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Technology > China Internet Users Likely to Surpass U.S. in 2008
2008-01-19 |
China now has 210 million Internet users, up 53 percent from the period a year ago and is likely to surpass the U.S this year, according to a Chinese survey.
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Technology > Chinese netizens soon world's largest
2008-01-17 |
China had 210 million Internet users at the end of 2007 and its online population is on course to become the world's largest at the beginning of this year.
There was only a gap of 5 million between the Chinese and US Internet populations, according to a survey released on Thursday on the web site of the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC).
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Real Estate > Foreign investment in real estate probed
2008-01-11 |
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce has decided to step up measures which prevent the influx of foreign capital into the real estate market...
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Environment > China launches surprise crackdown on plastic bags
2008-01-08 |
China launched a surprise crackdown on plastic bags on Tuesday, banning production of ultra-thin bags and forbidding its supermarkets and shops from handing out free carriers from June 1.
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People and Politics > The People Who Will Change China
2008-01-07 |
Even some critics of the Chinese regime were happy when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics: some felt patriotic joy, others expected the Games might rally activists, as the Olympics had in Seoul 20 years earlier. Party officials would not dare crack down with the eyes of the world upon them, or so the thinking went. But in the nearly two decades since Tiananmen, activism in China has evolved.
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Business and Economics > The Rise of a Fierce Yet Fragile Superpower
2007-12-31 |
For Americans, 2008 is an important election year. But for much of the world, it is likely to be seen as the year that China moved to center stage, with the Olympics serving as the country's long-awaited coming-out party. The much-heralded advent of China as a global power is no longer a forecast but a reality. On issue after issue, China has become the second most important country on the planet. Consider what's happened already this past year. In 2007 China contributed more to global growth than the United States, the first time another country had done so since at least the 1930s. It also became the world's largest consumer, eclipsing the United States in four of the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities. And a few months ago China surpassed the United States to become the world's leading emitter of CO2. Whether it's trade, global warming, Darfur or North Korea, China has become the new x factor, without which no durable solution is possible.
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Culture and Travel > Mao to Now
2007-12-31 |
China is thousands of years old but has been made anew in the last three decades, and my family with it.
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Business and Economics > A Race We Can All Win
2007-12-31 |
China's economic transformation over the past two decades is a fascinating, but still poorly understood, story. Many American politicians have played to voters' economic insecurities by scapegoating China, suggesting that the Chinese are the source of our problems and a threat to our prosperity. But based on my 35 years of experience in the private sector, and six years running the nation's largest city, I believe that China is not a threat to America, but an opportunity. An incredible opportunity.
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Sports > Olympian Ambitions
2007-12-31 |
For Beijing, a smooth Games will take a lot of things¡ªincluding winning more than anyone else... All Olympic gold shines brilliantly, though not all equally so. Of China's 32 gold medals at the 2004 Athens Games, none was as lustrous as 20-year-old Liu Xiang's in the 110-meter hurdles, the first-ever gold for a Chinese man in Olympic track-and-field competition.
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Business and Economics > A Century With Chinese Characteristics
2007-12-25 |
Are Westerners ready to adjust to the effects of the Chinese renaissance? In other words, is the West prepared for a century with Chinese characteristics, is it ready for the ershiyi shiji? How to coexist with a China growing in economic power and more active in world affairs? David Gosset, Director of the Academia Sinica Europaea, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, and founder of the Euro-China Forum, provides his analysis based on his long-term engagement with this fast-changing nation.
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Business and Economics > Brits get rich in China
2007-05-29 |
Once upon a time there were three businessmen: Vance Miller, a gunslinger if ever I saw one; Peter Williams, who was 70, military and starchy; and Tony Caldeira, who was big in cushions until the bottom fell out. They all decided to try their luck in China.
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Business and Economics > Brits get rich in China (you tube video)
2007-05-29 |
Part one of the 'Brits get rich' in china documentary
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