Tag Archives : Beijing

One of the foremost cycling associations in Asia, The Cycling Grand Tour League, has now initiated an all new ‘around the world’ campaign, where in the organization is urging its members to journey across around the globe on their bicycles and experience the sights and sounds with a truly personal perspective. This incredible new program that [...]

Whether it be offices, malls or hospitals, the presence of automated coffee machines is hard worth a second glance and as we go about our daily lives, the makers of one of the foremost coffee makers, Nespresso, has now introduced an all new luxury tea maker in the form of Tpresso, that the company plans to launch China in the month of April this year. [...]

Intel today opened its first factory in China, a project whose inauguration took place several years after the U.S. company made the announcement of initial investment of $ 2.5 billion. Construction of the factory in northeast China, required a long-term Chinese standards. The announcement of the project’s first production unit of Intel chips [...]

Lenovo, the fourth largest maker of personal computers, announced on Monday that products for mobile Internet will account for between 10% and 20% of its revenue in five years, with the beginning of a new campaign to expand into the wireless communication. The company expects to sell millions of units of its new line of smartphones within one to five [...]

Since the day the world first lay its eyes on the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube in Beijing, people have been obsessed with creating the perfect stadium, to hold international sporting events. The trend is understandable though with television making these grand engineering and designing marvels appear as symbols of national pride, creativity and capability. [...]

The vaccine manufactured by Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Ltd. has received approval from the State Food and Drug Administration’s drug registration department in China. The World Health Organization has stated that the results of clinical trials have been encouraging. The WHO had access to test results and has declared that there is no reason [...]

As it did in Tibet, the Chinese leadership is repressing the disturbances hardly in Xinjiang. The Muslims Uigures of the area are feeling degraded and stolen of their culture while they suffer in their birthplace under the domain of Han Chinese ethnicity. Xinjiang (“new border”, in Chinese) is an enormous area that links China to Central [...]

According to Amnesty International, 1,718 people were executed in China in 2008. At least 7,003 face the death sentence. In a secretive regime such as China, nobody really knows if these figures are accurate. Most of these executions were done through the firing squad. There are plans, however, to completely eradicate the use of firing squads by the [...]

China is observed to be suffering from amnesia regarding the massacre that occurred at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 20 years ago. Some attribute this to state-enforced erasure of collective memory. The communist regime in China ‘tolerates no mention of the massacre.’ On June 3 and 4, 1989, students and mostly Chinese elite and intellectuals filled [...]

China and Taiwan parted ways in 1949, but China still regards the island nation as part of its territory. Here lies the problem that has been festering for 60 years. To stake its claim and reiterate its position, China has threatened war against Taiwan several times in the past. As far as China is concerned, Taiwan has not crossed the dangerous line [...]