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Now China's Using Drones To Deliver Packages
Shenzhen-based Chinese delivery company SF Express is in the early stages of putting drones in the skies that can deliver packages to remote areas according to the South China Morning Post.SF Express...
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CHINA WARNS: Striking Syria Is Bad News For The World Economy
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - China warned on Thursday that military intervention in Syria would hurt the world economy and push up oil prices, reinforcing Vladimir Putin's attempts to talk U.S....
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Inside The Filthy Dorms Where Workers Who Make Apple's New iPhone 5C Must...
Chinese workers are forced to work 12-hour days, mostly standing, to assemble Apple's cheap new iPhone, the iPhone 5C, according to a new report from China Labor Watch, the workers' rights watchdog.Go...
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Apple Hits Back At Report Alleging Long Hours And Low Pay In Chinese iPhone...
Apple is not taking that report on working conditions at its iPhone 5C factory, from China Labor Watch, lying down. In a statement to Business Insider, the company says it has audited Jabil Circuit in...
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Chinese Official Who Sparked Anger By Smiling At Fatal Car Crash Smiles As He...
Today Chinese state media reported that Yang Dacai, formerly the head of the Shaanxi provincial work safety administration, had been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of taking...
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Mobile In Brazil, India And China — The 5 Keys To The Massive Growth Wave In...
Smartphone growth is showing signs of exhaustion in heavily penetrated markets like the U.S. and Europe. But not in emerging markets. Many of these are already mobile-first economies where mobile...
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China's Inspirational 'Basketball Girl' Gets New Legs
This is Qian Hongyan, an 18-year-old girl who lives in China. She may seem like your average teenager, but she has a pretty unique backstory.Qian lost both her legs in a car accident in 2000 when she...
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CITI: Expect Peak Coal By 2020
The main premise of our coal-is-the-energy-of-the-future argument is that China will never wean itself off the mother of all fossil fuels. A new report from Citi's Anthony Yuen and Ed Morse challenges...
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CREDIT SUISSE: China's Bleeding Has Stopped, But Surgery Is Needed
In 2007, when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was a regional Communist Party official, he said that the statistics used to calculate China’s GDP data were “man-made” numbers that should be used “for...
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More Evidence That China's Economy Isn't Getting Too Much Worse
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's exports rose more than expected in August, boosted by improving demand for the country's goods in major markets and adding to evidence that the world's second-largest...
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More Good News For China's Economy
The latest data out of China adds to signs that its economy is recovering.Trade growth picked up again in August with exports rising 7.2% on the year in August, up from 5.1% in July and beating...
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22 Stunning Side-By-Side Images That Demonstrate China's Huge Wealth Gap
At 122 billionaires, China has the second-largest concentration of billionaires in the world, according to Forbes. Yet 13% of China's population lives on less than $1.25 a day. China has a high Gini...
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Chinese Consumer Prices Rise 2.6%, In Line With Expectations
Chinese consumer prices climbed 2.6% year-over-year (YoY) in August. This was in line with economists expectations.This compares with a 2.7% YoY rise in July.Meanwhile, producer prices fell 1.6%. This...
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A Bunch Of People In China Might Be Going To Jail For Spreading Rumors Online
Chinese Internet users could face three years in prison for writing defamatory messages that are then re-posted 500 times under regulations announced Monday amid a broader crackdown on "online...
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Apple Is The Only Major Smartphone Manufacturer Without A Low-End Handset...
Apple's total dependence on high-end smartphones makes it stick out like a sore thumb among smartphone companies. Apple's smartphone sales mix consists 98% of high-end devices priced over $300, and...
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It Looks Like China Is Missing Out On The US Recovery
Over the weekend we got Chinese trade data that showed the economy is stabilizing.But we also noted a modest improvement in exports to the U.S. which were up 6.1% on the year, compared with 5.3% in...
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The Plot Thickens
“NO MATTER who it involves, we must investigate to the end. There must be no tolerance.” So Xi Jinping, China’s new leader, told anti-corruption officials in January. In the past few days his campaign...
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If You Post A Rumor To The Internet And It Gets Reposted 500 Times, You Could...
China's war on online gossip and rumors is beginning to gather steam, with people going to jail and generally everything getting a little scary. It also seems a little confusing. When exactly does...
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3 Key Chinese Economic Indicators Just Beat Expectations
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual industrial output rose 10.4 percent in August, beating market expectations, while retail sales rose 13.4 percent, official data showed on Tuesday.Fixed-asset...
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Everyone Who Was So Focused On China's Hard Landing Totally Missed The Big Story
The big story in economic news overnight is that China came out with a fresh round of data that handily beat expectations.This is part of a longer pattern over the past couple months where Chinese data...
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