China's Local Debt Pileup Raising Risk of Hard Landing

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‘Big-mouth’ Sun got credit for others’ toil

Once-close friends and allies either fell out with Sun Yat-sen or ended their lives in poverty after his death

Sun over Hawaii

When China's founding father Sun Yat-sen first saw Hawaii, he was a young teenager going to join his brother. Later, the islands' Chinese community would be the first overseas Chinese group to support his budding revolution. On the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution, Hu Yongqi and Peng Yining report from Honolulu.

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China grapples with revolutionary past, 100 years on

When the army of the Qing Dynasty turned its guns on the state on October 10 1911, it signalled the end of 2,000 years of imperial rule in China and the promise of a democratic republican government.

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Why China doesn't have its own Steve Jobs

As China joins the rest of the world to discuss the legacy Steve Jobs leaves behind, many Chinese wonder why China doesn’t have Schumpeterian-style entrepreneurs, its own Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg?

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因为爱情 - 王菲, 陈奕迅

Rioting in model village attests to graft woes

Last month’s clash between villagers and police in Wukan over alleged secret land sales and corruption underscores public’s growing dissent

Time for China to reform economy

Once again, gloomy forecasts for the Chinese economy are making the rounds amid ongoing financial turbulence in much of the world.

Brakes on property boom impact borrowing costs

Local authority debts also a concern as trends point towards deepening of mainland economic slowdown

Wenzhou takes action to avert loans 'time bomb'

Chinese city sets limit on non-bank lenders' rates; takes steps to halt flight of troubled businessmen

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Zhejiang employees demand pay after bankrupt boss flees

Among the protestors bringing traffic to a standstill in Wenzhou were previous employees as well as creditors who had loaned money to Zhejiang Center Group.

Subprime crisis sweeps Wenzhou as bankrupt bosses flee

The east China city of Wenzhou is battling its own subprime crisis after seven local business owners fled recently, leaving thousands of employees in a state of shock and enormous unpaid loans in hundreds of millions of yuan.

Hidden hazards in China’s role as potential saviour

Flush with trillions of dollars in cash, possible Beijing bailout of a battered Europe carries great risks

Tankers outstrip crude orders

Shipbrokers face surplus when new vessels launch and those relying on mainland demand will need to rethink strategy

Pilot property tax likely to go nationwide

A pilot programme to levy property taxes, the first of its kind in China, is helping cool price rises in Chongqing and will eventually be extended to the rest of the country, the mayor of the country’s biggest municipality told reporters.

Brakes on property boom impact borrowing costs

Local authority debts also a concern as trends point towards deepening of mainland economic slowdown

Hong Kong agents end flat-buying tours from mainland

Brokers halt ‘golden week’ visits as buying interest dives amid lending curbs and economic gloom

Blunt talk from China ex-premier stirs reform pot

Crumbling flood dykes in China decried as "tofu dregs" built by "parasites". Erring bankers lashed as "half-wits" and crime "accomplices". Special hotels for Communist Party elite dismissed as wasteful piles of "golden splendour".

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Semen Proven to Increase Life Expectancy

Women who make regular contact with semen live longer and age less than women who do not, scientists have discovered.

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