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STUDY: There's A Huge, $1 Trillion Hole In Chinese GDP
Associate Professor Christopher Balding of the HSBC School of Business at Peking University in Shenzhen has just published a paper arguing there are huge flaws in Chinese inflation data, with major...
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How China's Tax Structure Crushes The Poor
In 2012, Chinese households in the top 5% of earners took home 23% of China's total household income. The lowest 5%, on the other hand, netted just 0.1% of the state's total income.Income inequality is...
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The Sex Lives Of Top Chinese Officials
A string of Chinese sex scandals erupted around the time of the country's leadership handover last year. There was the sex tape of "frog/bug-eyed"Lei Zhengfu a party boss in Chongqing's Beibei District...
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Chinese Man Who Spent Six Years Building A 'Mountain Villa' On Apartment Roof...
A medicine mogul who spent six years building his own private mountain peak and luxury villa atop a high-rise apartment block in China's capital has been given 15 days to tear it down.Authorities said...
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Rare Video Appears To Show A Public Execution In China
China doesn't say how many people it executes every year, but groups like Amnesty International estimate that the number may be in the thousands.Even high profile cases, like that of Zeng Chengjie, a...
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How The Emerging Markets Will Unravel As China Unwinds Its Debt
Chinese economic data has been better than expected in July. During the month, industrial production rising 9.7% year over year, exceeding economists' forecasts. But positive July figures have not...
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The Stars May Finally Align For An Apple-China Mobile Deal That Would Push...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The stars may finally be aligning for a long-awaited deal between Apple Inc and China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest mobile carrier, that could help the iPhone maker claw back...
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China Isn't Minting New Millionaires Like It Used To
China's millionaires, a symbol of the country's growing wealth, increased at their slowest rate in five years in 2012 as the economy and stock market stumbled, a survey showed.The number of...
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Why China's Slowdown Won't Evolve Into A Global Economic Disaster
For the better part of 2013, China’s economy has been doing something it hasn’t done for years: cooling off. The country’s 7.5 percent year-over-year GDP increase in the second quarter still puts that...
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China Zoo Under Fire For Disguising Dog As Lion
A Chinese zoo's supposed "African lion" was exposed as a fraud when the dog used as a substitute started barking.The zoo in the People's Park of Luohe, in the central province of Henan, replaced exotic...
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This Is Probably The Closest You Will Ever Get To The Bizarre 'Mountain...
It's a strange and sort of beautiful sight, but the mountain villa built illegally atop a high-rise in Beijing may not be long for this world.The Associated Press reported this week that Zhang Biqin,...
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Every Politician Who Whines About China Undervaluing Its Currency Needs To...
U.S. politicians and other prognosticators like to blame China for manipulating its currency in order to achieve an unfair manufacturing edge against countries like the United States, where living...
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Epic Fat Finger Trade Causes A 2-Minute Heart Attack In The Chinese Stock Market
Investor sentiment in China is already poor, thanks to volatility in the country's domestic stock market.And Friday's trading action did not help.Here's Bloomberg with the recap:China’s stock market...
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China Begins Using Arctic Shipping Route That Could 'Change The Face Of World...
The maiden voyage to Europe by a Chinese merchant ship through the "Northeast Passage" will help the world's biggest exporter speed goods to market and is a symbol of Beijing's strategic ambitions in...
View ArticleGenius Construction Worker Turns Himself Into A Human Pulley To Get Cement Up...
We've never seen anything like this.A construction worker is working with some pretty rudimentary tools. So here's how got cement up this building (via BeijingCream). Clearly safety isn't a primary...
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16 Photos Of Brutal Chinese Paramilitary Training
In addition to an active-duty military numbering more than 2 million, the Chinese have a paramilitary force with almost 4 million members. By comparison, the U.S. military has 1.4 million active-duty...
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Tool-Making Early Humans Occupied China 1.7 Million Years Ago
An extinct species of tool-making humans apparently occupied a vast area in China as early as 1.7 million years ago, researchers say.The human lineage evolved in Africa, with now-extinct species of...
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Chinese Retailers Are Paying People To Make Their Stores Look More Popular
Social recommendation in China is a much older invention than the “Share” button of social networks. But its significance might be also about to change.While strolling down High Street, whenever...
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A Bullish Scenario For Simultaneous Global Growth That Almost Nobody Is...
What if ... everyone is growing at once?Since the financial crisis, the globe has been dealing with a series of rolling calamities or regional weakness.There's the ongoing weak recovery in the U.S.,...
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China's Massive Market Of First-Time Buyers Continues To Drive Home Prices...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's monthly property inflation moderated for a fourth straight month in July, although annual gains were the strongest this year, complicating policymakers' task of trying to...
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