The group buying site, which launched its Chinese operations in March, faces stiff competition in a fast-growing industry.
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Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday urged Chinese youths to work hard and be persistent in achieving their goals while he spent more than two hours chatting with young people on the eve of China’s Youth…
SHANGHAI – More than 70 percent of Chinese white-collar workers suffer from overwork and are at a greater risk of having health troubles as a result, according to a recent survey. The survey, which was…
Expectant mothers from the Chinese mainland will no longer be able to give birth in public hospitals in Hong Kong, the xinmin.cn reported yesterday. The Hospital Authority of Hong Kong (HAHK) has announced that from…
BEIJING – China’s population is getting older, and that could have a major effect on the nation’s economic prosperity. The emergence of negative growth in the total working-age population, which some demographers predict will happen…
The current number of residences in Beijing has reached nearly 20 million, and experts concern that the city is on the verge of an over-population crisis, citing a report of Beijing News Monday. By the…
Former premier Zhu Rongji made a rare public appearance yesterday, delivering a scathing criticism of the mainland’s education system and other policies during a visit to his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Zhu (pictured) lashed out…
The fertile fields of this corner of eastern China are an unlikely microcosm of the national economy. There is not a power plant or factory in sight. Yet the area encapsulates as well as any…
The battle between two major Chinese social networking sites, Renren.com and Kaixin001.com, will soon spread to the US stock market. That’s because the two companies are planning IPOs in the United States in the coming…
They may not have written the book of love, but Beijing’s education authorities have come close, updating the capital’s university curriculum with a chapter on how to handle romantic relationships. The new teaching guidelines on…