In a Boston Globe story, the man who was carjacked -- a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur identified only as Danny -- described his 90-minute ordeal, from when a man brandishing a silver handgun got into his Mercedes to when he ran for his life into a Mobil gas station's supply room.
Curiously, though, Venus does not even have a proper Chinese name--only a nearly meaningless phonetic transliteration from English.
The Dutch, bronze medallists at Sydney, and the fast-improving Chinese were the only teams in the 10-nation event to win all their preliminary matches.
According to reports cited this week by iFeng (Chinese), e-commerce only accounted for about 2.6% of the total revenue in the Chinese luxury market last year, but owing to changing consumer attitudes towards online shopping, rising brand awareness and improved supply chains, the industry is projected to grow around 20% annually.
For instance, only Chinese-based technology can be used in national standards and in government purchased products.
Shares of mainland car companies bucked the broad weakness, following news that only Chinese-branded vehicles would qualify for use by the government under a preliminary 2012 list of procurement choices released during the weekend.
Grape wine needs to be only 50% grape wine (the rest can be made from other fruits), and Chinese wine needs to be only 50% from Chinese-produced juice.
And just around the corner of here is the Khoo Kongsi, the most spectacular assembly hall in Penang, a testament to the influence the Chinese have had on this island's culture (Penang is the only majority-Chinese state in Malaysia).
Repsol will be using a Chinese-built drilling rig that only recently left Singapore for Cuban waters.
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Yet early Chinese OEMs offered only low-tier phones with no attempts at branding or differentiation.
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This year there was no test of memorised basic knowledge in the Chinese language exam in Shanghai - only reading comprehension and creative writing.
Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.
Wang Tsai-kuei, one of the chief educators at the Hua Shan Forum, says his own children's grades improved markedly -- not only in Chinese studies but in all subjects.
This trend will only accelerate as the middle class expands in mid-sized and smaller cities, because only one-fifth of lower-income Chinese currently own diamond jewelry.
Liang Wen-Chong is the only Chinese golfer to reach the top 100 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
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In the mid-1990s I found myself the only non-North Korean in a class studying Chinese in northeast China.
Chinese and Indian venture only has a 10-year history compared with 30-plus in the Valley.
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They may use only state-approved, Chinese-designed encryption ware, which they must register with the commission.
Google has yet to bring its U.S. success to China--only about one in five Chinese Web searches starts at the site.
Brazil is the third-largest target for Chinese investment, trailing only Australia and the U.S., though Nigeria and Iran also boast large engineering contracts.
The China Art Gallery--a Sinified socialist-style building managed by the Chinese Artists Association and, at the time, only a few steps from the Ministry of Culture--functions as China's national museum of modern art.
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Shanghai students comfortably pipped the South Koreans, Singaporeans and Hong Kong Chinese, with only eccentric Finns bucking the Western-slacker trend.
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An industry that once spawned at least four Chinese billionaires now lays claim to only one, GCL-Poly Energy Chairman Zhu Gongshan.
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Chinese media said the first body had been found - but only 36 hours after the landslip - and that the chances of finding survivors were slim.
To fertilize the industry Qualcomm had agreed that Chinese manufacturers would pay only a 2.65%-per-handset royalty, compared with the roughly 5.5% that Koreans pay on their exports.
If lower-priced Chinese tourbillon watches flood the market then it is only a matter of time before this sentiment spreads.
Dr Mahathir's coalition still won a thumping victory, but only with the help of the ethnic-Chinese and indigenous voters from the two big states in Borneo.
Google's Chinese store for its mobile operating system - the most popular globally - only offers free apps.
Thirteen Chinese deals are in the pipeline, but only three have top-tier underwriters.
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