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American presidents past, present and (perhaps) even future have all been drawn into the divisive China debate in the last month. This week saw ...
Thierry Gillier, the founder of the fashion house Zadig & Voltaire, has a rather unconventional way of promoting his new boutique hotel in Paris. ...
Fort Worth avoided the worst of the US housing bubble. Prices went down a little after the financial crisis broke but they had never got completely out ...
When Orville Wright first took to the air in 1903, his inaugural flight travelled a triumphant 120 feet. On that December morning, as the aviation ...
When Yang Yuanqing’s bonus was $3 million greater this year than last, he didn’t splurge the difference on a villa in Italy or a cellar full of ...
It was perhaps a sign of his roots: Mo Yan, the farmer’s son turned Nobel literature laureate, was soon announcing plans to invest his Nobel prize ...
Almost 1,500 every hour – that’s how many abortions are being performed in China, or over 13 million a year. It’s the highest figure in the world ...
"We don’t want to sit around in our hotel room ordering American room service,” Erik Spoelstra, coach of the Miami Heat basketball team, told media ...
Taichi is an ancient martial art that is characterised by slow, flowing movement. And it’s suddenly very much in vogue as a source of inspiration for ...
Famed wildlife filmmaker David Attenborough would wince at some of the goings-on at Chinese zoos (in WiC166 we described an ‘animal Olympics’ in ...
The Canton Fair has always been viewed as a good gauge of China’s economic health. But as with the broader economy itself, this year the picture ...
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s classic satire on British journalism, features a fictional newspaper called The Beast. Its proprietor is the ...
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