Week In China

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Internet & Tech, Talking Point

Too close for comfort?

Apple and Foxconn had the perfect corporate marriage. Is it now fraying?

Two of the firms that have featured most regularly in Week in China over the past four years aren’t even mainland Chinese: Apple, from the US, and Foxconn, which is headquartered in Taiwan. That…

Energy & Resources

Market failure

Shock as a Hong Kong exchange closes

Exchanges are like casinos, places where the house rarely loses. So it is odd that the headlines in Hong Kong this week were about an exchange that’s just gone bust. In a dramatic…

Banking & Finance

Insurance scam

Fine sees Ping An hit the headlines for the wrong reasons

For an industry that’s all about risk, there can’t be many brands more reassuring than Ping An. After all, its name means ‘safe and sound’ which is exactly the sort of message an…

Too close for comfort?

Market failure

Insurance scam

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Economy

Money go round

How accurate is Chinese trade data?

Rail & Infrastructure

Justified expenses?

China Railway Construction pilloried for huge ‘entertainment’ budget

Chinese Character

The people’s banker

The man who brought consumer banking to China departs CMB

Sport

Hooping mad

Basketball owner prevented from selling team

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Chinese starlets descend on Cannes Film Festival Entertainment

New restrictions on what teachers can tell students Society

Why Milton Keynes has Hunan planners excited And Finally

Last week's stories

Why Warren Buffett’s Chinese devotees are watching his every move Economy, Talking Point

As EU announces solar tariffs on Chinese exports, some Europeans cry foul Energy & Resources

Coal bosses on the list, as resellers jostle for bandwidth from telcos Telecoms

Xi Jinping wants to solve Middle East problem China and the World

Built by Chinese, for Chinese, and it’s in New York Property

Washington gets jittery about Beijing’s goals for satellite industry Space Programme

Baidu makes online video acquisition. Why? Internet & Tech

Wedded bliss Planet China

Chinese fans react to Sir Alex’s retirement And Finally

Group-buying websites do a brisk trade in cinema tickets Entertainment

What’s a poisoning in China got to do with Obama? Society

Revelations about top director’s offspring renew debate on family planning Society

Duzhan aotou History Lessons

Hainan high jinks World of Weibo

Headlines from China this week...

1	Xi Jinping will meet with President Obama in California next month
2	HSBC China Manufacturing PMI Index fell to a seven-month low in May
3	A special envoy of North Korea held talks with top officials in Beijing
4	Guangzhou said rice samples contained dangerously high levels of cadmium