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US tech firms ask China to postpone 'intrusive' rules
US business groups are seeking "urgent discussions" over new Chinese rules requiring foreign firms to hand over source code and other measures.
The groups wrote to senior government officials after the introduction of the cybersecurity regulations at the end of last year.
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China's economic invasion of Africa
A million Chinese people, from engineers to chefs, have moved to work in Africa in the past decade. How has the trade boom changed their lives?
In December 1999, a 24-year-old Chinese man called Zhang Hao left behind the freezing winter of his native Shenyang city to fly to Uganda. Zhang was nervous. He spoke no English. The journey was not even his idea, but that of his father, who had worked in Uganda a few years before on a fishing proje...
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Chinese police alleged to have eaten endangered giant salamander at banquet
Chinese officials feasting on critically endangered giant salamander turned violent when journalists photographed the luxury banquet, according to media reports.
The 28 diners included senior police officials from the southern city of Shenzhen, the Global Times said in a report which appeared to show a flouting of Beijing’s austerity campaign.
... “In my territory, it is my treat,” it quoted a man in the room as saying.
The giant salamander is believed by some Chinese to have anti-ageing properties, but there is no orthodox evidence to back the claim.
The species is classed as “critically endangered” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which says the population has “declined catastrophically over the last 30 years”.
“Commercial over-exploitation for human consumption is the main threat to this species,” the IUCN said.
The Global Times cited the Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily, which said its journalists were beaten up when their identities were discovered by the diners.
One was kicked and slapped, another had his mobile phone forcibly taken, while the photographer was choked, beaten up and had his camera smashed, the reports said.
A total of 14 police have been suspended and an investigation launched into the incident, added the Global Times.
The salamander was provided by one of the diners, who said it had been bred in captivity, according to the report.
Chinese president Xi Jinping has launched a much-publicised austerity drive for the ruling classes, including a campaign for simple meals with the catchphrase “four dishes and one soup”.
The ruling Communist party also says it is cracking down on the consumption of endangered species, including shark’s fin.
China’s legislature last April approved a law including prison sentences for people caught eating rare wild animals.
The Chinese government considers 420 wild animal species as rare or endangered, state media previously said.
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Chinese manufacturing weak for second consecutive month Activity in China's vast manufacturing sector contracted for the second consecutive month, according to a preliminary survey on Friday.
The HSBC/Markit flash purchasing managers' index (PMI) was at 49.8 in January, up from 49.6 in December.
... But the index was still below the 50-point level that separates growth from contraction in the sector.
Firms cut prices for six months in a row to sell products, impacting profit margins, said the private survey.
Economists had expected factory activity growth to continue to stall, with a Reuter's poll forecasting a reading of 49.6.
News of the contraction comes just days after Chinese authorities said growth in the world's second largest economy had slowed to its weakest in 24 years.
China's economy expanded 7.4% in 2014 from a year ago, missing its official growth target of 7.5% for the first time in 15 years.
Deflation fears The recent data has stoked fears of deflation in China where producer prices have fallen for nearly three consecutive years.
On the back of that, China's annual consumer inflation hit a near five-year low of 1.5% in December.
"Today's data suggest that the manufacturing slowdown is still ongoing amidst weak domestic demand," Qu Hongbin, a HSBC economist told Reuters.
"More monetary and fiscal easing measures will be needed to support growth in the coming months."
Calls have been growing for more easing in China and the country's central bank did surprise markets by unexpectedly cutting interest rates in November for the first time in over two years.
Meanwhile, Asian markets ignored the weak data with both the Shanghai Composite and Hang Seng index up 1.8% and 1.3% respectively.
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Who is watermelon man? Man wearing hollowed-out fruit 'helmet' on Chinese subway becomes online celebrity
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Chinese restaurant promises free food to the beautiful
A restaurant in central China is offering free meals to its most attractive clients.
The Jeju Island restaurant, a Korean eatery in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, says the 50 most handsome people to arrive at its gates each day will be spared paying their bills.
... Those hoping for a free lunch have their looks evaluated by a panel of local plastic surgeons whose tummy-tucking talents the restaurant is attempting to promote.
Before eating guests are taken to a "beauty identification area" where they are photographed and considered. Potential diners are judged on the quality of their faces, eyes, noses and mouths. Protruding foreheads are a particular advantage, according to reports. As news of the promotion spread, Chinese internet users debated how they might fare at the restaurant.
"I reckon I can get a one per cent discount with my face," joked one user of Weibo, the social media site.
"Do the ugly have to pay twice?" wondered another.
The restaurant's owners appear to be more concerned with physical appearance than English language skills. "Free meal for Goodlooking," read a bright pink sign that was hung outside the eatery last Saturday to advertise the newly launched promotion.
A customer uses a face-scanning machine at the restaurant (Corbis) Authorities in Zhengzhou were unimpressed, accusing the initiative of damaging the city's image and claiming the garish sign did not have official permission.
On Tuesday teams of security guards and demolition workers descended on the restaurant to remove the sign, China News Service reported.
Xue Hexin, the restaurant manager, vowed that the free meals for the beautiful would not be stopped.
"We will be more prudent with our advertising in future," she said. "But the promotion will continue despite the demolition of our sign."
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London New Year’s Eve fireworks made ticket-only for first time
Exactly a year ago, an estimated 500,000 people crammed into a small section of central London to view the New Year’s Eve firework display, resulting in crowded conditions that the mayor, Boris Johnson, said had made the free event “untenable”.
As a result, for the first time on Thursday evening only 100,000 paying ticket holders will be permitted to watch London’s annual celebration from a fenced-off area, with ...
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You eat dogs and cats no one will visit soon ban the dog and cat trade now

WILL NEVER VISIT CHINA UNTIL YOU END THE CAT AND DOG MEAT TRADE !!!

SHAME ON YOU ...

Never will I visit a country that tortures dogs and cats. You try to pretend it isn`t happening but the world sees the ugly truth. Dogs are skinned alive, boiled, burnt, beaten, limbs cut of in the sick belief the meat will taste better. What sort of inhumane country allows this? Show compassion....stop the dog and cat meat trade.

You eat dogs and cats no one will visit soon ban the dog and cat trade now

WILL NEVER VISIT CHINA UNTIL YOU END THE CAT AND DOG MEAT TRADE !!!

SHAME ON YOU ...

Never will I visit a country that tortures dogs and cats. You try to pretend it isn`t happening but the world sees the ugly truth. Dogs are skinned alive, boiled, burnt, beaten, limbs cut of in the sick belief the meat will taste better. What sort of inhumane country allows this? Show compassion....stop the dog and cat meat trade.