Robots, China and demographics
Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen linked to a new paper by David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson entitled “Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets”. Long story short, it...
View ArticleChina angry over Japan-Taiwan disputed island pact
China on Wednesday said it is seriously concerned about a fishery agreement signed by Japan and Taiwan for fishing in disputed islands in East China Sea. Reported by Zee News 22 minutes ago.
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Market Minute: Yum Brands' China Sales Catch a Case of Bird Flu
Filed under: Microsoft, General Motors, Market News *Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images* KFC falls prey to the bird flu, and the PC may become a dinosaur. Record highs continue to pile up on Wall...
View ArticleAsean, China to meet on maritime code of conduct
Foreign ministers from Asean and China will hold a special meeting to hasten progress on a code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea, Indonesia’s foreign minister said on Thursday. The meeting...
View ArticleSHL China Named "Best Talent Measurement Company in Greater China"
ATLANTA, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SHL, the global leader in talent measurement, today announced it has won the HRoot award for "Best Talent Measurement Company in Greater China 2012-2013". T......
View Article'Django Unchained' China Debut Mysteriously Delayed for 'Technical Reasons'
"Django Unchained" was supposed to introduce Chinese moviegoers to the pop culture mashup world of Quentin Tarantino. But a funny thing happened while the slave revenge western was preparing to make...
View ArticleASEAN, China to meet on maritime code of conduct
Foreign ministers from ASEAN and China will hold a special meeting to hasten progress on a code of conduct in the disputed South China Sea, Indonesia`s foreign minister said on Thursday. Reported by...
View ArticleChina's citizen journalists finding the mouse is mightier than the pen
Chinese cyber-investigators find exposure on social media can protect them from the corrupt officials they seek to uncover Days into his new mandate as Communist party chief and before his ratification...
View ArticleWe May Have Seen The Peak Of Easy Credit Conditions In China
New loans rose by 1.06 trillion yuan in March, compared with 620 billion yuan in February. This was above expectations for an increase of 900 billion yuan. Total social financing (TSF) which includes...
View ArticleYum Brands reports 13% decline in March China sales
Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM), owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut dining chains, reversed earlier losses that were sparked on account of weak monthly sales results from China. Shares of the company were...
View ArticleMore People Have Died From China's New Bird Flu
The impact of the new bird flu infecting China just keeps adding up. On Thursday, April 11, five more confirmed cases of the new bird flu, H7N9, were reported to the World Health Organization. This is...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: China Is No Longer A Low-Cost Producer
China's explosive economic growth has largely been driven by its booming exports. And its exports have been driven by its low cost of production. However, with its working age population shrinking,...
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Will This Tiny Technology Mean the End of China's Manufacturing Dominance?
Filed under: Investing In the 1970s, PARC, a *Xerox * company (formerly the Palo Alto Research Center), helped usher in an era of modern computing, as it built a graphical mouse-based operating system...
View ArticleChina's auto market passes 2m mark in Q1
THE production and sales of vehicles in China in March helped drive the total figures for the first quarter of the year past the 2-million mark for the first time in history, the China Association of...
View ArticleChina's president visits key southern naval base
April 12, 2013 12:16 AM BEIJING (AP) - Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a key naval base on an island province in the disputed South China Sea on Thursday, advertising his close ties to the...
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Key visits 'the Harvard of China'
Davina Lach, a New Zealand student studying at Peking University, has come full circle.War in China last century forced her family to leave China for the safety of Cambodia which is where they stayed...
View ArticleL&L Accepted as Member of the China National Coal Association
SEATTLE, April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- L & L Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: LLEN) ("L&L" or "Company"), a Seattle-based company with profitable coal operations in China, announced today that the China...
View ArticleChina's Bird Flu Response Shows New Openness
SHANGHAI — After a new and lethal strain of bird flu emerged in Shanghai two weeks ago, the government of China's bustling financial capital responded with live updates on a Twitter-like microblog....
View ArticlePeter Bosshard: China's Superbank
Wikimedia Commons Li Liguan lives at the outskirts of Loudi city in Hunan province. A former farmer, he was uprooted from his land to make way for a stadium. Now he tries to benefit from the...
View ArticleKerry Hopes To Reach North Korea Through China
LONDON -- John Kerry had been secretary of state for little more than a week when North Korea tested a nuclear bomb. He gathered top aides together for a morning meeting and asked for ideas, prompting...
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