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The UAE's tourism pitch to Chinese luxury travelers is largely the same pitch it makes to Western tourists, albeit with a much broader outreach effort. Read More

Not to be outdone by Audi's China-only, US$421,925 R8 coupe, Swedish hypercar manufacturer Koenigsegg hopes to tickle the fancy of the Chinese buyer with its One:1 concept. Read More

As in nearby Dubai, hotel and tour operators in Abu Dhabi are rolling out the red carpet to attract more Chinese outbound tourists. Read More

With trips by Chinese outbound tourists expected to grow to 80 million trips this year, up from 70 million in 2011 and 57.4 million in 2010, destinations from Singapore to Spain continue to court this increasingly important and emerging demographic. Read More

While business continues to boom in America, as Harry Winston CEO Frederic de Narp recently said, demand for very large diamonds comes "above all from China." Read More

Created in 1999 by Daniel Barenboim and the late literary scholar Edward Said, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra brings together young musicians from Israel, Palestine and a number of Arab states to foster intercultural collaboration on the universal language of music. Read More

Chinese manufacturers have made a strong push in the last few years to move up the value chain, with the ultimate goal being increased exports not only to emerging countries, but also developed markets like the U.S., the eurozone and Japan. Read More

The Financial Times has posted an interview with Edward Dolman, Christie's International chief executive, in which Dolman explains the eastward shift in the auction industry. Read More

One of the fascinating aspects of China's growth and commercialization over the past 30 years is the opening of new niche markets that did not previously exist in the Mainland, even pre-1949. One of these niche markets is whisky. Though foreign liquors have entered the country at a rapidly growing rate for decades, whisky failed to gain a foothold in the country until the late 1980s. Read More