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Richard Neville is known to English historians as the Kingmaker. That’s because in the middle part of the fifteenth century he not only became the ...
China’s netizens are no strangers to their country’s tycoons trading derisory messages on social media. The Xiaomi-LeTV rivalry is a good example. ...
Luckily for high-end restauranteurs in Shanghai, the stock market turmoil seems to have done little to dampen appetites for quality nosh in elegant ...
The Grand Canal is the world’s largest man-made waterway, stretching over 1,000 miles down the east of China, from the capital, Beijing, to its ...
In 1868, Russia launched the Manza War. The conflict was intended to purge the territories Russia had acquired from China of the Chinese people still ...
You know you’ve made it when Harvard Business School asks to write a case study about you. But for Chiara Ferragni, 28, the story started in 2009 ...
The past few years have not been kind to Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC. After creating the world’s first Android smartphone in 2002 the ...
Hong Kong’s free-to-air TV operator TVB is sometimes known locally as “CCTVB”. This is partly a mocking reference to China’s state broadcaster ...
Gift-giving or Song Li 送礼 is a ritual that’s as essential as eating and breathing in China. However, we Chinese normally don’t give gifts just ...
The Pentagon has occasionally turned to Hollywood for a bit of pizzazz. In 2011, for example, the American military struck a sponsorship deal with the ...
Before Deng Xiaoping visited Singapore in November 1978 the Chinese press often referred to the city-state as a “running dog of American ...
A professor at Harbin Medical University has told China Daily that he will soon be in a position to “transplant a human head” via surgery. Ren ...
A film about yellow organisms that evolved at the dawn of time may not sound like a blockbuster concept. But Minions has proven a huge hit, ...
Baidu’s boss Robin Li tells Bloomberg he might delist his search engine firm from the US and relist in China. He doesn’t think American investors ...
Odd things happen on China’s internet. A good example: the disappearance earlier this month of a photo showing America’s ‘First Family’ (in it ...