China's rich spend big to celebrate Valentine's Day
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Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine's Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China.
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In a culture increasingly focused on personal wealth, many Chinese look to traditional fortunetelling tools to enrich them.
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They swamp the rails every year &#151; millions of travelers who brave crowds, germs, pickpockets and hours of standing on lurching trains to make it home for China's biggest family holiday.
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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 dramatically stepped up the appreciation of its currency, allowing it to push through an important level against the dollar for the first time.
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Few cities have created wealth faster than Shenzhen, China, but the costs of its phenomenal success stare out from every corner.
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China's currency hits its highest level high against the dollar in over a year, ahead of a US-China trade meeting.
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By Jackie Farwell Associated Press  NEW YORK - What could a Chinese dumpling maker and Mexican telecom mogul possibly have in common? They're among a record number of wealthy people who held the title of billionaire over the past year.
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Chinese movie "Tuya's Marriage", which explores the environmental and human cost of the country's rapid economic growth through the lives of Mongolian herders, won the Berlin film festival's top honor on Saturday.
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Spending by contestants and  supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly $4  billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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China's more than 700 million farmers are happier than before despite a growing wealth gap, while poor urban residents are being squeezed by rising food and property prices, a top government think tank said on Thursday.
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Millions are travelling home for Chinese New Year in what is called the world's biggest human migration.
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A new generation of affluent parents in China are trying to cement their childrenÂs place in a fast-emerging elite.
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The rich really do become richer -- here's how.
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Many countries are more generous than the United States in the number of public holidays.
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Tourist spending jumped nearly 5 percent last year, pumping an estimated $5 billion into the District's economy and cementing tourism as one of the key economic drivers in the city, according to a survey released yesterday.
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Wealthy couples in East China's Zhejiang Province who choose to flout family planning regulations by having two children could face fines of up to 1 million yuan ($129,000), provincial officials said on Wednesday .