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Banking & Finance Internet giants are now using their big data to pick Chinese…

Chinese stocks have traditionally shown little correlation with economic growth. When China boasted the world’s fastest-growing economy between 2010 ...

Media Is Alibaba trying to create the Chinese Bloomberg?

What might China’s answer to Bloomberg look like? There have been no shortage of aspiring contenders. Wind Information has made Michael ...

China and the World South Korean trade pact overshadowed by MERS outbreak

When the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak was at its worst in 2003, 127 countries had imposed some sort of restrictions on travel from ...

Banking & Finance Who is this investment guru?

Chen Shou-hong, a fund manager with Guosen Securities Asset Management, a Shenzhen-based investment firm, didn’t always have the Midas touch. In ...

Cross Strait Taiwan can have Fujian’s water but not a casino

Kinmen, a cluster of tiny Taiwanese islands two kilometres off the coast of mainland China’s Fujian province, has always occupied a unique position ...

Entertainment Clampdown denied, although regulator hints at future action on TV format

The Chinese Communist Party appears to have a problem with reality. Reality TV, that is. Rumours circulated widely this month that the all-powerful ...

Ask Mei Where are all the old buildings?

The Chinese pride themselves on being an ancient civilisation. But you can hardly see any old buildings in their cities. China is all modern ...

Society A new round of efforts to halt the ivory trade

It’s not often that China gets praised by international conservationists. But on May 29 that’s exactly what happened when Zhao Shucong, head of ...

Planet China In a country where 115 boys are born for every 100…

In a country where 115 boys are born for every 100 girls, it might come as no surprise that Chinese men of marriageable age might have to look further ...

Sino-File “The Obama administration’s negative response to China’s proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment…

Former World Bank boss Robert Zoellick tells the Financial Times that the new bank’s purpose – building much-needed Asian infrastructure – is ...

Cartoons Dammed by the data

In a country where amazing statistics are rarely in short supply, Reuters found a corker in China this week. It pointed out that the amount of ...

And Finally Soccer coach gets beaten up by a linesman

Over the years we have recounted some extraordinary episodes from Chinese football. For a long time we thought nothing could match a last-minute ...