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Obama says U.S. wants to invest in infrastructure in Brazil

The U.S. president, Barack Obama said during his trip to Brazil, during the closure of the CEO Forum at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry — which brought together representatives of some major companies from both the United Stats and Brazil — that United States have an interest in investing in infrastructure in Brazil […]

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Brazil “more popular” according to BBC

The number of people who see Brazil as having a positive influence in the world is rising rapidly, according to a BBC World Service poll of 27 countries […]

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Living in China: Study finds middle class ‘unhappy’

Shanghai’s middle-class families are the least happy, according to the White Book of Happiness of Middle Class Families released by Manulife-Sinochem early this year […]

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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: creating the World’s Largest City

China is going for all the records these days. It recently completed the world’s longest high-speed rail line, only to follow that up with the world’s fastest train. For an encore, the Chinese are now preparing to create the world’s largest mega-city […]

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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization rate to be at 51.5% by 2015

China expects its urbanization rate to rise from 47.5 percent in 2010 to 51.5 percent by the end of 2015, with an average annual increase of four percent, according to a Chinese Government plan […]

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China, Technology, Innovation & the Environment: ambitious clean energy plans for next five years

China announced recently its goals of building 235 million kilowatts of power generation capacity from clean energy forms in the next five years, in an effort to trim the country’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels […]

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Education in China: Overseas education no longer paying off

Graduates who invested in an overseas education are having to lower their salary expectations once they return home to Shanghai […]

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Education in China: Survey reveals universities turning out billionaires

Shanghai’s universities rank second in the country behind Beijing as cradles of billionaires and business tycoons […]

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Education in China: Shanghai-funded graduate start-ups fail to deliver

Almost 60 percent of Shanghai-funded start-ups by graduates from a top university have failed or are suffering losses, according to a report issued recently […]

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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: Exhibition site in Shanghai will be world’s biggest

Shanghai is to build the world’s largest exhibition complex, the city’s urban planners announced recently […]