This may not be good news for the automakers of America but we are living in an increasingly globalized world. And what that means for the auto industry is that we will soon seen more and more inexpensive China and India made cars on North American roads.
Looking at what’s coming out of China it’s hard to understand why we pay so much for cars here. Just looking at the new 2009 M1 by Brilliance I think BMW. The car features a completely redesigned 1.8L turbocharged 170hp engine. The chassis was designed with the help of Porch and the rest …read more

For anime and manga lovers who are old enough to remember Saint Seiya or Knights of the Zodiac, they should be glad that a MMORPG centered around Saint Seiya called Saint Seiya Online will be released by Sega this year.

In China, the online game was named 圣斗士OL and is already in beta. From the prizes (from PSP to MP3 players) that the Chinese players can get during this beta testing period, we reckon that Saint Seiya Online will attract new fans who have no idea who is Athena or Masami Kurumada.
Image: 圣斗士OL

With the Twilight phenomenon sweeping across the globe, we can see vampires appear almost anywhere around the world. It is not a surprise that the class of vampires is introduced in a new China’s MMORPG called Lianyu Online (炼狱OL), loosely translated to Purgatory Online.

Players got to choose from classes such as vampires, fallen angels, elves, fighters and more. Just like World of Warcraft, quests, roleplay and PvP elements are evident in Lianyu Online.
I wonder if the vampires possess money-sucking blood-sucking ability.
Image: Lianyu Online

Sebastian Vettel likes starting from the pole position. He has had his best results when doing so, winning from the pole position last year in Monza. On Sunday afternoon at the Shanghai Formula One circuit in China, he ran fast and straight from the pole position and he and his teammate, Mark Webber finished first and second to give team owner Dietrick Mateschitz, his first-two finish for Red Bull Racing.
The race started in wet and windy conditions that saw the Mercedez-Benz safety car lead the race for the first 8 laps, something that has been happening a lot this season …read more

The flag will drop on the Grand Prix of Shanghai at the Shanghai International Circuit in a week or so, and the drivers and teams have probably been contemplating the winding turns and high-speed straights designed into the amazing architecture of the circuit. The track combines a nice variety of high-speed corners and slow turns that put demands on the grip of the cars, and throws a few wrenches into the mix. The most challenging and enjoyable corners for both the racers and the drivers will probably be turns six and seven, sweeping left and right hand turns. The Shanghai …read more

Just four months after hosting the spectacular 2008 Summer Games, China has set her eyes on hosting another Games–this time the Winter event. According to Reuters, Harbin (pictured above), the capital of China’s Heilongjiang Province in the northeastern part of the country, is considering bidding on the 2018 Games. Harbin, a bustling town of five million residents, had unsuccessfully bid on the 2010 Games, which were awarded to Vancouver.
Harbin will face competition from declared candidates, Munich, Germany and Grenoble, Nice, and Annecy in France.
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Liu Xiang of China, the 2007 world champion and 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 110m hurdles event, will be having surgery to remove calcifications around his Achilles tendon in the United States, his coach announced on Friday. The 24-year-old was forced to withdraw from the 110m hurdles event in Beijing and hobbled off of the track in obvious pain. He has been in the United States for a week consulting with physicians. No date was given for the surgery, but the coach indicated the prognosis was very good.
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The controversy surrounding the ages of the Gold-Medal-winning Chinese womens gymnastic team is continuing. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) are examining whether He Kexin and Yang Yilin were truly the required 16 years required to compete at the Olympics. They have also expanded their inquiry to include the Chinese competitors at the 2000 Sydney Games, where China won a Bronze Medal. They are examining whether Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao on that squad were old enough to compete.
A spokeswoman for the FIG, Emmanuelle Moreau told the Associated Press on Wednesday at the inquiry “is a work in progress. Until …read more

China’s athletes earned more than twice the number of Medals than Great Britain, who ended the Paralympic Games in second place in the Medal count. Chinese athletes, including runner Li Yansong pictured above, were awarded a total of 211 Medals (89 Gold, 70 Silver, and 52 Bronze). Great Britain earned a total of 102 (42 Gold, 29 Silver, and 31 Bronze). The United States ended the Games with 99 Medals and Ukraine was fourth with 74 total Medals. Canada was awarded 50 Medals, putting them in seventh place overall.
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Amid ceremony and pagentry, the Paralympic torch was lit this morning in Beijing at the city’s historic Temple of Heaven. Lighting the cauldron was Jin Jang, a 24-year-old Paralympic fencer. Jang was also the athlete that “protected” the Olympic torch in Paris during the protests there.
The lighting of the Paralympic torch precedes the domestic Paralympic torch relay that will travel to Xian on Friday and then around the southeast and central regions of China before returning to Beijing for the Paralympic opening ceremony on September 6.
The Paralympic Games will be held September 6 – 17. Founded in 1960, the Paralympics …read more