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O nce a nation associated with its millions of bicycles, China is now the second-fastest-growing market for cars in the world. Millions of C...
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D aoism (originally spelled “Taoism” in English) is one of the four major native religions of China the other three being ancestor worship, ...
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The ancient kingdom of Siam—from the Sanskrit word Syama, meaning ‘dark’ or ‘brown’—was renamed Thailand in 1948. This was, in fact, the sec...