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Chinese tap carpool apps for Spring Festival ride home

[2016-02-22 08:35]

The hundreds of millions of Chinese who headed home for Lunar New Year had a relatively new travel option this year: mobile apps to find carpool partners to share costs in what is a novel concept for most Chinese.

Will translation software sound the death knell for interpreters?

[2016-02-22 08:35]

If, as the Chinese proverb goes, "to learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world", Chinese search engine Baidu has provided the country with a portal to the entire planet at their fingertips. Earlier last month, the Baidu Translate app was given a top national science award for their work advancing automated translations in a rarely seen honor for internet companies.

Market ponders sustainable recovery

[2016-02-22 08:35]

Uncertainty deepens over whether new credit can spur strong investment growth in coming months

Emerging sectors set to outperform old economy

[2016-02-22 08:35]

Companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses are forecast to announce divergent financial results for the first quarter (January-March) of this year and the entire last year.

Message in a bottle: Beauty lasts forever

[2016-02-20 08:20]

The allegorical bottle that Laura Hofstadter threw into the water has had an interesting journey, one that would have taken it up San Francisco Bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge, out into the Pacific Ocean and finally washing up ashore somewhere in China all these years later.

Are we at risk from the robots?

[2016-02-20 08:20]

They are already making our cars, vacuuming our floors and serving our food, and during this year's Spring Festival Gala we saw dozens of them dance in unison to some annoying song.

HNA spreads its wings in the US

[2016-02-19 08:07]

Airline group to buy Ingram Micro at price of $38.9 per share, valuing it at $6 billion

Aston Martin, LeEco to develop electric car

[2016-02-19 08:07]

Aston Martin will set up a venture with Chinese consumer electronics group LeEco Holdings Co Ltd to jointly develop the British luxury car brand's first electric vehicle, an example of the deepening ties between the technology and automotive industries.

Perfect World lands $250m deal to finance movies by Universal

[2016-02-19 08:07]

Major investment will also help US company expand into growing Chinese film market

H shares jump to 2-week high in HK

[2016-02-19 08:07]

Chinese mainland stocks rose to the highest level in two weeks in Hong Kong, joining a global equity rebound as oil prices advanced.

Russian shoppers seeking bargains

[2016-02-18 08:25]

34% of country's online trades are conducted by Chinese firms, led by AliExpress and JD

Consumers flocking to China's platforms

[2016-02-18 08:25]

Chinese online shoppers, who spent an estimated 4 trillion yuan ($608.8 billion) in 2015, are not the only demographic smitten by China's e-commerce sector.

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