As western luxury brands rush to tap the Chinese market they are having to unlearn gender stereotypes associated with the products they sell […]
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Brazilians’ spending in France surged last year and in the first quarter of 2011 but the Russians remain the second biggest tourist spenders after the Chinese, according to a study published on recently […]
A report by Global Blue has found that Chinese visitors spent an average of 1,300 euros (US$1,900) every time they hit the shops […]
According to Gallup’s 2010 global wellbeing survey, only 12 percent of people on China’s mainland judged themselves to be thriving, the same level as countries such as Afghanistan and Yemen […]
Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding […]
The Spain Pavilion, designed by architect Benedetta Tagliabue, cleverly mixes the concept of sustainability —represented by the 8,524 wicker panels, a traditional material and a handcraft technique used both in China and in Spain […]
The pavilion comprises 20 functional modules of different shapes representing Italy’s 20 regions, and is the largest foreign state pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo […]
Shanghai topped major cities around the world in 2009 by posting the biggest annual price increase for houses located in prime areas as China’s quick recovery from the global recession helped boost capital gains, according to a joint wealth report by Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank […]
A young Chinese hacker talks to a New York Times reporter about his world of trolling for information that may one day be worth money […]
More than 20,000 Chinese Students packed the Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall during an annual education fair by overseas schools […]