Officials confirm first MERS case in China
Two health workers wearing masks are seen in this May 28, 2015 photo in South Korea. [Photo/IC] South Korean whose father has disease is put… Read More »Officials confirm first MERS case in China
Two health workers wearing masks are seen in this May 28, 2015 photo in South Korea. [Photo/IC] South Korean whose father has disease is put… Read More »Officials confirm first MERS case in China
The red spot indicates the Ogasawara islands, south of Tokyo. A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan on Saturday, shaking buildings… Read More »Magnitude 8.5 quake strikes off eastern Japan, no tsunami danger or immediate damage
Beijing‘s lawmakers are planning new regulations to ease the chaos caused in the city by too many vehicles and too few places to park. Strict… Read More »Beijing plans to implement tougher parking regulations next year
Law enforcement officers destroy confiscated tusks and ivory artworks at the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center on Friday. WANG JING/CHINA DAILY The Chinese government… Read More »China destroys 662 kg of illegal ivory
A poster for the movie Tomorrowland [Photo from Internet] After an unexpectedly disappointing $41 million North American box office for Tomorrowlandover the the Memorial Day weekend, it’s reported that the film’s producers are turning toChina to reduce their losses for the $190 million picture. That’s according to a report byAmerican business magazine Forbes. Titled Can China Save Disney’s Tomorrowland’?, the article defines China as a “a sort ofhaven of second chances for films that disappoint in North America and Europe”, and thatChinese audiences often “go against the global tide”. According to statistics published by IMDB, Boxofficemojo.com and Boxoffice.com, films badlyreceived in the US enjoy a high popularity in China. For example, Need for Speed, EscapePlan and Pacific Rim gained a much bigger box office in China than in the US, consisting of33%, 34% and 28%, respectively, of the global selling gross. Meanwhile, foreign pictures such as Bait 3D and The Expendables 3 were warmly welcomedby audiences only in China. Fast economic growth, improved quality of life and people’s preference forinternational bigbudget films makes China a hot destination for Hollywood productions. So, is China really thehedge for Hollywood flops? “Many Chinese audiences are new film viewers and their appreciation of those works are notfully developed. So it is easy sometimes to generate the situation where the film quality andbox office are upside down in the Chinese market, ” said Raymond Zhou, a well-knowncolumnist and movie critic. He said that compared to western audiences, the art of film is stilla relatively new entertainment in China. “The maturity of the Chinese film market is more of less equivalent to the 1980s in otherindustries,” Zhou explained. According to Xinhua Daily Telegraph, China is regulated to import no more than 34 Hollywoodfilms, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the whole production of the major film makingcenter. Therefore, many good films don’t get screened by a Chinese audience, and yet thosethat have, even with ‘flop label’ in the West, do enjoy better production quality than domesticworks.
China Cinda Asset Management Co will auction its 4 billion yuan ($645 million) of bad assets on Alibaba’s flagship online marketplace Taobao. The process is… Read More »Alibaba sets up bad-loans auction site
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, center, leaves Santiago de Chile Airport to return to China as he wraps up a nine-day visit to four Latin American countries,… Read More »Premier Li wraps up Latin America visit
Authorities euthanize nine alpacas imported from Chile after virus discovered, drug dealer sells narcotics to policeman, teachers make the wrong call, and man lands in… Read More »Nine alpacas put to death in Beijing
A kid’s boot produced for Christmas is on display in a Neiliansheng shop in Beijing, Dec 15, 2014. [Photo/CFP] Neiliansheng is a time-honored cloth shoe… Read More »Nine alpacas put to death in Beijing
A kid’s boot produced for Christmas is on display in a Neiliansheng shop in Beijing, Dec 15, 2014. [Photo/CFP] Neiliansheng is a time-honored cloth shoe… Read More »Ancient shoe brand that ‘fast-tracks promotion’