Some months ago, Inc. Magazine selected a woman named Ping Fu as its Entrepeneur of the Year. She is an immigrant from China and is responsible for starting a software firm called Geomagic. Geomagic's claim to faim is the development of DSSP technology, which will probably make CAD/CAM obsolete.

From extreme persecution during China's Cultural ( Read more... )

3,000-Year-Old Rice Unearthed in SW China ( Read more... )

As the United States prepares a WTO lawsuit against China's copyright laws while the Chinese government imposes new media restrictions on foreign magazines and creates a new database containing data on 96% of its own citizens, there was a closed door meeting among senior Chinese economists, intellectuals, and powerbrokers in early March that is now ( Read more... )

There is an academic controversy in China. It revolves around a map allegedly copied by a Chinese cartographer in 1763 from a purportedly unfound original 1418 map made by Chinese explorer Zheng He showing that he discovered America before Columbus. On one side are the naysayers saying that the map isn't authentic. On the other side are those who ( Read more... )

American motorcycle manufacturer Harley Davidson will soon open up its first Chinese retail outlet in a very long time:

Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is to open a dealership in Beijing, its first outlet in China in more than 50 years.Beijing Harley-Davidson, which has teamed up with dealer Beijing Feng Hou Lun, is set to open in April ( Read more... )

The official word is that most Chinese people generally like us:

Two in three Chinese generally like Americans while one in five dislikes them, according to a recent poll ( Read more... )

Many people view China as potentially being the next economic superpower. Among other things, they're extending their influence farther into Africa and Latin America, working hard to increase their engineering prowess, looking to acquire the strategic resources of other countries, and are attempting to start making jumbo jets againHowever, China's ( Read more... )

I went to Cambodia last December and traveled part of the way on Singapore Airlines. There I read about traveling China. I read about a city called Xiamen. That place looked very interesting. How would I pronounce the name of the place? Has anyone here been to China? I also think the Guangxi Province looks interesting.

China Merchants Bank chairman confirms Hong Kong listing plan this year ( Read more... )

China has announced that they will delay their third space mission:

China will postpone the launch of its third manned space mission by about six months to 2008, the state media reported on Sunday ( Read more... )