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Alibaba buys ShopRunner stake, $75 M

[2013-08-21 11:03]

Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, has bought a minority stake in online shopping company ShopRunner for $75 million.

China tops US in phone use

[2013-08-21 11:03]

More Chinese than Americans use a smartphone as their primary media device, but more Americans depend on it so much that they would "never leave home without it", according to a study.
47% Chinese urbanites have smartphones: Google

Is it really possible to make people read books?

[2013-08-21 11:03]

Mark Twain once defined the classics as books that everyone wants to have read, but no one wants to read.

ZTE's '1st-time' phones on eBay

[2013-08-20 10:49]

ZTE Corp's selling of its inexpensive "Open" smartphone on e-commerce site eBay will give it deeper market penetration and build up its brand.

Is a wave of Chinese IPOs on the horizon?

[2013-08-20 10:49]

Despite the small number of Chinese companies that have listed on US stock markets this year, the stable performance of many of them is a good sign that a wave - however small - of Chinese firms is on its way to listing in the US.

US' Pacific policy unbalanced: Chang

[2013-08-20 10:49]

Chinese Minister of Defense Chang Wanquan was blunt in voicing dissatisfaction over the US rebalancing to Asia policy, which he believes needs to be rebalanced itself.

Ruckus helps med school go Wi-Fi

[2013-08-19 10:47]

Ruckus Wireless Inc of Sunnyvale, California, has teamed up with China Telecom to complete phase one of the state-of-the-art system at Luzhou Medical College in western China.

Despite progress, stereotypes in US pop culture persist

[2013-08-19 10:47]

Late last week the Media Action Network for Asian Americans made public a letter to Fox network asking that the pilot for Dads, an upcoming sitcom, be reshot for racist regurgitations of Asian American stereotypes.

Qigong is catching on

[2013-08-19 10:47]

The International Health Qigong Federation is hosting a series of forums and events in New York and New Jersey, spotlighting an ancient Chinese practice aimed at improving physical and mental well being.

Louisiana parish strengthens economic ties with sister city

[2013-08-19 10:47]

The head of an economic-development authority in Louisiana says it's "on the verge" of announcing projects with its sister city of Weihai after a recent trip to the port city in China.

Immigrant businesswomen in the spotlight

[2013-08-16 11:58]

Success stories about female entrepreneurs in the mainstream media are usually large in scale and revenue, spotlighting millionaires like Oprah and Martha Stewart.

ABC-TV may air Chinese-American sitcom

[2013-08-16 11:58]

Restaurateur and VICE TV host Eddie Huang's recently published memoir Fresh Off the Boat will serve as inspiration for a potential ABC-TV sitcom that will be the first Chinese American-focused show on a major US network.

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