This is Sanlitun just received a distribution deal and will go on general release in China after the New Year. Here, we celebrate their success with this behind the scenes look at Robert Ingi Douglas’s…

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The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong, which had been blocked behind heavy Antarctic ice for four days after it was sent to rescue a trapped Russian ship, finally made its escape on Tuesday at 18:30 Beijing time, days before requested US icebreaker Polar Star would reach the ice field.

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Wong Kar-Wai Showcase @ Eight Art Hotel Eight Art Hotel is screening a different Wong Kar Wai film every Wednesday night for the next three weeks. January 8 it’s In the Mood for Love. Happy hour drinks are a go. Free Entry // 19:00-22:00 // 7 Yan’an East Road Ladies On Top @ Barbarossa Every Wednesday Barbarossa welcomes all the ladies to enjoy free selected cocktails. Free Entry…

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Li Tingwei, president for Broadcom Greater China, announced the company’s development strategy for the Chinese market as it aims to achieve growth via 3G/4G smartphone chips, base stations, and big data. Li said Broadcom hopes to become the best semiconductor solutions provider in the Chinese market, making this marketplace its largest market outside America. The

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U.S.-based Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. is forging ties with local Chinese bureaucrats as it signs a new technology transfer and manufacturing deal in eastern China. Ascent has signed an agreement to establish a joint venture with the Government of the Municipal City of Suqian in Jiangsu Province. Under this definitive agreement, Suqian will provide cash

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After photos of the Chinese National Pole Dancing Team performing in the snow went viral (for serious, complex reasons, I’m sure), the intrepid journalists at Xinhua decided to give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the team.

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Run Run Shaw was a big deal. Co-producer of Blade Runner, muse of Quentin Tarantino, and founder of the Shaw Brothers Film Studio, which has produced more than 1,000 films since 1958 and which firmly brought the Kung-Fu genre into the global mainstream.

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Chen Guangbiao isn’t going to buy the New York Times. It doesn’t matter how many “please, please take-me-seriously” editorials he writes for the Global Times, or how many millions of dollars he attempts to throw at publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who has unequivocally said that the paper is “not for sale.” The Times simply isn’t on the market, and wouldn’t be in Chen’s price/influence range even if it was….

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Since it debuted in NY last May, Dominique Ansel’s doughnut-croissant hybrid, the Cronut, has been treated like the second coming of the iPhone. It fetches gargantuan lines starting in the wee hours of the morning, has partnered with some of NY’s most respectable restaurant chains, and spawned countless imitators worldwide. One of the latest has been developed by Shanghai’s own chef Owen Wang at the Pudong Shangri-La. Called “cronuts”…

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The Sanlitun power players of Mediterranean have joined together along with Chi Fan for Charity for a charity promotion that will run for two and a half months. The deal is this: buy a book of coupons for RMB 50 from any of the participating restaurants –

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