AUTOMAKERS HASTEN TO WOO THE NEWLY WEALTHY IN CHINA
By Keith Bradsher
James Wang, a 27-year-old developer in Beijing bought a Maybach 62, a 20-foot ultraluxury sedan marketed as "the private jet of the road" for $900,000. Read more about how foreign automakers try to woo the newly wealthy in China...
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CAPTURING TODAY'S CHINESE CULTURE IN TRANSITION
What does a makeover of 5,000 years of culture feel like? Ask China, because that's what's happening there. "Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China," a perspective-altering show at both the International Center of Photography and the Asia Society, gives a panoramic glimpse of the continuing cultural revolution after the Cultural Revolution. One of the artist, Danwen, is an old friend of ChinaSprout who helped create the popular NiHao Little Friends). See the show at the ICP in New York, followed with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Seattle Art Museum.
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CHINA'S PANDA POPULATION UP BY 40%
By Cao Desheng
Panda protection equals panda procreation. That's the news from State Forestry Administration officials who say increased national efforts at protecting wildlife such as the Giant Panda have seen dramatic increases in the ranks of the endangered species, including more than 500 new pandas born within the past sixteen years...
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