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Smartphone Shipments In China Approach Triple-Digit Growth, As Domestic...
Smartphone shipments in China jumped an impressive 98% year-over-year, and now account for 38% of global shipments. (They were 29% of global shipments in the same quarter last year.)The rising tide of...
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally Explains Why Chinese Communism Is 'Fantastic'
China has become an area of tremendous potential for companies as the nominally communist country has embraced capitalism. The hybrid result, according to Ford CEO Alan Mulally, is in some ways an...
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How Volkswagen, BMW, And Chrysler Are Navigating China's Tricky Luxury Market
China’s slowing economic growth, government and state-run media criticism, and a growing number of competitors entering the marketplace are just a few obstacles faced by top global automakers...
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Brazil Is Desperately Hoping Those Crazy China Trade Numbers Are True
Brazilians are probably blasting the celebratory samba music after last night's rosy Chinese trade numbers (if you believe in that sort of thing). Some of the country's most important stocks are up on...
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Scientists Want To Tweak The H7N9 Bird Flu Virus To Make It Super Dangerous
Researchers plan to start tweaking the genome of the H7N9 bird flu virus in laboratories, to see what changes might randomly occur in nature that could make the virus more deadly to people.In a letter...
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New Chinese Economic Data Will Force A Lot Of Economists To Crank Up Their...
China just released five key economic data points overnight.Here's a quick run-down:Consumer prices rose 2.7% year over year in July, representing an unchanged inflation rate from June. Economists were...
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REPORT: Chinese Regulators Are Working On A Plan That Could Mean A Bank...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is developing a new trading platform to enable banks to sell off loans to a wider range of investors, in a move that could pave the way for a government bailout of...
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Chinese Drivers Discover The SUV
For the first time ever, sport utility vehicles account for more than 20% of all market share by vehicle type in China."[SUV] market size boomed by 46% [year-over-year] to 240,000 units in July,...
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China's Growth Prospects Continue To Be Murky For 2 Reasons
Earlier today, China released a bunch of fresh economic data, and most of it was encouraging.One of the important highlights was industrial production, which jumped 9.7% year-over-year in July....
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Here's A Complete Round-Up Of China's July Economic Data (FXI, EWH)
Chinese economic data has disappointed markets in recent months and prompted economists to downgrade their GDP forecasts.But July data largely came in better than expected.Here are the key...
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It's So Hot In Shanghai That People Are Camping Out In Air Conditioned Subway...
Almost 400 people have been camping out a Shanghai Metro station, making use of the air conditioning that many don't have at home, Shanghaiist reports, hoping to beat a horrible heatwave that has hit...
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China's Silly New Policy Shows It Can't Handle Its Booming Aviation Market
A new Chinese policy meant to reduce egregious flights delays will likely waste fuel and potentially create a safety risk, and is a sign of how the country is struggling to handle the booming growth of...
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10 Things That Could Go Horribly Wrong In China
The world has watched in awe for three decades as China emerged from obscurity to become the second largest economy in the world.However, an economy that is so large and growing so quickly is...
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Police Bust Up A Human Trafficking Ring Smuggling Chinese Migrants For Up To...
Spanish and French police said they have dismantled a human trafficking ring that smuggled Chinese migrants into Europe and the United States, charging up to 50,000 euros per person.A total of 75...
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Mother Of British Businessman Whose Murder Rocked China's Ruling Class Is...
The mother of a British national whose murder in China upended the country's ruling class has gone public with her demand that her family receive financial compensation for the death.Ann Heywood has...
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India's New Carrier Joins The Big Asian Arms Race
India launched a new indigenous carrier today, marking the steady increase in Asia's burgeoning arms race, reports the Associated Press.The INS Vikrant displaces 40,000 tons of water, has a length of...
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A Big Chinese 'Bad Bank' Plans To Go Public And It Has Experts Scratching...
Cinda Asset Management, one of China's state-owned asset management companies (AMC) created to buy up non-performing loans, is expected to apply to go public in Hong Kong next month. The IPO is...
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China Freaked Out Over Japan's New Flat-Topped 'Destroyer'
Japan's new destroyer, which won't go into full service till 2015, "has raised eyebrows across East Asia," wrote Stefan Soesanto of the South China Morning Post.Japan's Izumo 'helicopter destroyer' is...
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An Eccentric Chinese Professor Spent Years Building This Bizarre Mountaintop...
An eccentric Beijing resident has built a huge house among what looks like a pile of rocks dotted with trees on top of a 26-storey apartment block in the capital, reports said Monday.Neighbours have...
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Expert: Dalai Lama's Website Has Been Hacked And It's Infecting People's...
BOSTON (Reuters) - A prominent computer security firm has warned that the Dalai Lama's Chinese-language website has been compromised with malicious software that is infecting computers of visitors with...
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