China and India are relative teetotalers as compared to their BRIC counterparts – Russia and Brazil when it comes to alcohol consumption. The two nations seem almost buddhist when compared to the rest of the world which is estimated to have consumed the...
Given that inflation in China is set to rage through 2011 – and that the rich-poor gap will yawn even wider – the possibility of a people power-style uprising cannot be discounted in China. With the winds of change blowing East from Egypt, China raised its...
The most auspicious time of the year for the Chinese, the Lunar New year or Spring Festival celebrates the bursting forth of new beginnings, reunion of families, eating symbolic yummy treats, watching CCTV’s annual New Year show and just basking in the warmth of...
Chinese born, American mother and Harvard Law professor Amy Chua’s book ‘Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother’ has seen what the Chinese describe as a helicopter rise in sales. A publicity stunt, printed excerpts of her new book in the Wall Street Journal...
As the titans meet in Washington to chart the course for the global economy, marking one of 2011’s defining diplomatic events, on day 1, America and China announced the conclusion of US$45 billion US export deals, including a massive US$19 billion contract for...
An interesting book by Tan Chung titled ‘Across the Himalayan Gap’ explains a lot of similarities between India and China. Raking up millennia, Chung delves into Indian and Chinese philosophy, symbolism, buddhism and ancient texts to explain how the...
