Santa isn’t doing as much of his Christmas shopping in China as he used to.
An officer in Guangdong said that the province’s Christmas exports is up just 1.7% over last year.
However, exports were up 22% …

A Chinese nutritional health expert reported that there are abt. 60 million Chinese who are obese while 24 million are suffering malnutrition and living in abject poverty.
The culprit in Chinese obesity is too much fat …

What does China NOT have the world’s largest?
A cartoon industry forum was held in Qingdao this past weekend. One of the numbers thrown around was that China has around 500 million readers of animation and …

Major League Baseball is eating its heart out. 
The NBA already has 1.3 million Chinese fans cheering for Yao Ming. Now the MLB is hoping to find as many fans for Can-Hit Tu.
MLB officials said …

A company in Beijing – the Beijing Moon Village Space Technology Co. Ltd – sold property and mineral rights on the moon.
As if that is not stupid enough, 33 people actually paid $1,788 to purchase …

In 1987, mainland China and its renegade island started allowing personnel exchanges.Since then, more than 40 million people from Taiwan have made the cross-strait trip to the mainland. Taiwan’s current population is only 23 million.
The …

Holy toledo!
China banks have 7.6% of the loans they issue come back unpaid. And that figure is down 1.3% from the beginning of the year.
Of course, China’s banks lend money out the gazoo…but, still can …

This is weird.
My wife, (5"0" tall and made in China) and an exchange student (4"11" and made in Japan) who is staying with us were talking about this yesterday.
Girls in China head to Japan to …

Shanghai has built China’s first outdoor testing facilty for fourth generation (4G) mobile phone technology.
4G phones will enable users to:
1. watch high-definition TV
2. browse the internet
3. hold video conferences
4. speak in other languages
4G technology was …

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The NBA’s next Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, has received permission from his club to enter the 2007 NBA draft.
Yi led his team, Guangdong Tigers, to three straight national championships.
The …