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By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Beijing Bureau Chief BEIJING – China is greeting the financial crisis with a sense of alarm.”The economic crisis has arrived, are you ready?” asked one Chinese blogger recently.
It was one of the many tell-tale signs that the tumult is beginning to touch China’s once booming economy.
While Beijing has recently [...]

With a major gender imbalance as a result of China’s one-child policy, bachelors get their own day. NBC’s Adrienne Mong follows John, a 30-year-old computer programmer, in his quest for love at a speed-dating event in Beijing.  

VIDEO: Checking out singles on China’s “Bachelor Day”…(read more)

If there’s one thing you can’t overstate, it’s how much the Chinese people loooooved the Olympics. So it was kind of expected that Chinese fireworks makers would capitalize on the magic of the Opening Ceremonies by selling similar DIY pyrotechnics. This Chinese New Year, watch for the Bird’s Nest series of fireworks going off [...]