Huawei's latest calling card

Returning from vacation in China to celebrate the new year, Zhang Jiangbo must have felt like a Santa Claus in Tanzania.

Healthcare's Chinese elixir

Hospitals and companies in the healthcare industry in the United Kingdom, which has one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the world, are looking to take their experience and technologies to China as the nation's soaring urban population demands more and more in medical treatment and preventative care.

Feeling the pulse in China

Healthcare and pharmaceutical firms across Europe are strengthening their presence in China, driven by the country's high demand for medicine and the improving environment for research and development.

Big Panda v Little Rabbit story

It was no contest. In the summer of 2008, Hollywood's animation studios kicked their Chinese counterparts out of the ring in technique and power. To add insult to injury, they did it in true Chinese style.

It's game on for mobile phone users

Tianjin developer gets head start on even playing field for gaming on the move

Quotable

"More than three-fourths of Germany's foreign investments came from the West. Asian investments account for the remaining 25 percent, where China is one of the most important Asian investors."

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Making sense of the merger

Integration planning after merger and acquisition deals has always been a tough challenge for companies. But the same challenge can also be a winning opportunity, going by the success achieved by a state-owned Chinese company in Europe.

Moving up a gear

Like most people in Africa, Cisse Ouattara, an automobile dealer, had never heard of Beiqi Foton Motor Co, or seen the trucks that the Chinese company is best known for, until a few years ago.

Slow drip to China

With a depressed market in Europe and the US, African coffee producers have been urged to concentrate more on the Chinese market, where a growing taste for arabica and robusta is gradually turning the tea-loving country into a big coffee importer.

Go froth and multiply

Word of mouth holds Uganda's best hopes of turning the increasingly sophisticated Chinese palate toward buying more of its predominantly robusta coffee.

The lost art of a gallery

The winter has passed, but the chill still lingers in Beijing's art districts. With several local and foreign galleries shutting down in the past two years, shadows of doubt are falling on the capital's glittering status as an Asian art center.