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Baskin-Robbins building China's ice cream empire

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:46 AM PST

Baskin-Robbins, the world's largest ice cream parlor, has signed five franchising agreements to step up operations in China, reports the Shanghai-based First Financial Daily. Registered companies ar...

China to use modified rocket for moon landing mission

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:34 AM PST

A rocket expert said Friday that China has developed a modified model of the Long March-3B carrier rocket for an upcoming moon landing mission to be completed by the Chang'e-3 moon orbiter. The orbit...

Can Linker succeed in selling experience to survive?

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:10 AM PST

Can you buy and sell an experience? Denny Liu, founder of China's Linker, believes experience can bring in value and has begun testing a new business model, CBNweekly reports. Linker is defined by Li...

Taiwan aims to lure more big-spending Chinese tourists

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:10 AM PST

Taiwan's Tourism Bureau said Friday that it will focus it efforts on attracting more Chinese tourists, particularly quality tour groups, to Taiwan this year. The bureau said that the type of Chinese ...

Three generations of professional funeral mourners

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 04:10 AM PST

In a traditional Taiwanese funeral, a woman in a white hood and robe can be seen to cry loudly and dramatically, in mourning for the dead. The common reappearance of such a woman is not coincidence or...

67 people succumb to cancer from metal pollution in Jiangxi

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:38 AM PST

A copper mine in east China's city of Dexing, Jiangxi province, has become embroiled in a pollution scandal again, according the Guangzhou-based 21st Century Business Herald. The number of people d...

TSMC confirms talks with Fujitsu, but says no deal yet

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:34 AM PST

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world's largest contract chip maker, is in talks with Japan-based Fujitsu on potential cooperation, but the discussions have not yet yielded any results, the co...

Volkswagen unveils new Beetle in Taiwan

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:34 AM PST

The Taiwan sales agent for German auto manufacturer Volkswagen unveiled a new Beetle Friday and said it has received more than 100 pre-sale orders for the car. The launch of the third-generation Be...

Prison sentences for Taobao vendors stir debate

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:34 AM PST

Netizens are questioning China's high luxury taxes after two people were sentenced to one year in prison with a one-and-a-half year reprieve for smuggling goods from overseas and selling them online. ...

Ex-naval officer in Taiwan jailed for being Chinese spy

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 01:34 AM PST

A retired Taiwanese naval officer was sentenced to three years in prison Friday for leaking classified national security intelligence to China. Chien Ching-kuo, a former ROC Navy lieutenant, was co...

Chinese wunderkind to decipher genetics of intelligence

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:54 AM PST

A 20-year-old Chinese wunderkind has launched a controversial government-funded project aiming to uncover the genetics of intelligence, reports our Chinese-language sister newspaper China Times. Th...

Executives of Hong Kong oil company investigated

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:54 AM PST

Revalations another executive from Hong Kong-listed Pearl Oriental Oil is under investigation has lead to rumors and speculation about the normally low-profile company that is currently involved in se...

Internet giants resort to TV advertising to boost brand popularity

Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:54 AM PST

Many internet companies are attaching greater importance on ads during television programs. This was evident in some advertisements promoting internet showing up during state China Central Television ...

Chinese TV Special on Executions Stirs Debate

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:00 PM PST

A live television show on China's national broadcaster on Friday displayed four foreign drug traffickers, convicted of murder, being led to their executions.

The Learning Virtues

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:00 PM PST

A book on education cultures finds that the Chinese tend to define learning morally while Westerns define it cognitively.

China: German Journalists Say They Were Assaulted for Filming

Posted: 28 Feb 2013 09:00 PM PST

A German television crew filming in a village near Beijing was assaulted by men in four vehicles who tried to run the crew's minivan off the road, said one of the correspondents.

Jackie Chan At Center Of China-Hong Kong Tensions

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:35 PM PST

Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan this week joins China's top political advisory body in a move analysts say highlights Beijing's growing "soft power"...

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China Threatens Japan In Islands Dispute

Posted: 02 Mar 2013 03:07 AM PST

BEIJING -- China has issued another scathing attack on Japan over an islands dispute, just days ahead of the opening of the Chinese national legislatu...

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Actor Jackie Chan caught on camera driving car with military plates

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 11:34 PM PST

Photographs showing actor Jackie Chan using a car with military plates - which carry exemptions from tolls and other fees - have spurred controversy in China, the South China Morning Post said Friday.


Actor Jackie Chan caught on camera driving car with military plates

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 11:34 PM PST

Photographs showing actor Jackie Chan using a car with military plates - which carry exemptions from tolls and other fees - have spurred controversy in China, the South China Morning Post said Friday.


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