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A young girl in a purple dress and hat, both seemingly cribbed from the set of a budget Alice in Wonderland production, stumbles past a Beijing meeting room in skyscraper heels.
At 1815ET, after trading in a very narrow $1 range for hours, Bitcoin suddenly exploded $17 higher on very heavy volume. Normally this wouldn't warrant an explicit mention, but this time... something odd happened in Chinese currency markets...
The Chinese government has once again blocked its citizens from accessing Wikipedia, the world's largest free online encyclopedia.
Type 901 takes shape
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China's campaign of island building in the South China Sea might soon quadruple the number of airstrips available to the People's Liberation Army in the highly contested and strategically vital region.
More general signs of a crackdown on expression
China is known for many things, but they're perhaps most infamous for their counterfeit items.
Despite ongoing exuberance at auto sales in America (which disappointed) - as crashing credit standards enable every Tom, Dick, and Muppet to buy too much 'depreciating asset' for their incomes - there are numerous problems few are talking about for
Three weeks ago, some were surprised to learn that after a blockbuster September, new RMB loans in China fell off a cliff in October, coming in at just CNY514 billion against consensus of CNY800 billion.
The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fear of the public reaction.
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IMF approves China's yuan as reserve currency ...
The roadmap will be subject to review by U.S. authorities, with the aim of lowering transactional costs and helping build stronger trade and business partnerships, they said.
China plans to launch satellites to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions as the country, estimated to be the world's top carbon emitter, steps up its efforts to cut such emissions, official news agency Xinhua said on Monday.
Canyon Lake Ranch was once a playground for Christian day campers, and then was a corporate retreat with water-skiing, barbecues and cowboy shoot-'em-up shows.
President seeks to tighten political control over military Moving from large country to `large and powerful one,' Xi says
China is planning to enter the Europe- and US-dominated world of experimental physics with (wait for it …) a bang.
Bab el-Mandeb is a key chokepoint for global crude and needless to say, just about the last thing Saudi Arabia (or the West for that matter) wanted to see was an Iranian proxy army taking control of one side of the corridor.
When it comes to commodity metals, the dead cat no longer bounces.
"In China, you had 1.3 billion people industrializing -- something on that scale has never been seen before," said Andrew Lapping, deputy chief investment officer at Allan Gray Ltd., a manager of $33 billion of assets in Cape Town.
David Tepper says a yuan devaluation may be coming in China. John Burbank warns that a hard landing there could spark a global recession.
China alone is adding more renewables than the U.S., U.K., and France combined.
team of Chinese students have modified E. coli, Shewanella and B. subtilis bacteria to create a microbial fuel cell. By feeding the bacteria with sugar, the fuel cell can generate up to 80 hours of electrical output.
Dominant Social Theme: Russia? China? Not good investments at this point. They've had their day in the sun.
The one-child policy was implemented in 1979, nominally, to allay social and environmental concerns that would supposedly be caused by "overpopulation." China's population had reached a level just shy of 1 billion. One of the policy's origina
Two of the biggest space movies of recent years, "Gravity" and "The Martian," imagine American astronauts turning to China for help. That scenario, once far-fetched, is increasingly likely these days as China rapidly becomes a leader in space explora
China's yuan is poised to enter the big leagues of global currencies, according to the judgment of the International Monetary Fund.
A huge deposit holding at least 470 tons of gold has been discovered beneath the seabed of the East China Sea.
