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China
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Will 2016 Be On The Edge For The Global Economy?
As oil prices fall further, China slows and Brazil risks collapse, cracks will be papered over and the…
2015-12-28
Looking For Fresh City Air? Discover Here Where Not To Be.
Outdoor air pollution kills 3.3 million people, mostly in cities, every year. That’s more than HIV, malaria and…
2015-12-03
$14.3 Billion In A Day : Alibaba’s Singles’ Day Stats
“Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. logged a record 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in sales on Singles’ Day, turning…
2015-11-12
A Tour Of China’s Biggest Online Shopping Day, Singles’ Day
We’re only a few days away from the world’s biggest shopping bonanza, when hundreds of millions of people…
2015-11-10
Humanity’s Biggest Ear To The Universe Is Made In … China
“Humanity’s biggest ear to the universe is made in … Where else?” China is building the world’s biggest…
2015-10-13
Driverless Buses, Coming Soon, Also Made In China
Notice anything odd about this bus tooling along a highway in China’s Henan Province? Look again. The dude…
2015-10-08
Saving China’s Shopping Centres, One Smart Mall At A Time
In the past year, nearly half of the world’s new shopping malls were built in China – yet…
2015-09-23
Understand China’s Current Economy In 6 Charts
Has the China bubble finally burst? China’s major stock indexes extended its loss to a fourth straight day,…
2015-08-27
Designing Private Cities, Open to All
The world is building more cities, faster than ever before. China used more cement in the last three…
2015-07-20
How 3D-Printing Cities Can Be The Future
Hailed as a housing solution for slums and a rapid response to disaster-stricken communities, 3D-printed architecture holds a…
2015-06-02
Big Data Could Help Cities On Climate Change
With last year’s U.S.-China Climate Accord came a new focus on municipal sustainability. Yes, power plants and national…
2015-05-28
Declining Walkability Plays Big Role In China’s Obesity Problem
But it’s the middle class, not the poor who may pay the biggest price. In China’s…
2015-05-11
Rushing To Nepal To Help? Read First.
You may want to help victims of the earthquake, but they don’t need unskilled volunteers or aid they…
2015-04-29
NEPAL EARTHQUAKE : WHERE TO DONATE
A list of some of the groups soliciting donations for relief efforts in Nepal: American Jewish World Service: ajws.org…
2015-04-27
In An Already Troubled Nepal, Despair Emerges
Her home and village near the earthquake’s epicenter were destroyed, her grandfather was killed, and no one from…
2015-04-27
Nepal Earthquake Poses Challenge To International Aid Agencies
International aid agencies and governments mobilized on Sunday to respond to the earthquake in Nepal, saying they faced…
2015-04-27
Death Toll Rises Above 3000
At least 3,326 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on…
2015-04-27
The Fallen Historic Landmarks Of Nepal
When the earthquake hit, many of Nepal’s most renowned pagodas in and around Kathmandu crumbled into rubble-covered stumps.…
2015-04-27
Incredible Stress And Challenges For Rescue Heroes
Nepal’s disaster responders in Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake have quickly become unsung heroes. Aid agencies and the United Nations…
2015-04-27
Not Prepared Enough For Realities In Nepal
In a tragic echo of the catastrophic events in Haiti in 2010, a powerful earthquake struck one of…
2015-04-27
Nepal Quake Was A Nightmare Waiting To Happen
Major earthquakes hit Nepal on 75-year cycle, but poverty, crowded populations and poor construction mean death tolls will…
2015-04-27
Suffocating Under The Dome Of China’s Air Pollution
A film criticising Beijing’s pollution record has logged millions of views, and the government now appears to be…
2015-04-22
The Dystopian Lake Filled By The World’s Tech Lust
Hidden in an unknown corner of Inner Mongolia is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for…
2015-04-20
How Is China Transforming Its Cities?
China is showing the rest of the world how to expand and transform its cities. The speed and…
2015-04-08
5 Things To Know About Doing Business In Shenzhen
China is not the centre of the tech world, but with a manufacturing and consumer electronics powerhouse like Shenzhen,…
2015-03-20
Beijing To Add Four More Metro Lines
Officials in Beijing have laid out plans to continue their program of rapid expansion of the Chinese capital’s…
2015-02-19
China’s Pearl River Delta Overtakes Tokyo As World’s Largest Megacity
Several hundred million more people are expected to move to cities in East Asia over the next 20…
2015-02-18
China’s Obsession With Vertical Cities
By the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its…
2015-01-31
City Agriculture, China’s Urban Farms and Gardens
For centuries, the Chinese have referred to the fertile region around Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province in southwestern…
2015-01-29
World’s Biggest Cities Become Even Bigger
The world’s mega-cities are merging to form vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and…
2015-01-28