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Are more Chinese netizens using chat apps and VoIP than speaking on their mobile phones? The latest financial results from China Mobile appear to show traditional phone calls are not keeping pace with modernity. Chinese telecom operator China Mobile published its annual performance for 2015, stating that the company achieved operating revenue of CNY668.3 billion in 2015, a year-on-year increase of 2.6%; and its profit attributable to shareholders ...
Chinese Internet video company Ku6.com announced that their board of directors has received an initial non-binding privatization offer from controlling shareholder Shanda. According to Ku6, Shanda offered to buy Ku6 for USD0.0108 per ordinary share, which equals USD1.08 per ADS. This proposal values Ku6 at about USD51.5 million, which represents a premium of 54% compared with its ADS closing price on January 29, 2016. Meanwhile, ...
Camel Train - Cable Beach, Australia Photographer : Lauren Bath
Zou Chuan'an He is now a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a visiting professor of the Art Department of Hunan Normal University. He was also an honorary president of the Loudi Literary Association of Hunan, president of the Loudi Artists Association and director of the Loudi Painting Institute. In addition, he is rated as a national first class artist. Zou was fond ...
Lang Shining Giuseppe Castiglione, also known as Lang Shining (郎世寧), was born on July 19, 1688, in the central San Marcellino district of Milan, Italy, the site of a renowned Botteghe degli Stampator painting studio. As a youth, Castiglione learned to paint from Carlo Cornara at the studio, and he also came under the influence of the famous painter Andrea Pozzo, a member of the Society of Jesus at Trento. In 1707, at the age of 19, Castiglione formally entered ...