One city in China has built bollards that spray jaywalkers with water, and tell pedestrians that “Crossing is dangerous.” The system also uses facial recognition technology to capture and shame wayward walkers. Facial recognition technology…
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Beijing 2022 urged to be cost-efficient by Samaranch during latest IOC Project Review visit
Beijing’s preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games have been backed by the chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission Juan Antonio Samaranch following his latest visit to the Chinese capital.…
Exclusive: U.S. sorghum armada U-turns at sea after China tariffs
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum from the United States to China have changed course since Beijing slapped hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports of the grain, trade sources and a Reuters…
In Beijing encounters, a wayward soul stumbles toward self-discovery
I like to watch the beautiful women of Beijing spit on the street. My journey to get to the capital of China was arduous. I got an hour of sleep on the plane. My first…
Beijing Restricts Building Heights in Prime District — Derails RMB 8.6B in Office Projects
The Beijing government has retroactively restricted the height of buildings in a prime plot of the city’s core business district to as low as 100 metres, truncating the building heights and potential investment returns of…
Warnings to Taipei and Washington: China takes real and verbal shots across Taiwan Strait
“I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy,” he told a Fox News interviewer, “unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.”…
Rise of Xiaomi: the Chinese start-up poised to become world’s biggest IPO of 2018
I think Xiaomi’s business model is very different from theirs, even if it has absorbed some of their uniqueness Lei Jun China’s securities regulator showed its goodwill by approving a 27 billion yuan IPO application…
China holds live-fire drills off coast in warning to Taiwan
The official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday an air unit of the People’s Liberation Army ground forces held a live-fire exercise on Wednesday off China’s southeast coast. The PLA said the exercise involved the co-ordination…
China says ready to deal with any fallout from U.S. trade row
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is well prepared to handle any negative effects from its trade dispute with the United States, the commerce ministry said on Thursday, adding that China’s tariff hikes on U.S. imports will…
Nissan premium brand Infiniti aims to triple China sales: CEO
BEIJING (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co’s premium brand Infiniti plans to at least triple sales in China within the next five years by making four additional car models locally and shifting to more of an…
Taiwan says Beijing ‘saber rattling’ as China starts military drills
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that Beijing was using “cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling” to threaten Taiwan, as China’s military began live-fire drills in the sensitive Taiwan Strait amid growing…
US farmers concerned Trump’s trade war with China will hurt them
China needs us. We have a synergistic relationship … They all said, “Look, we may have to take a little bit of a hit.” Doug McKelway joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in November 2010 and…
Beijing beauty salon investigated after woman, 78, is persuaded to spend US$44,000 on treatments
Beijing’s industry and commerce authority is investigating a claim that a 78-year-old woman was defrauded by being coaxed into spending large sums of money at a beauty salon, a report claims. The woman spent 274,500…
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