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On the eve of World War II the British government printed millions of posters with the slogan: “Keep calm and carry on”. The posters were never ...
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China By Ezra F. Vogel Admittedly it may be a little cerebral for ...
On May 17 property tycoon Xu Jiayin likely felt flushed with success, as the news flashed around the footballing world that he’d lured Italy’s ...
It was supposed to be called Mickey Mouse Park. But by the time a 160-acre orange orchard had been found its name had changed to Disneyland. It opened ...
In the British Museum there is an oblong gold coin stamped with the image of a lion and a bull. As the museum’s director Neil MacGregor points out, ...
While most buildings in China are not built to last – the vice-minister for construction, Qiu Baoxin, after all declared two years ago that the bulk ...
It is often said that one of the advantages of China’s one-party system is that it gets things done fast. That being so, many Chinese netizens ...
What do Martina Navratilova, Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson all have in common? They’re all hall-of-fame athletes who are also vegetarians (Tyson is the ...
A victory for the protesters? Han Han, a prominent blogger with 5.5 million weibo followers, said the incident showed that the ...
It’s not often you hear about crocodiles getting rescued. Mostly they do the killing, after all. But news emerged this week that police had ...
In a move timed to coincide with the start of the London Olympics, baijiu brand Shui Jing Fang will go on sale in the UK next week. Chinese visitors to ...
At South Florida’s Hotel Victor, spa guests can enjoy a nice bath that’s sprinkled with rose petals and filled with 1,000 bottles of Evian water. ...