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Zambia is home to more than 80,000 Chinese of an estimated population of 925,000 Chinese now living and working in Africa, the majority of whom are men working in various jobs in urban and rural areas.

These houses, thus, had to serve dual roles: to project an image of luxury, with newfound wealth and culture represented by ostentatious ornament with a distinct western influence, and to protect that wealth from marauding bandits (apparently a big problem at the time).

One of iBahn's largest clients is Marriott International, which holds meetings for multinational companies. By breaking into iBahn's network, China may have been able to see millions of corporate emails whether they were encrypted by iPass or not.

"China has always insisted upon a policy of self-sufficiency in grain. Instead of purchasing piles of land in Africa, it has, to the best of its ability, offered aid in agricultural technology to African countries and helped their agricultural production, as well as boosted the indigenous exploitation of their own natural resources and the capacity to cope with climate change and food security," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing in Beijing.

艾未粉果 Ai Wei Fans' Nudity —— Listen, Chinese Government： Nudity is not Pornography

In a recent post, I included some pictures of Shenzhen in 1980 (similar to the one above), just a few years after the establishment of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Thirty years later, these images of a car-free fishing village have been erased by a towering metropolis.

The mist and fog in Chongqing is real. It is athmospherical. The city’s nickname in China is City of Fog. It’s been like this since a long time. Of course there is also pollution from several kinds of industry in the athmospere. Surprisingly I never felt affected by the air quality.

Silverlight was an opponent to Flash. Apple didn’t favor its own proprietary plugin over Flash. There’s no QuickTime plugin on iOS either.

Ça c'est sûr, il ne faudrait pas laisser le navigateur ouvert.

Apple’s view was, and is, that there should be no proprietary web browser plugins, period.

La vision d'Apple est que si on veut offrir plus que la version propriétaire de HTML supportée par Mobile Safari, il faut acheter un ordinateur Apple et payer pour avoir le droit de développer des applications, et payer pour se former à des outils et bibliothèques propriétaires qu'aucune autre plateforme au monde n'utilise. La vision d'Apple c'est : aboule le pognon, et pas de concurrence, point. Apple c'est l'ouverture... à la chinoise.

Alas, the artifact’s original sin (its ‘noiselessness’) might be the cause of its second death: Shenzhen banned electric bicycles from the downtown area to reduce the number of accidents.

you don't have any other choice than enjoying the present way, and defying your own fears.

An imbalance in the opposite direction characterizes the contemporary marriage market in China. The Chinese government’s one-child policy, combined with a cultural preference for sons and technologies that permit selective abortion, have helped to create a large sex-ratio imbalance among young Chinese. For every 100 women in that group, there are now more than 120 men.

Paradoxalement, Apple a parfaitement pénétré le marché chinois, elle fait fabriquer ses Ipads et Iphones en Chine et aucune société chinoise ne semble lui faire de l’ombre: les consommateurs chinois réclament Apple coûte que coûte. L’Apple Store de Pékin est devenu en trois ans, le magasin de la firme le plus profitable au monde.

Cela va donc à l’encontre de tous ceux qui pensaient que le transfert de technologie était le prix à payer pour accéder ensuite au marché chinois. A l’inverse, des fabricants de tgv ou de centrales nucléaires se sont mordus les doigts en transférant massivement leurs savoirs et en ne récupérant, à court terme, qu’une poignée de contrats. Un supplice qui n’en finit plus car ceux-ci en viennent à présent à subir la concurrence chinoise sur leur propre marché historique.

Justement, ça a fonctionné pour Apple parce qu'il n'y avait pas de transfert technologique. Si Apple a quelque chose à transmettre, ça pas vraiment du côté technique.

Popular content is available in China, with Chinese subtitles within 8 hours of being broadcast almost anywhere in the world

Chinese and Japanese also seem unusual because there are relatively few links from pages in these languages to pages in English. This is despite the fact that Japanese and Chinese sites are the most popular non-English sites for English sites to link to. However, the number of sites in a language is a strong predictor of its `introversion', or fraction of off-site links to pages in the same language. Taking this into account shows that Chinese and Japanese webs are not unusually introverted given their size. In general, language webs with more sites are more introverted, perhaps due to better availability of content. 

"It is the first time for the country to set up a new district themed with the oceanic economy at the state level," said Fan Hengshan, director of the National Development and Reform Commission's regional economy division.

Mass demolition of old districts is something of a “normal” thing in China, but to people who imagine that the large-scale destruction of historic city centres is a thing of the relatively distant past, the fate of Tianjin’s old chinese city serves as a sobering case.

Visualising China is a JISC-funded project to allow users to explore and enhance more than 8000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.