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BEIJING (Reuters) – China needs to build residential property space that’s roughly equivalent to the land area of Singapore, or 800 million square meters, every … Read more
From urban villages to ghost cities Snapshots of suburban life in Kunming’s urban villages. China Suburbia is a photography project that explores and describes urban … Read more
Find out what’s trending in China. Showing latest trending searches in China: popular topics, rising queries, main categories. This page shows how often a particular … Read more
Beijing’s appointed a new head to its powerful internet regulator. Xu Lin has publicly vowed to maintain the ruling Communist Party’s tight grip over cyberspace.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Chinese government appears to be abiding by its September pledge to stop supporting the hacking of American trade secrets to … Read more
Research monkeys ‘Made in China’ – Hubei Tian Qin Company produces macaques for use in research experiments. Strict management of the 700 monkeys in the … Read more
A history of heavy dependence on burning coal for energy has made China the source of nearly a third of the world’s total carbon dioxide … Read more
Chinese factories are pumping out crystal methamphetamine to eager buyers across the Asia Pacific. As Tara Joseph reports, organized crime rings are making millions of dollars from the trade every year, fueling drugs use across the region.
DeepDream by Google, initially codenamed “Inception” after the Nolan film, is a computer vision program that uses a convolutional neural network to enhance patterns in … Read more
A study into car emissions in the Chinese city of Chengdu – carried out using data from companies including Uber – suggests that current lab testing could be off by up to 6,500 metric tonnes per day.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Software maker Microsoft Corp is selling about 1,500 of its patents to Chinese device maker Xiaomi [XTC.UL], a rare departure for the … Read more
The terrible employment conditions of the stone workers in China. Hui’an, known as the “stone town” in Fujian, is famous in China for the production … Read more
A glass-bottom platform that takes visitors a towering 400 metres above ground opens in China. Yuming Woo reports. At 400 metres above the ground, this … Read more
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Promises of higher salaries and greater freedom at work are luring officials from China’s high-profile drugs watchdog to the companies they had regulated, a blow just as the country looks to tighten oversight and drive innovation.