Cross-continent trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars promises a healthy and fruitful future
Ten years living and working in South Africa taught Joseph Githu, 36, an important lesson: growing Chinese vegetables is a lucrative business.
On a small farm in Kiambu county, less than an hour's drive from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, stand three greenhouses. Inside one, Chinese long beans have made their way along the strings set for them up to the ceiling. They stand there line by line, like soldiers on parade. Beans hang down everywhere, suggesting a good harvest.
Some 6,000 firms may list on NEEQ by the year end, but stricter rules are seen as key
Bullish investors are expecting the Fifth Plenum, a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party to be held this week, will continue to fuel the stock rally, but some less optimistic traders worry that the current stock prices already factor in the likelihood of a policy catalyst, and might face rising selling pressure.
Forget the undead, it's the mobile device addicts filling the sidewalks that I worry about
When Marty McFly and "Doc" Brown burst into 2015 in a time machine, straight from the year 1985, they encounter a brave new world of garbage-fuelled flying cars, self-tying shoes and robot waiters.
Despite an economic slowdown, Asia's affair with high-end timepieces goes on. Watches & Wonders 2015 saw 20,000 visitors, a 25 percent jump from last year. Sun Yunqing reports.
A Beijing hotel food festival brings the light flavors of Ningbo cuisine to foodies in the capital. Liu Zhihua stops by for a sampling.
His fabled restaurant El Bulli has been shut since 2011, but Ferran Adria continues to be a creative spark in the culinary world. This week, the chef routinely lauded as among the world's greatest has brought his revolutionary ideas about cuisine to China, with a Chinese-language edition of his seven-volume magnum opus, El Bulli 2005-2011.
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