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Trade fairs often have an outsized impact in China. For instance, eight years ago WiC published a special edition on the Shanghai Expo. That lavish ...
The Sands casino in Macau opened in May 2004. In less than a year its boss Sheldon Adelson recouped his $265 million investment. The gaming mogul took ...
Comedies rarely get short-listed, much less win, the Best Picture award at the Oscars. Similarly, JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel prize for literature, ...
“Disney really shouldn't have come to China,” Wang Jianlin declared in May 2016. At the time, the Wanda boss had just unveiled an ambitious plan ...
The US State Department moved a step closer to selling $330 million worth of new military equipment, mainly aircraft, to Taiwan last month when the ...
The Communist Party of China has a reputation for political pageantry. Its most important gathering is its Party Congress, where it picks its senior ...
Long before ‘Fake News’ became Donald Trump’s favourite bugbear, there were tools in China to curb the spread online of what Beijing deems to be ...
Early last month Donald Trump hosted an unlikely meeting in the Oval Office. Rather unexpectedly, he was on the listening side of of the occasion. In ...
On the morning of October 28 a public bus carrying 15 people plunged off a bridge in Wanzhou, a sub-district of Chongqing, and sank into the Changjiang ...
Breaking up is hard to do, but for a student at Hangzhou University it has proven particularly tough. Rather than recognise it is over, he posted a ...
Ping An founder Peter Ma tells the Financial Times that the financial services conglomerate will keep a domestic focus, despite complaining that ...
China is building eight new airports annually and according to the World Economic Forum that will take its total to 260 by 2020. However, the trickiest ...
It took just three years for China’s privately-funded aerospace sector to develop its first solid fuel rocket, chasing Space X, Elon Musk’s firm, ...