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Business
China’s Alibaba Committed to Help Empower Small Businesses in India
China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba’s executive chairman Jack Ma committed that would help empower small businesses in India, when he met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (March 30, 2015) in New Delhi. Modi also noted “Had a very good meeting with Jack Ma”. Modi reportedly is keen to…
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Business
Global Use of the Renminbi is to Fall
Use of the renminbi in global payments fell in March. The Chinese currency broke into the top5 most used payments currencies last year, overtaking the Canadian and Australian dollars. But in February, renminbi use dropped to 1.8% of global payments from 2.2%, nudging it back down to 7th in the…
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Chinese Property Developers Suffer Big Price War
Chinese property developers are forced to sacrifice profits to boost sales, as the downturn in the housing market saddles. Most of the record were listed steady rise in revenue, but sharp declines in profit for many are a symptom of aggressive price-cutting. Agile Property, increased 8% in 2014, but profits…
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Business
Lenovo and Xiaomi Make New Friendship with Windows Phone
Microsoft has announced that it will develop smart devices with help of its Chinese friends-smart phone makers Lenovo and Xiaomi. It has been confirmed that Lenovo and Xiaomi had made commitment to run the latest version of Windows operating system. Lenovo is planning to launch Windows-based smartphones this summer according…
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Culture
The Spectacle of WrestleMania 31: pyrotechnics, ladders and Money in the Bank
All year round, wrestling fans may complain about the quality of wrestling and storylines and wrestlers, but if there is one time of the year, everyone comes together to celebrate, it is WrestleMania. The biggest event of the year, at the Grandest Stage of them all, WrestleMania. Millions of people…
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Oscars 2015: Birdman, Boyhood pushing the boundaries of Cinema
Just when I was wondering that the quality of cinema in 2014 would not surpass that of 2013, I watched films like Birdman and Boyhood, exceeding every expectation and slapping me across my face… with an Oscar. Frankly, I was afraid I would be right when I was thinking ‘How…
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Column
The Decisive Role of Leaders at War
A battle is a hostile fight between the commanding officers of both sides while a war is a fight between the highest leaders of the parties involved. The war between the Union and the Confederacy in the mid-19th century was indeed a fight between the Abraham Lincoln, the then leader…
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Column
Carrier of Information: Spies behind the Scenes
A spy’s activities revolve around digging secret information in foreign land. If the spy’s location has been made public of is revealed, the spy will never be able to steal information. The number of years needed to fully cover the identity of one spy cannot be counted, not to mention…
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East Asia
Noodles, Asia’s favorite
Men and women, young and old all over the world enjoy food made with noodles made into hundreds, if not thousands of different types. Especially in Asia, as many types of noodles rise to popularity, national cuisine of different countries becomes popular as well. For example, Vietnam has pho (rice…
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East Asia
Reconsidering ‘Multicultural’ in Korea necessary
The good thing about living in Korea is the fast pace of transformation and changes happening in the society. For its transformation into becoming a multicultural society, Korea has quickly instituted a good number of policies compared to other countries with the same history of multiculturalism. These policies were proposed,…
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