China's Shaolin monastery becomes money-making machine in era of tourism
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Every morning as a new fleet of buses unloads tourists at the Shaolin temple, Li Yaojin thinks wistfully about the peaceful days two decades ago when he first arrived as a Buddhist novice.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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ZHUOZHOU, China  - Zhang Yulong and his brothers thought they'd be rolling in cash if they'd been able to borrow from a bank to finance a string of business ideas.
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How a business-school professor and consultant for Mattel would turn ââMade in Chinaââ into something other than a curse.
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The phenomenon of &quot;death by success&quot; -- in which a website is brought down by strong user interest -- is well known online but has taken a new twist in China.
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With the Olympics as a launch pad and amid a rising global fascination in all things Chinese, China is expected to replace France as the world&#39;s top tourism destination by 2014, according to experts.
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MGM Mirage Inc , the world's No.2 casino operator, will open a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven increasingly crowded by global players.
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Down a short alley in the sprawling, tourist-mobbed 798 art district in Beijing is a tiny shop that serves as one of the centers of Chinaâs small but thriving experimental music scene.
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Taipei, once an Asian business magnet for foreign visitors unable to enter China because it was closed to the West, has faded in importance as China has opened its borders to tourists and business travelers.
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Huaneng Power brings power to the people and profits to investors.
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China's 500 largest firms have seen their combined profits rise 23% to $80.4bn last year, researchers find.
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China&#39;s booming real estate, information technology and food processing industries are the Communist nation&#39;s top three profit-making sectors, contributing much to the annual Forbes list of China&#39;s richest 200 people.
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China's software industry saw an increase in revenue of more than 20 percent last year, boosted by particularly swift growth in income from services, state media reported Tuesday.
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There are fears for the tourist industry in Harbin, China, with the famous ice festival an apparent victim of rising temperatures.
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LHASA, China  - In the dusty bowels of the Tibet  capital's huge Potala Palace, a handful of laborers slowly chip  away at ancient plaster holding together the 13-story  building's crumbling foundations.
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China, already a manufacturing  powerhouse, is flexing its financial muscles as companies based  there snatch up famous-name products from established companies  in the United States and Europe looking to divest low-margin  businesses.
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At a dusty border crossing on  a remote section of the China-Vietnam border, Puzhai looks more  like a railway crossing than an entry point into the world&#39;s  most resource-ravenous economy.