Lenovo has unveiled its first 4G LTE smartphone, the Lenovo Vibe Z. To complement the Vibe Z, Lenovo also launched a trio of smartphones, starting with the S930, a large 6-inch device primed for media addicts, the S650, a 4.7-inch compact workhorse, and the A859, a 5-inch high performance all-rounder. As Lenovo’s first smartphone featuring

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Shanghai-based China Media Capital (CMC) says that it has signed an agreement to acquire 21st Century Fox’s 47% stake in Star China TV, according to a joint statement. Star China TV’s management team is participating in the acquisition along with CMC. China Media Capital already owns a controlling stake of Star China TV. Formed in

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Over 300 IPOs are likely to be completed in China’s A share market in 2014, raising as much as a total of $42 billion, close to the country’s historical records, estimated by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The companies will mainly come from the manufacturing, retail and consumers, services and technology sectors. About 40 companies will IPO on

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The author is chief China economist at Capital Economics Mark Williams The final reading of the HSBC/Markit manufacturing PMI for December came in at 50.5. This was unchanged from the flash estimate and squarely in line with expectations (both our forecast and the Bloomberg median were 50.5). It is the weakest reading since September. This

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The story of a couple from Hanzhong City, Shaanxi province who abandoned their 33-day-old baby in the cold because of his illnesses has gained attention from shocked netizens across the country.

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The main entrance to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco was set on fire Wednesday night in what Chinese officials are calling a ‘despicable attack’. Pictures of the consulate set aflame have been circulating across China’s social media and news sites ‘drawing expressions of outrage from commenters assailing the attack’.

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French pop rock maverick Matthieu Chedid will be returning to China this March. Often performing under the monicker -M-, Chedid is a songwriter, poet, maniac with a guitar, and a sort of Serge Gainsbourg, Prince hybrid. The upcoming China tour will also feature AM444, who will…

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I was instantly transported back into a misspent early childhood the moment the chiptune signature of Super Mario Bros. registered. Co-owner Dale obligingly cranked the volume at my station, and the next thing I knew, a few hours had passed. That’s going to be the danger at the city’s first retro…

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It took several attempts before I worked up the courage to settle down in The Other Place, a bar-cafe off of Beiluoguxiang that caught the Gulou crowd’s attention last spring when it was redesigned by electronic music aficionados Wu Fei and Markus M….

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Happy New Year, everyone. Moving into 2014, I think we have a much better idea about what is going on in the world of IT security and government skullduggery than we did this time last year, thanks to ex-contractor Edward Snowden, grudging investigative reporting and even more reluctant U.S. government oversight.

These disclosures about what the U.S. National Security Agency was doing with private data puts a rather interesting spin…

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