China’s Internet users have amusingly nicknamed residents of Beijing’s Chaoyang district (or acronym BJCYQZ in Chinese pinyin) as the “fifth largest intelligence agency” in the… Read More »Beijing’s Chaoyang district: World’s ‘fifth largest intelligence agency’
The aftershocks from the stock market turmoil are starting to hit the property sector. Some investors are rushing to sell their homes or ditching plans… Read More »Equity turmoil swirls around realty sector
Strategy will provide guideline to expand trade and investment The BRICS group of five major emerging economies vowed to forge a closer economic partnership on… Read More »Leaders agree on partnership blueprint
President Xi Jinping confirmed on Wednesday an invitation for Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to visit China in September and attend the country’s activities commemorating the… Read More »SCO can play major role in Silk Road, Xi says in Russia
GUANGZHOU – Typhoon Linfa made landfall on Thursday in south China’s Guangdong Province, where trains have been suspended, schools closed and thousands of fishing boats… Read More »Typhoon Linfa makes landfall in Guangdong, disrupting normal life
An opinion leader on China’s Twitter-like Weibo was taken to court after joking about the heroic self-sacrifice of a Chinese war martyr. Sun Jie, a… Read More »Making fun of war martyr online lands Internet user in court
BEIJING – The consumer price index, a main gauge of China’s inflation, was up 1.4 percent from one year earlier in June and rose 1.3… Read More »China’s consumer inflation picks up in June
A strategic blueprint for China’s future, the “Four Comprehensives” named by Chinese President Xi Jinping in December, is not only being closely followed by Chinese… Read More »Nigerian Sinologist on China’s ‘Four Comprehensives’
Beach is where affluent Chinese mainland families like to spend their vacations, according to a Visa Affluent Study report released on Wednesday. It said that… Read More »Sun and sand is where the wealthy from Chinese mainland head
NEW HAVEN – A once-vacant city block at the northern edge of Yale University now teems with exotic herbs and vegetables, tended carefully by a… Read More »Chinese families of Yale students grow a garden, tradition