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Some of you may remember him for chasing the Pickle King of Islamistan back to Britain in 1934. Others may remember him as Stalin's hand pick for Communist Party membership... who then flipped to the Kuomintang in 1942 and executed Chairman Mao's little brother.

In a world where Chinese manufacturing is king, a soon-to-be laowai wonders what gift to give the nation that has (or rather, makes) everything.

There are a few basic considerations online marketers must take into consideration when writing for international readers.

A collection of headlines from the New York Times archive between March 1933, when news of a Muslim uprising in western China reached New York, and January 1934, when an independent East Turkestan was established with it's capital in Kashgar. Those must have been heady days for the vile splittists and saboteurs who to this very day have not resigned themselves to defeat!

China is a major force in all but one of the five major areas of cultural products recognized by UNESCO -- recorded media, printed media, visual arts, audiovisual media and heritage goods.

Described as the best of her generation by former Champion Billie-Jean King, Henin is the reigning World no 1, and French & US Open Champion. For emotional reasons she has quit at the top of her game.

The tennis world’s loss, is also the loss of the Beijing Olympic Games.

BEIJING (AP) - D'oh! China has banished Homer Simpson, Pokemon and Mickey Mouse from prime time. Beginning Sept. 1, regulators have barred foreign cartoons from TV from 5 to 8 p.m. in an effort to protect China's struggling animation studios, news reports said Sunday. The move allows the Monkey King and his Chinese pals to get the top TV viewing hours to themselves.

"We pray that a Chinese Martin Luther King will arise from the church in China," say Christian leaders of the new Human Rights Protection Movement (HRPM).

These lawyers, pastors, journalists, and human rights leaders across China are trying out the strategies of the historic American civil rights movement, using litigation, media publicity, and nonviolent protests.

It used to be that Tokyo was king of 'flower power' in Asia.

Not any more...Shanghai claims the crown this year with more than 600 million flowers sold in the city this year.