A Chinese tycoon who bought 25 châteaux in Bordeaux worth an estimated total of €60 million is to stand trial in France on charges of money laundering and tax
Chinese investors have poured money into the small Lao town of Boten, believing a new railway would bring massive growth. But the hoped-for boom has yet to arrive.
Late last year, the circus came to Hengqin. Trained elephants from Thailand, Russian jugglers and monkies, Kazakh horses, Bengal tigers, and Cuban acrobats descended on the once-sleepy island near Macau for China’s “First International Circus Festival,” twelve days of death-defying stunts by humans and animals. And they were only the warm-up act.