Monday, 7 February 2011
There’s nothing inevitable about China’s economic rise
Open any major business publication these days and the chances are you will come across an article about how China is destined to overtake the United States as the world’s dominant economy.
Euro recovering its strength, thanks to Chinese debt support
The euro has defied predictions of its demise by rising almost 8 per cent against the dollar since mid-January, in large part owing to Chinese confidence in the debt-ridden euro zone, analysts say.
China saw more people divorce than marry in 2010
A total of 1.96 million couples applied for divorce last year, and only 1.2 million tied the knot, the Legal Evening News quoted the civil affairs ministry as saying.
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Answering the call of the Wild Wild East
More young Americans and Europeans are heading to Asia for work and executive education
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Kung fu star Jet Li becomes Singaporean citizen
Chinese kung fu superstar Jet Li publicly confirmed on Tuesday that he has become a Singaporean citizen, saying he wants his children to receive a bilingual education in the city-state.
VeryCD pledges to bounce back in wake of IPR violations crackdown
Mainland internet users lost a popular download service for music, TV series and movies when the central government forced VeryCD, a leading mainland peer-to-peer file-sharing internet portal, to overhaul much of its core business.
Download website faces shutdown
Verycd.com, a leading Chinese website offering free movie and music downloads - most deemed unauthorized - on Saturday removed its entire music download links and posted a note saying the move was done “to meet copyright owners’ requests”.
Sentence for hit-and-run death criticised
Scepticism greets six-year jail term for the man who shouted ‘my father is Li Gang’
Inflation makes Beijing more expensive than Hong Kong
Rising prices have made daily necessities in big mainland cities even more costly than in Hong Kong, which consistently rates as one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
New generation aspiring to Taiwan’s leadership
Of all the younger members of prominent political families in Taiwan, Eric Chu Li-luan may have the brightest future.
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