Published on May,23 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Yu Darvish's smooth start with the Texas Rangers has rekindled Japan's love for Major League Baseball (MLB), but the sport is casting longing glances at the biggest potential market of all -- China.The tall, handsome ...
Published on May,20 2012 - by Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's premier called for additional efforts to support growth on Sunday, signaling Beijing's willingness to take action after a recent series of economic indicators suggested that the world's second ...
Published on May,20 2012 - by Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thirty of China's biggest state-owned businesses have signed contracts worth about 350 billion yuan ($55.3 billion) with the southwestern municipality Chongqing, Chinese media reported on Sunday, in a ...
Published on May,20 2012 - by Agence France Presse
Newly-inaugurated President Vladimir Putin has set hugely ambitious targets to catapult the Russian economy into the modern era but their realism remains in doubt despite a benign short-term outlook.Russia is looking ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
"Song of Silence" is a plaintive ballad about a hearing-impaired teenager trying to find her place in a fractured family. First-time helmer Chen Zhuo demonstrates tact and perceptiveness when exploring his protag's ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Three retired Chinese Communist Party officials issued a call on Friday for leaders to disclose their family wealth before a looming succession, warning that a scandal over the fallen politician Bo ...
Published on May,17 2012 - by Forbes
Boring as it sounds, ?fiscal austerity? has been a hot topic of debate among pundits and political economists in recent weeks, and I for one think that?s terrific. This is an important debate, well worth having. First, ...
Published on May,17 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
BEIJING _ The country's most famous murder suspect may have laid bare divisions in Chinese society, but friends and foes alike are united in their demand that her trial be a test case for justice in a system notorious ...
Published on May,17 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Everyday Chinese cooking is the art of turning the most humble ingredients into culinary gold, writes Fuchsia Dunlop in her new book Every Grain of Rice. The Chinese know, perhaps better than anyone else, how to eat. I ...
Published on May,16 2012 - by The Daily Telegraph
Arnold Wesker tells Matthew Sweet that his drama 'The Journalists’ was politically censored . 'The day of the newspaper mogul is over… how can you take a moral position if you start invading people’s privacy?” The ...