Not Made in China Anymore
In the coming years, China will shed more than 85 million manufacturing jobs, experts say.
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Niche Biz: Smelly Postcards
Zhu Jingxuan, a student in China has created a device to capture the aroma of food on a postcard. The ‘food printer’ uses a camera to take the picture and a smell extractor to collect the aroma simultaneously, then prints a postcard with aroma ink. China Daily has the details: During a trip, when people
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Elderly Are Big Biz in China
NY Times: At the Happy Community housing development in Beijing, China’s largest property developer is setting aside 24,000 square meters for active seniors to test whether this rapidly aging nation will pay for Western-style retirement living. The company, China Vanke, thinks there is “ample room for development” in the senior care sector, a spokesman said,
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Chinese Inmates Farm for Gold
Gold farming a series of monotonous tasks in online games like World of Warcraft that can be done to generate in-game gold that can then be sold for real dollars. This is the first I’ve heard of slave labor being used. The Next Web: Chinese inmates in Jixi labor camp are reportedly forced to slay
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Panda Fertilized Tea
In China, in the heart of panda country, a resourceful business has created “panda poo tea”. There’s no actual excrement in the tea, instead, the green tea is grown on a farm fertilized exclusively with panda manure. The Telegraph has more: “I have started growing the tea on around three acres of land,” said Mr
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Brain Boosting IVs for Students
WorldCrunch: Earlier this week, within hours a photo taken at Xiaogan City High School in Hubei Province China was circulated all over China. In the photo some students were in class reviewing their homework. What is unusual in the picture is that more than half of the 50 or so students had an intravenous infusion
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Chopsticks: Made in USA
Nearly everything today is “Made in China”; nearly everything that is, except for two million chopsticks that are made each day in Americus, Georgia at Georgia Chopsticks. Business is booming, and the company plans to increase production from 2 million to 10 million chopsticks per day. Video below. More info here and here.
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World’s Largest Shopping Mall is Empty
The Globe and Mail: When the New South China Mall opened to great fanfare in 2006, it immediately became the world’s largest shopping centre by floor space, knocking the West Edmonton Mall into second place. Newsweek magazine believed it to be one of the seven “new wonders of the world,†visitors are reminded in a
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The Poor Man’s Lamborghini
Inventorspot: What you get is what you see… and less. The DIY “Shanzai” (imitation) Lambo is based on a second-generation Toyota MR2, a mid-engine automobile made from 1989 through 1999. The model W20 MR2 displays a noticeable resemblance to the Ferrari 348 and the Ferrari F355, so much so that it acquired the nickname “poor
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Asian Carp is a HUGE Business Opportunity
Although the asian carp is an invasive species of fish in the United States, that could potentially destroy the ecosystem of the Mississippi and the Great Lakes, Bloomberg reports that it’s actually a business opportunity for somone: Sometimes, Chinese netizens pay more attention to a U.S. news story than Americans do. President Barack Obama’s Feb.
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