales for large enterprises...
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