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Scion puts fashion firm in the lap of luxury

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Tomaso Trussardi is just 29 years old, but he reckons he is old and sophisticated enough to know a thing or two about helping run a multimillon-euro company.

China's wellspring of demand

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'Making the planet sustainable is the best job on earth," says the French utility company Suez Environnement on its website's homepage.

Where the heart is

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At the recent Beijing International Property Expo, Wang Jing's eyes widened. At last, her dreams of finding the ideal home for her family were materializing. The island country of Cyprus, which had a booth at the expo, offered a list of properties at steep discounts. She didn't know much about Cyprus, but that wasn't important.

Hedge your housing bets, analysts say

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For the nouveau riche in China with a portfolio of real estate assets, there is a certain appeal about buying overseas property. There are no limitations from banks on home loans, the returns are stable, ownership is permanent and some countries even throw in a package deal for a citizenship with purchase.

Quotable

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"California is a good target for Chinese investors because we are looking for infrastructural development such as hotels and a baseball stadium."

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Continental delight proves hard to resist

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For Chinese looking to buy property overseas, Britain and the United States are the shop windows they have always looked in first, but prospective buyers are now increasingly casting their eyes in other directions.

City defies the slowdown

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While China's auto market has slowed drastically from its heydays of less than two years ago - it grew 45 percent in 2009 and 32 percent in 2010 - at least one city in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has weathered the storm. Liuzhou, a landlocked city in South China, was once widely known for its Phoebe timber used to make coffins. As they used to say in the city, "born in Hangzhou, dine in Guangzhou, and die in Liuzhou". But the city, with a population of 3.75 million located approximately 250 km from the provincial capital of Nanning, has over the past decade resurrected its economy with its numerous factories producing cars, trucks, sport-utility vehicles and auto parts.

Going the extra yard

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Going overseas is no longer as easy as loading the products on a ship and selling them quickly in the Middle East or North Africa.

The open arms of Liuzhou

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In 2002, Christine O'Sullivan came to Shanghai for her first trip to China on a business trip for General Motors and "fell in love" with the country.

A real estate tale of two cities

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Paris looks to steal a march on London as the key target for chinese property investors

Power surge for placid lake

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Powerboat racing is revving up as a sport ready to make big waves in China.

Supply chain's missing links

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With domestic consumption at the forefront of China's economic future, Jim Tompkins says logistics companies need to sharpen their strategy when moving products from A to B.

Transformer challenge

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In China, Thomas Rabe, chief executive officer of German media giant Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA, prefers to be called by his Chinese name Han Tao, which he says makes him feel more of a local.

No child too young

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For the first time, Mandarin is becoming widely available in the European curriculum with a more fun approach.

Novel approaches to learning Chinese

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Parents looking to give their children a head start when it comes to learning Chinese today have access to an unprecedented range of resources, including books, apps and podcasts.

Quotable

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"The image has significantly restrained Chinese companies' price negotiations and their overseas expansion."

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Pioneering school shows the way forward

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As any teacher will tell you, there are few tougher challenges in life than keeping your students awake first thing on a Monday morning.