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Four of the most famous huabiao in China can be found in Tiananmen Square. The giant marble columns were built in the Ming Dynasty as imperial ...
With a strong black coffee in one hand and an oversized teddy bear in the other, I’m standing in front of 30 Chinese toddlers gazing up at me in ...
The two defining themes in Sino-US relations over the last 12 months – trade war and tech rivalry – have combined in a furious finish to the ...
In October 2010, Motorola Mobility went after Apple, claiming that it had infringed 18 of the company’s patents. Apple quickly returned the favour, ...
“Stability must take precedence over everything.” So said former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping in one of his more famous quotes and it has been a ...
The British were the dominant force in the opium trade during imperial times, but the Americans were pretty decent drug pushers too. By the early 1800s ...
One of the greatest surprises during New York Fashion Week in September was the debut of a hoodie – sold at a pop-up store on Broadway – that ...
A self-made man, Li Hua (Li Wa in Cantonese) has moved into the public eye because of rape allegations against one of his close friends. JD.com’s ...
According to folklore, Chang'e and her husband Houyi were immortals living in Heaven until a row with the Jade Emperor saw them banished to Earth. The ...
“I understand my work will be controversial but I believe families need this technology and I am willing to take the criticism for them.” Thus ...
In our last issue we detailed how China’s tobacco monopoly had announced it was set to hit its target of selling 2.34 trillion cigarettes this year. ...
Michal Kurtyka, president of the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, says that China is taking “a ...
There are 9,999 rooms in Beijing’s Forbidden City but a plan to turn one of them into a Starbucks in 2007 ran into intense opposition. Much of the ...
It’s that time in the calendar when language fans announce the most influential words of the year. For the UK’s Oxford English Dictionary the ...