When Wang Shukun was studying English at the Tianjin Foreign Studies University, he adopted Eric as his given foreign name, a practice common in China for students of foreign languages.
Can someone who sings off-key become a pop singer? William Hung proved the trick could be pulled off if you gain a large enough following. It does not matter, it seems, if a crowd is there to cheer you for your chutzpah or jeer at you for singing badly.
Investors inclined to sell yuan as US Federal Reserve ends quantitative easing policy
The China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund, a private equity fund set up by the Chinese government, is looking to increase its investments in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, especially in influential projects that offer good returns, a top official with the fund said on Tuesday.
Nearly half of the developers that have filed preliminary 2014 earnings figures with mainland stock exchanges warned of lower profits, underscoring the depth of the correction in the industry.
With an increasing number of Chinese consumers taking to websites to buy products ranging from clothes to electronics and even furniture, the number of complaints about such purchases has also increased.
Clicking the "bid" button, Zhang Ziyue, a 27-year-old Shanghai resident, joined a real-time online auction on Thursday. After three rounds of bidding, the virtual hammer fell - and a pair of pearl earrings were hers for 400 yuan ($64.42).
Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off a new version of Windows - and a new wearable 3D gadget it calls the HoloLens.
Manhattan real estate agent Lisa Gustin listed a four-bedroom Tribeca loft for $7.45 million in October, expecting a quick sale. Instead, she cut the price this month by $550,000.
E-commerce giant eBay will slash 2,400 jobs - 7 percent of its workforce in the current quarter as it restructures and prepares to spin off its PayPal finance unit, it said on Wednesday.
Sukuk investors are maintaining support for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak as he sacrifices budget deficit targets to sustain development spending.
With the companies that built the nation's high-speed rail system bagging deals abroad, nuclear technology and equipment sales are next on China's agenda.
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