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Wenlei MaTV and film critic

Wenlei Ma is the TV and film critic for news.com.au where she writes reviews, features and news about movies and streaming. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved Top Critic, she is a weekly contributor on RN Breakfast, a regular on ABC Nightlife and her film reviews are syndicated in The Sunday Telegraph. Wenlei has been a journalist for more than a decade, has been published in Empire, AdNews and was featured on ABC TV’s China Tonight.

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Your colleague is getting paid more

YOU think you’re on even terms with your colleagues? Think again. The person sitting next to you is probably earning 24 per cent more than you.

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Invisible Facebookers making $36k

FACEBOOK may offer to its employees great perks but not everyone is treated equal. Meet the invisible staffers that work 15 hour days but only earn $36,000 a year.

Behind the scenes at Facebook HQ

WHAT’S really like to work at Facebook? With its amazing perks, what are you expected to give in return? We go behind the scenes to find out.

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Pic shows: Liu Jingchong wanted to live the life of an isolated hermit in his hut. It may not seem like it, but this remote hut in the middle of nowhere on the side of a Chinese mountain is home to one of China's wealthiest men. Liu Jingchong, 38, was until recently the managing director and main shareholder in one of the country's biggest textile manufacturing firms that had its headquarters in the city of Foshan in south-eastern China’s Guangdong province. He said:

The multi-millionaire who gave it all up for a hut

HE WAS worth millions and millions of dollars. But a car accident changed his whole outlook on life and he now lives in a hut in the mountains.

At Work

Why your lazy co-worker is the best

YOU might think the diligent, conscientious type are the best ones to work with. But you could be wrong. Here’s why your lazy desk buddy is a keeper.

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(FILES) In this October 9, 2014 file photo, Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk unveils the dual engine chasis of the new Tesla 'D' model which is a faster and all-wheel-drive version of the Model S electric sedan at the Hawthorne Airport in Los Angeles. High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has reportedly added global Internet access from satellites to his vision of a future alongside sporty electric cars and private space exploration. The billionaire behind auto-maker Tesla and the SpaceX program is working on the project with satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler, who spent some time devoted to a similar mission at Google, according to a report November 10, 2014 in the Wall Street Journal. Musk and Wyler are trying to devise a feasible and relatively low-cost way to put about 700 satellites, each weighing less than 250 pounds, into orbit to provide wireless Internet anywhere on the planet, the Journal reported. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON/FILES

The eccentric ideas of one billionaire

HE’S a genius billionaire with his fingers in online, space and electric cars. But he’s also said some pretty out-there stuff. Here are the best lines.

Economy

05/09/2012 WIRE: U.S. flag and China's flag flutter in winds at a hotel in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. But as she began her meetings here, China questioned the stated neutrality of the United States. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) Pic. Ap

The world as you know it is about to change

AMERICA has been on top of the world for decades. Its military, economic and cultural power has been undisputed. But is that all about to change?

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FILE - This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. The leader of the Islamic State group said it will fight to the last man, in a strident audio recording released on social media networks Thursday, Nov. 13, that was his first public statement since a U.S.-led alliance launched airstrikes against his fighters in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)

IS to create its own currency

THE terrorist group IS has a whole new set of financial goals. It wants to establish its own currency system with jihadi coins.

Leaders

Jack Ma, left, executive chairman of Alibaba Group, watches the Los Angeles Lakers play the Houston Rockets during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Why Jack’s unhappy with his $28 billion

WOULD you be happy with a $28 billion bounty? China’s richest man, Jack Ma, is finding it all too much to deal with.

8.11.2014. Nick Hutchinson , Fleurieu Milk Company with Halal yogurt at their Myponga property and coldroom. pic tait schmaal...

The people waging war on halal

THERE’s a pervasive conspiracy theory floating out there. That all ‘real’ Australians should stop buying halal food or you’ll end up funding terrorists.

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