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The most discussed topic among China’s car drivers last week was where they could buy the cheapest fuel. That was because state-owned oil majors CNPC ...
Advances in the world of computing and coding would happen a lot more slowly were it not for the Free Software Movement started by Richard Stallman in ...
“To enrich your family, there is no need to buy good land: books hold a thousand measures of grain,” advises a Confucian maxim. The sage’s ...
In early September, nine coffee drinkers came together for a blind tasting – hosted by a consumer group in Hangzhou – to judge six different coffee ...
Pork is China’s favourite meat. The country’s 1.4 billion people consumed 56 million tonnes of the stuff last year – equal to the rest of the ...
When Naspers elected to spin off its international internet assets into a new entity earlier this year, it decided to call the company Prosus: a ...
When German robotics firm, Carl Cloos Schweisstechnik, celebrated its centenary this year, the tagline was “pioneers of welding: a story with a ...
When it comes to Geely’s love of all things German the sky has literally no limit. This week Li Shufu’s firm invested in flying-taxi start-up ...
She makes jianbing (Chinese-style pancakes) on a makeshift grill modified from a torn-apart computer. In other videos, she has cooked beef ...
Star power doesn’t always deliver, as the performance of sci-fi film Shanghai Fortress demonstrated (see WiC463). Despite the presence of Lu ...
Female students were greeted by an unusual sight when they arrived at a school in Sansui county in Guizhou province last week. A teacher was waiting ...
The Chinese are increasingly protective of their consumer rights. Just ask Disney, which recently reversed a policy preventing visitors from bringing ...
President Trump tells journalists this week that his re-election makes a trade deal with China likely before next November. Trump promised “the ...
Thirty years ago owning a pet dog or cat was a rarity in China. A ban on pet pooches was only relaxed in 1993, although there are still restrictions on ...
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