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“He was completely shocked when we took him away. He couldn't fathom that the police could so quickly capture him in a crowd of 60,000,” said Li Jin, a police officer in Nanchang, the capital city of Jiangxi province. Li was recalling a ...
American artist Andy Warhol once said: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” On China’s social media fame can be even more fleeting. We first wrote about the short video phenomenon in our Talking Point in ...
Unicorns are supposed to be rare beasts. Mythical, in fact. But according to a study in March by an affiliate of the Ministry of Science and Technology and a Beijing consultancy, there are at least 164 unicorns in China. Of course, these are not ...
At the beginning of the movie iRobot, Will Smith’s character, Detective Spooner is saved by a robot after he crashes into a river and his car sinks into oblivion. But it seems unlikely any of the world’s current crop of robots would be ...
Of China’s 5,000 years of history, the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 476 BC) is certainly one of the most intriguing interludes. The interregnum was marked not only by tactical skirmishes among hundreds of fiefdoms seeking power and ...
One of the most expensive board fights in corporate history broke out last year, when US consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble tried to fend off activist investor Nelson Peltz from joining its board. Between the two camps, almost $60 million ...
Read any Western media article about history’s greatest stock market investors and a roll call of Americans will ensue. Warren Buffett or his mentor, Benjamin Graham, nearly always top the rankings, followed by more recent entrants such as ...
The Yangtze is known for its flash floods, but not for floods of flash. That may change if China’s largest semiconductor manufacturer has its way. Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiary, Yangtze Memory, has begun sampling its first 3D NAND flash ...
Tired of following recommendations about Chinese food made by a French car tyre firm? Meituan-Dianping’s Black Pearl Restaurant Guide could be for you. Last month the Chinese food delivery and group-buying firm published the first of ...
Communism is about sharing. So no wonder that the concept of a ‘sharing economy’ has caught on in China so quickly. In fact Chinese media described 2017 as the booming sector’s “epoch year”. Private equity investors seem more than ...