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In the 1987 Paul Verhoeven movie Robocop there is a scene in which the crime fighter tries to arrest a corrupt executive at OCP, the company ...
In 119BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built the Kunming Lake near Xi’an. He did so to increase the local water supply and, more importantly, to ...
Aside from golf, Scotland's most high-profile export to China is whisky. Morrison Bowmore is one of Scotland's most prestigious distilleries and has ...
When a Chinese leader meets a foreign dignitary, it’s usually a fairly stage-managed affair. You know the drill: the obligatory photos in the Great ...
In its journey of almost 6,500 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River takes on many hues. At its source in ...
Back in 1776, Adam Smith highlighted how a tax system needs to be consistent. It was essential, Smith argued, that people knew how much they had to ...
Ouyang Le was upset this summer when she was told that she hadn’t been accepted to study at the Institute of International Relations. That’s ...
In 2005 Didier Drogba brought an end to a bloody civil war in his native Ivory Coast. The footballer intervened just after he’d helped his national ...
What do you think of this as a premise for a brand new TV series? A group of twenty-somethings live in adjacent apartments and spend a lot of time ...
Earlier this year Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Heavy Industries acquired German concrete pump maker Putzmeister. A day after the deal ...
When it comes to getting divorces, Liz Taylor takes some beating. She had seven husbands, after all, and even married one of them twice (actor Richard ...
Next year is the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth. And it’s a date that the city of Xiangtan intends to take full advantage of. According to ...
As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another’s treasure. And it turns out to apply even to China’s famous hairy crabs. The dark-green ...