Space Invaders

When China blew their aging satellite out of the sky last year, the US bellowed about their displeasure. Now, barely a year later, the US has done the same thing - Lost Laowai's Steven tackles the hypocrisy of it all.

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Ensure Chinese New Year Goes Off With A Bang! 1 year 42 weeks ago

Steven, Lost Laowai's newest writer, has some excellent tips on how to make sure this Chinese New Year is brought in with the appropriate usage of fireworks. A great read for us expats, and for the locals as well!

Two Chinese Business People will Fly into Space Next Year 2 years 4 weeks ago

Two Chinese, one man and one woman, whose names have been withheld, have signed on to pay $200,000 to take a 3.5 hour space flight on Virgin Galactic next year.

Virgin Galactic plans to ..

China shoots for moon later this year 1 year 27 weeks ago

China set two more ambitious goals for its space program this week, announcing it will launch an unmanned lunar orbiter in the second half of 2007 and a probe to Mars by 2009, according to reports from the Xinhua news agency.

The lunar orbiter, scheduled to launch later this year, will take 3-D images of the moon's surface. If successful, it will pave the way for a lunar landing mission, Xinhua quoted National Space Administration director Sun Laiyan as saying Sunday in a speech at Beijing Jiaotong University.

Asia's space race heats up as China heads for moon 1 year 5 weeks ago

BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed by the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise.

China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020.

NY Times: China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving U.S. 1 year 45 weeks ago

Space race anyone?

Common staffing mistakes in China, and how to avoid them 1 year 16 weeks ago

It's a slow news day - besides that whole one-year-to-go thing - and while we were tempted to run with this story from the Shanghai Daily, the better angels of our nature prevailed and instead, we decided to republish an excerpt from our popular “Common mistakes and misperceptions when investing in China - and how to avoid them” China Briefing issue from July of last year.

The Party Line, Round 1 1 year 5 weeks ago

Join Ping, Mary-Sue, Monkey as they play "What's My Party Line?" in this humorous first post from Lost Laowai's newest writer. Funny stuff indeed.

Richest Man in China to Lose His Number One Ranking 2 years 7 weeks ago

Last year Forbes ranked the 400 richest Chinese. For the second year in a row, Larry Rong Zhijian, head of CITIC Pacific Group was the leader. At the time he was worth an estimated $1.6 billion.

This year...last year's numbers four and....

12-Year-Old Chongqing Girl Raped & Imprisoned Has Baby 6 weeks 1 day ago

Young Chinese girl meets 18-year-old young man on internet, soon forced to stay with him for over a year. Judge blames parents for not teaching her properly.