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  • Online shopping fun or pain for foreigners?

    2017-11-11 08:54

    Due to its convenience, affordable prices and quick delivery, online shopping is increasingly making life easier for expats in China. As we count down to Singles Day, the world's largest shopping festival, our foreign readers share their online shopping stories with us.

  • Websites release report on singles' dating needs

    2017-11-10 17:10

    A human resources website along with an online matchmaking platform released a report on single professionals' dating needs Thursday, showing "programmer" is the job which has the highest rate of singles in China.

  • Alibaba sales race ahead on Singles Day

    2017-11-11 01:10

    Sales on Alibaba's platforms raced above 10 billion yuan ($1.53 billion) in just three minutes, smashing last year's mark of about seven minutes as the e-commerce behemoth raised the curtain of its ninth annual shopping extravaganza called Singles Day on Saturday.

  • Homegrown C919 makes first intercity flight

    2017-11-10 16:47

    China's large passenger jet, the C919, took off in Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 11:38 am and arrived at Xi'an Yanliang Testing Base, Shaanxi Province, around 2:00 pm Friday, its first intercity test flight.

  • Chinese patissier wins gold in world event

    2017-11-10 15:21

    A Chinese style fondant cake created by patissier Zhou Yi recently won a big round of applause as well as the First International Best prize at Cake International, the world's largest cake competition held in the UK.

  • With eye on AI, Sogou debuts on New York Stock Exchange

    2017-11-10 10:53

    Sogou, China's second-largest search engine, raised $585 million in an initial public offering on Thursday in a bid to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its business.

  • Teacher sells trash to help poor students

    2017-11-10 15:15

    In the past decade, He Chunyu has donated about 20,000 yuan (approximately $3,000) to more than 300 poor students in his school.

  • C919 starts first long-distance test flight

    2017-11-10 13:46

    The Chinese-produced large passenger jet, C919, started its first long-distance test flight on Friday morning.

  • US art historian in love with Dunhuang

    2017-11-10 07:38

    The 74-year-old US art historian Mimi Gates has passionately participated in the conservation of the Dunhuang relics for years.

  • Qualcomm signs $12b deals with Chinese firms

    2017-11-10 07:40

    Qualcomm Inc on Thursday signed non-binding deals worth about $12 billion with three of China's largest smartphone vendors as the United States chip giant beefed up efforts to strengthen ties with Chinese players amid ongoing patent disputes with Apple Inc.

  • Shanghai pop-up store brings in bookworms

    2017-11-10 07:21

    A temporary bookstore hosting book talks in the grounds of a historic Shanghai villa has become one of the city's latest attractions.

  • Chinese firms to build Alaska LNG pipeline

    2017-11-10 07:00

    China's oil major China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, Bank of China and CIC Capital Corp have agreed to help develop Alaska's liquefied natural gas sector by providing assistance to building a pipeline project.

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