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Sylvain Kalache
onto News-from-China October 9, 2012 11:36 PM
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TED Talks In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world.
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After yet another volatile day on the Chinese stock market yesterday,
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Jack Ma doesn't care about money. Why? Because he misses the days when he could barely afford a bicycle.
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Thai tourism industry prepare yourselves because the much anticipated railway linking China and Thailand might actually happen pretty soon.
Sylvain Kalache's insight:
More Chinese tourists for Thailand!
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A new trend has hit the streets of Beijing in the form of a small plastic sprout that appears to be growing from the top of wearers' heads.
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Monks at the Xingjue Temple, Shanghai asked to pay for 16 water heaters with 0.1 yuan coins in a mall recently.
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This really weird thing happened to me. Then it got even weirder. Then it turned insane. Do I have a story for you. [This is the epic continuation of "How I Became a Minor Celebrity in China.&...
Sylvain Kalache's insight:
That's fucking insane. Love that story!
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A blind man named Jia Haixia and his friend, a double amputee with no arms named Jia Wenqi, have spent more than 10 years replanting trees to revive the once-barren environment around Yeli Village in northeastern China.
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Bitcoin mining is not a pretty business. It requires lots of specialized servers that are essentially unusable for normal computing and lots of cooling. But..
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The 21 million inhabitants of China’s capital appear to be engaged in a city-wide rehearsal for life on an inhospitable planet. Oliver Wainwright reports from Beijing
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A video of a man drinking large amount of Baijiu, a Chinese hard alcohol, led to a Baijiu challenge online where people competed to see who can drink the most.
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Woman who tries to sell daughter to save husband receives ￥1.27 million, donates ￥600,000 to charity
A woman, who tried to sell her baby daughter on the
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A silver Porsche 918 Spyder worth 15 million RMB crashed into
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Some teachers have resorted to extreme means to punish students when
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In yet another incredible example of how much China can get
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Yuntai Mountain's much-vaunted 2-week-old glass bridge in Henan province has been closed for repairs after cracks were discovered in one of the glass panels, causing a freak-out among tourists.
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In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl’s grandmother shouted, “Stop! You’ve hit a child!” the BMW’s driver paused, then switched into reverse and backed up over the girl. The...
Sylvain Kalache's insight:
I've always been told that in China, cars have priority on pedestrians but I was not aware of that. It is just nuts.
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A team of 10 doctors successfully carried out an operation separating
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A father-and-son team in southeastern China have started creating enormous recycled Transformer robot sculptures from scrap car parts that they've been selling for more than 1 million yuan (more than $160,000) a year.
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The ancient tradition of foot binding now sounds like a barbaric practice. It involved breaking the bones of young girls’ feet and wrapping them tightly to inhibit growth - and all so they could fit into shoes 10cm long. But it’s important to...
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A 94-year-old former English teacher from Hunan province is no longer
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A young woman with brain paralysis in Yuncheng, Shanxi province has
Patricia Alvarez's curator insight,
January 18, 2015 11:37 AM
A brave girl who deserves much praise from all of us. Very inspiring!
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Celebration and revelry turned into tragedy in seconds in the Chinese financial centre Shanghai on New Year's Eve when at least 35 people were killed in a chaotic stampede on the city's picturesque riverfront known as the Bund. ...
Sylvain Kalache's insight:
So ridiculous way to die :(
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Christmas Eve was a night of mayhem in Kunming, with 110,000
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This Chinese entrepreneur seems to be having a good year. His ecommerce startup got a large round of funding, and he just got married.
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