Internet researcher and former China correspondent Rebecca MacKinnon explains how China's government has turned the Internet to its own advantage. Read more ...
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Amazon.com: The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that will Disrupt the World eBook: Shaun Rein: Kindle Store [...] Read more ...
A lot of nothing went on in Shanghai today. Let's see how many words I can generate about a non-news event. Read more ...
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PARIS (Reuters) - A red wine produced in China and backed by the makers of Moet & Chandon champagne may be tickling Chinese consumers' tastebuds in four to five years' time.The so-called Shangri-La wine, [...] Read more ...
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It was a moment in history: the morning 40 years ago Tuesday when Richard Nixon touched down to be greeted by the Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, at the airport in what Westerners in those days still called Peking. Read more ...
Think about electronics, think about Hong Kong. Think about portable radios, think Hong Kong. It's no wonder that social media has penetrated so much of Hong Kong (and other parts of Asia) so quickly. Read more ...
Ultimately, success in both China and the United States will depend on their leaders' interest and fortitude in addressing the opportunity gaps that persist throughout their schools. Read more ...
Europe's first Chinese auto plant opens in Bulgaria BAHOVITSA, Bulgaria — Great Wall Motor became on Tuesday the first Chinese automaker to [...] Read more ...
Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator. There are differences of opinion or beliefs, so you could find yourself at loggerheads with friends or associates. Test the waters to see how serious the situation is. It's actually wiser to step back from any conflict today. You might use what happens to ask yourself where you're really going in [...] Read more ...
Photo by Dianne Caletena. A few links to start off your day:China frets as choice for Hong Kong leader-in-waiting Henry Tang strays off script.Apple defends 'iPad' name in Shanghai courtâ.Mark McDonald of the IHT on this year's Tibetan New Year, Losar.Beijing police order AgustaWestland AW139 medium helicopters.Shanghai eases home [...] Read more ...
德国或复制美国对华光伏产业进行反倾销 [...] Read more ...
Rarely can an election with so few voters have provided so much fun to so many people. A committee of just 1,200 of Hong Kongâs great and (not so) good get to decide who will be the territoryâs next chief executive, its de facto mayor. But that has [...] Read more ...
Europe's debt crisis and slow growth around the world have raised serious questions for China this year. Liu Mingkang, former China Banking Regulatory Commission chairman, sees a number of challenges. Read more ...
Rock star Xie Zheng was inspired by a nightmare to give up meat and dedicate his life to animal protection. Wang Ru reports. Read more ...
Chiny w ostatnich miesiącach zwiększyły skalę zamówień na irańską ropę - poinformowała Międzynarodowa Agencja Energetyczna. Read more ...
Inappropriate posts may be removed by the moderator. Send us your feedback . Stress comes out of the blue today, and verbal disagreements arise out of nothing. Problems with travelling are very likely, and aggression on the roads is in the stars, so take extra care Cappies. Don't rise to any emotional bait that's offered: stay calm and you'll stay [...] Read more ...
With Apple battling for its iPad trademark in China, another famous American product – Jeremy Lin – could soon face similar trouble. A small sporting goods company in Wuxi, a manufacturing hub near Shanghai, has obtained a trademark on the Chinese name of the New York Knicks basketball star. Yu Minjie, owner of Wuxi Risheng Sporting Goods, paid [...] Read more ...
Democracy is the only form of government that can match the hybrid form of political accountability Hong Kong enjoyed as a colony writes Hugo Restall, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia. Read more ...
The scandal involving former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun is bringing to light larger power struggles within the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. And one of the biggest ways it's doing that is through social media. Read more ...
Train maker China CNR said proceeds from its up to $1.13 billion rights issue will go toward upgrading technology in its high-speed trains and other products. Read more ...
From Yahoo! Finance: World stocks were muted Wednesday as hopes of more steps to prop up China's growth were offset by pessimism over Europe's debt crisis.Benchmark oil hovered above $106 per barrel while the dollar rose against [...] Read more ...
American regulators charged two Chinese executives with defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars by secretly stealing and selling the assets of Puda Coal. Read more ...
Video on msnbc.com: China's Vice President Xi Jinping showed he still has a place in his heart for America's heartland. Xi stayed with an American family in Muscatine Iowa in 1985. NBC's Jo Ling Kent reports. [...] Read more ...
The Chinese government, as a matter of national policy, has been increasing minimum wage levels by 15 percent to 25 percent annually for the past three years. How this is manifesting itself is an interesting case study, and we offer some interesting graphics to help visualize the current situation. Read more ...
File this one under ‘people are vain’ and ‘not great publicity for Android.’ [...] Read more ...
Asian Citrus has fought back against suggestions that it produces fewer oranges than it claims as the plantation group became the latest foreign-listed Chinese company to come under public scrutiny. Eric Sung, Asian Citrusâs finance director, said [...] Read more ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A Chinese technology firm sought to halt the sale of Apple Inc's iPads across the affluent city of Shanghai, arguing at a local court hearing on Wednesday that the U.S. firm had infringed [...] Read more ...
Chinese officials who emigrate to escape corruption charges have drawn controversy, but more than one-third of Chinese say they support the idea of officials sending their families abroad, Caixin Online reports. Read more ...
CNPC, state-owned parent of PetroChina Co Ltd , plans to build an industrial park of 200,000 square meters in Dubai’s Free Zone, with production lines for engineering equipment, the newspaper sa [...] Read more ...
The cut to 20.5% for large banks follows a similar cut in December last year after hikes since January 2010 that saw the RRR increasing in 12 increments from 15.5% to 21.5%. That is equal to approximately 6% of China’s GDP in 2010 and 2011 combined. Assuming that a 0.5% change in the RRR equaled US$60 billion throughout, I calculated the cumulati [...] Read more ...
Mark Zuckerberg is pulling off a feat bigger than becoming the world’s richest 20-something: thriving in the cyber age even before “friending” the most populous nation and biggest Internet market. Read more ...
Great Wall Motor becomes the first Chinese carmaker to open an assembly plant in Europe as it aims to lift sales in the region. Read more ...
Japan is close to agreement with Washington on the size of cuts refiners must make in imports of Iranian crude oil to win waivers from US sanctions, two ministers said on Tuesday after a media report the two sides would settle on an 11 percent cut. Read more ...
Helen Wang speaks at Bay Area Council on China's middle class [...] Read more ...
'The Rise or Fall of the American Empire' is an FP debate with Gideon Rachman and Robert Kagan. Link Link Kagan writes of consensus: "the Un [...] Read more ...
