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Huawei moves into top three globally

[2016-01-04 07:42]

Huawei Technologies Co. shipped more than 100 million smartphones this year as a drive to attract higher-end customers helped defy an industry slowdown that hit rival Chinese vendors.

Empowering users to tame pesky pre-installed apps

[2016-01-04 07:42]

As mobile phone penetration reaches deeper into China, the industry regulator is stepping up efforts to ensure that the valuable real estate on smartphone screens is reserved for apps consumers really want.

Local firms go, 'Oh yes, let's have OS'

[2016-01-04 07:42]

Last year witnessed explosive growth in smartwatches and this year, competition may intensify in terms of their external appearances. For, their core part, that is, the operating system or OS space, is dominated by just a couple of international majors.

Theme park facility firm on a joy ride

[2016-01-04 07:42]

In 2001, just a few days after the "911" attacks, Li Jian, then an executive with a theme park, visited the United States and met Peter Schnabel, then a founder of Premier Rides Inc. He was impressed by the roller coaster Premier Rides sold to Disney California Adventure.

PwC takes China's positives into account

[2016-01-04 07:42]

For the past 23 years, Raymund Chao, 54, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Greater China, has been working in the country with the network that offers professional services like auditing, assurance, tax and management consulting. As its leader, he is now keen the company must make a difference to the community.

On the move

[2016-01-04 07:42]

Uber Shanghai GM quits

Bussell: Boys eclipsing girls due to Billy Elliot effect

[2016-01-02 07:47]

Female ballet dancers could be at risk of being left behind thanks to the "Billy Elliot effect", Darcey Bussell has suggested, as she claimed dance schools are now inundated with more boys than girls.

Revival of classic musical creates 'something special'

[2016-01-02 07:47]

Oh, how Sheffield Theatres will miss Daniel Evans. The outgoing artistic director, recently announced as the new head of Chichester Festival Theatre, has an assured reputation for copper-bottomed productions of classic musicals.

'Meat and two veg' set by Welsh rockers satisfies but rarely thrills

[2016-01-02 07:47]

Over their nine-album career, Welsh band Stereophonics have written a handful of stone-cold-classic rock songs. Anthems such as A Thousand Trees, Dakota and Traffic are copper-bottomed, Class A earworms.

Finding the right sperm donor

[2016-01-01 07:27]

Storage centers use innovative methods to bring in the numbers

Social taboo still a worrisome factor curbing sperm donation

[2016-01-01 07:27]

Though sperm donation is gaining ground in China, fears about potential incest and other social taboos are keeping many potential donors away from the clinics, say experts.

MU players fighting for van Gaal, says Rooney

[2015-12-26 08:01]

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney declared on Thursday that he and his teammates are "fighting" to save the job of embattled manager Louis van Gaal.

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