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China: nutrition guiding light or ticking time bomb? The world's second largest economy is leading the world in reducing malnutrition, but its overweight children threaten to impact economic growth Fat China: how are policymakers tackling rising obesity? China: nutrition guiding light...

Manufacturing index rises fractionally but shows fourth straight month of contraction May 5, 2014, Monday CHINA'S manufacturing activity in private and export-oriented firms ticked up slightly in April, a survey showed this morning. The HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index, which measures...

Re: Huawei to invest $2bn in India China's towering metal stockpiles cast economic shadow When metals warehouses in top consumer China are so full that workers start stockpiling iron ore in granaries and copper in car parks, you know the global economy could be in trouble. At Qingdao Port...

Falling prices to kill off half of Chinese LED chipmakers In China, surplus capacity and sliding prices are sounding the death knell for half of the companies making light emitting diode (LED) chips used in Samsung television panels and Sharp computer monitors, with only the large, state-backed...

That is what China is. They are funkily crude and barbarians and are yet to evolve! To imagine a 50 center trying to impress Indians as to what Chinese do!

Sweetheart, Are you aware that the Chinese defecate in holes in the floor? BAD MANNERS IN CHINA Chinese have a reputation for having bad manners: spitting in streets, making loud slurping noises when they eat, walking around in public without a shirt; cutting in line; urinating in public...

China reveals exports, imports fall in January \ BEIJING -- China's trade activity fell in January from a year earlier, data showed Friday, as a domestic slowdown, overseas turmoil and factory closures during the Lunar New Year holiday hit demand. Exports fell 0.5 percent year-on-year in...

It all leads to inflation and as it is there is unrest amongst the have and have nots. Sitting on forex alone does not solve the domestic problem. As one understands the forex is basically to make inroads into foreign economies and buy goods that are required urgently to reverse engineer and...

Hopefully, the quality will be exacting as the German standards.

The Party line on Mao after he died was that he was 70 percent right and 30 percent wrong—or in other words, the blunders such as the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Foreword were outweighed by the good things he did for the Chinese people. The 7:3 ratio is even quoted in tourist guides put...

What about that massive Chinese port that was built on reclaimed land? Was it the Taicang Port? I saw it on National Geographic where the land was reclaimed and was built with totally computerised equipment and then the ships loaded with computerised cranes etc. It was quite fantastic. I...

It is important to note China's 'humane' attitude towards cash strapped economies. They offer increased trade, which assist it boosting their economy, rather than any concrete assistance. Sniffing for a gain even from a distressed people!! It is interesting to note how by buying government...

I am no economist and I admit I am a greenhorn in this sphere. I feel that a total free for all economy, as in the US, has greater chance for a tailspin, that a semi controlled economy as in India. True that India is not a skyrocketing economic powerhouse, but it is plodding its way up with...

Middle class, to my mind, is the subsistence level of people, between the filthy rich and the abject poor!

The Chinese news does not agree with you (as posted above). But then, you must be right and the newspaper, which gets it info from the CCP, is wrong! Hyperinflation acceptable, but what about hyperventilation?

Oh goody! Here is something to cheer one about!

What do you make of it? Is China up a gum tree?