Last week's truce - merger, if you will - between rival discount cab ride apps Didi Chuxing and Uber China followed years of fierce competition. Here is the low-down on the proposed deal.
Fan Fengqiang, a 26-year-old in Beijing who owns a garment store, recently bought the Buzzard, a smart sports bicycle for 5,999 yuan ($895). The made-in-China Buzzard is so smart that Fan now uses it not only for exercise but to commute to work.
The bicycle first entered China as an import item in November 1868. Back then, bicycles were used exclusively to entertain the royalty. And 147 years on, the two-wheelers are riding a wave of innovation in China to glory.
First, it was the Chinese crepe or jianbing. Years back, the Manhattan Island simply fell in love with China's popular street food that originated in Tianjin.
China's e-commerce market may have proven to be dismal hunting grounds for some of the world's largest luxury brands but Federico Marchetti, the CEO of Yoox Net-a-Porter Group, believes that the online retail empire he is building will not falter as others have.
All-Star guard agrees to 3-year extension worth $85.7 million
Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles are reigning Olympic and world champions in gymnastics, but meeting Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt in Rio proved an overwhelming experience for the US teammates on Wednesday.
New Zealand riding legend Mark Todd is the grizzled poster boy for the hardy bunch of sixty-somethings competing in the Rio equestrian arena starting on Saturday.
The IOC on Thursday approved the entry of 271 Russian athletes to the Rio Olympics, meaning 70 percent of the country's original team will compete after a doping scandal dominated the buildup to the games.
An enterprising Brazilian college student has found a way to make money off one of the torches used to carry the Olympic flame toward Rio de Janeiro: get tourists to pose with it for pictures.
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