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November 22, 2012 1:40 PM
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How a Chinese e-commerce company racked up $3 billion in sales in just one day

How a Chinese e-commerce company racked up $3 billion in sales in just one day | News-from-China | Scoop.it
Editor's Pick When you're looking to scale quickly, it helps to be a high-growth company in a high-growth industry in a high-growth country.
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November 14, 2012 1:07 AM
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'Ring of Life' Lights Up Fushun

'Ring of Life' Lights Up Fushun | News-from-China | Scoop.it

A photo of a unique building in Fushun, northeast China's Liaoning Province . The structure looks like an enormous iron ring and is called "Ring of Life."

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November 4, 2012 1:40 AM
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Chinese man sues wife for being ugly, wins $120,000

Chinese man sues wife for being ugly, wins $120,000 | News-from-China | Scoop.it
A man from northern China divorced and sued his wife earlier this year for being ugly. That’s not a joke....
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October 30, 2012 11:57 PM
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What consequences must a laowai (foreigner) accept if he marries a Chinese woman? | Ministry of Tofu 豆腐部

What consequences must a laowai (foreigner) accept if he marries a Chinese woman? | Ministry of Tofu 豆腐部 | News-from-China | Scoop.it
Tweet Email Tweet EmailThe following is translation of a blog post written by North America Brother Cui, a Chinese stand-up comedian living in the United States who is well-known among the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.
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September 25, 2012 1:21 AM
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Chinese girl, 13, tied to a moped as her family cannot afford medical treatment for her epilepsy

Chinese girl, 13, tied to a moped as her family cannot afford medical treatment for her epilepsy | News-from-China | Scoop.it
Jiang Manqi is tethered to her 60-year-old grandfather's trike every day in Fuzhou, Fujian province, where he scrapes a living recycling rubbish.
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September 4, 2012 9:18 PM
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Chinese Clone Company Will Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 Design

Chinese Clone Company Will Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 Design | News-from-China | Scoop.it

"The clone manufacturer who released an iPhone 5 knock-off last week now says that they will sue Apple if they release the real iPhone 5 in China. Surreal? Hilarious? Pathetic?"

 

Actually I would say smart!

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September 2, 2012 3:00 PM
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Neat and scary: Brain Controls A Quadrotor

To present at Ubicomp 2012, by Pervasive Computing Group at CCNT Lab, Zhejiang University, China...
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September 2, 2012 2:32 PM
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Beijing's haunted houses trace back 100's of years

Beijing's haunted houses trace back 100's of years | News-from-China | Scoop.it

These haunted houses have been standing (and scaring) for hundreds of years, according to Want Daily, our Chinese-language sister newspaper.

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August 27, 2012 10:06 PM
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Romance, Chinese style

After the Chinese society went through roller-coaster changes in the past few years, marriage, this topic of significance, seems to be more than just a matte...
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November 17, 2012 3:34 AM
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China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined by Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books

China: Worse Than You Ever Imagined by Ian Johnson | The New York Review of Books | News-from-China | Scoop.it
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November 4, 2012 10:28 PM
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Flamin' hell! The fire station is on fire!

Flamin' hell! The fire station is on fire! | News-from-China | Scoop.it

A fire station that went up in flames in Lanzhou, Gansu province, became a national laughing stock yesterday after an image of the aftermath of the accident went viral on the Internet.

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November 4, 2012 12:41 AM
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Activists arrested, pigeons and ping-pong balls banned; Beijing enters 18th Party Congress lock down

Activists arrested, pigeons and ping-pong balls banned; Beijing enters 18th Party Congress lock down | News-from-China | Scoop.it

Pigeon owners have also been instructed to keep their birds in their coops during the congress. No word on whether authorities will act to stop Korean-style balloon leaflets (which, obviously, Shanghaiist does not recommend as a nearly untraceable method of spreading one's message into high security areas).

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October 9, 2012 11:36 PM
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The voices of China's workers

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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September 10, 2012 12:39 AM
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Microsoft will hire 1,000 employees in China

Microsoft will hire 1,000 employees in China | News-from-China | Scoop.it

Is the factory to engineering transition starting?

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September 2, 2012 11:02 PM
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Guangzhou’s mayor and party secretary clean the streets… themselves | Nanfang Insider

Guangzhou’s mayor and party secretary clean the streets… themselves | Nanfang Insider | News-from-China | Scoop.it
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September 2, 2012 2:50 PM
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School sham as children aren’t taught ‘super-human’ powers

School sham as children aren’t taught ‘super-human’ powers | News-from-China | Scoop.it
Parents in China were lining up to enrol their children in a pricey summer course that promised to turn them into ‘wonder kids’. The course claimed to teach children how to read a book in 20 seconds, or identify a playing card by touch.
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August 29, 2012 3:45 PM
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Shanzhai Innovation

Interesting deck about innovation in China.

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August 21, 2012 10:52 PM
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China, capital of fashion with the face-kini creation

China, capital of fashion with the face-kini creation | News-from-China | Scoop.it

One way to avoid the dangerous rays of the sun is to stay indoors, another is to apply a healthy layer of sun cream and slap on a wide-brimmed hat.
If you’re in China, however, there is a third option - a 'Face-Kini' complete with a body suit.

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