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Pompidou on the Bund

“We have to have a dialogue. It doesn’t mean we could hang all the works we wanted to hang”
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Serge Lasvignes, president of Centre Pompidou, discusses the opening last week of a sister venue in Shanghai. The 22,000 square metre museum features 100 works in its permanent exhibition, but Lasvignes admitted to the Financial Times that ...

Confusion, then chickens

Confusion, then chickens
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Minor mistakes with medical records can have major consequences. For a luckless woman living in Nanjing, a faulty report nearly brought an end to her marriage. Surnamed Li, the 30 year-old had been married for six years when a report from a ...

Courting more controversy

The NBA’s troubles continue in China. The latest kerfuffle for the basketball giant happened during a game streamed live by…
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

The NBA’s troubles continue in China. The latest kerfuffle for the basketball giant happened during a game streamed live by Tencent Sports, featuring the LA Lakers and the Miami Heat last Saturday. Coverage was suddenly halted by the ...

A new headmaster

A school in Zhejiang tests ‘brainwave’ monitors
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Focus 1 is a wireless headband that claims to offer “real-time brain wave visualisation”. According to its website, the brand employs an “optimised, NASA-inspired” algorithm. Whether it is actually capable of monitoring ...

Stupid skipper
Nov 8, 2019 (WiC 473)

China is so short of pilots that it has poached nearly 500 of them from South Korea (see this week's "Aviation" section). But that hasn’t stopped one of the country’s airlines from banning a local pilot for life and suspending his co-pilots ...

Space, the next frontier

The world is no longer enough to fulfill Chinese ambitions, it seems. Forty years after the launch of the first…
Nov 8, 2019 (WiC 473)

The world is no longer enough to fulfill Chinese ambitions, it seems. Forty years after the launch of the first special economic zone in Shenzhen, news this week that policymakers are promoting the idea of a special zone in space seemed a ...

Too much transparency

Government orders safety review after building binge of glass bridges
Nov 8, 2019 (WiC 473)

There are 2,300 of them across China: they’re transparent, rather terrifying and, if the reports are to be believed, not totally safe. Glass-bottomed bridges – many of them suspended across scenic ravines – were supposed to be a terrific ...

Relying on horsepower

Relying on horsepower
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

When internet celebrity Luo Yonghao was upset at the poor performance of his Siemens fridge, he hit on a unique solution. He laid down a few of the brand’s fridges outside Siemens China headquarters and smashed them up with a sledgehammer. ...

Many of the world’s best boxers have taunted their opponents – such as the time Muhammad Ali brought along a…
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

Many of the world’s best boxers have taunted their opponents – such as the time Muhammad Ali brought along a mop and bucket and declared George Chuvalo to be “nothing but a washerwoman”. But even seasoned boxing reporters were taken aback ...

Arguing with his wife on the internet
Nov 1, 2019 (WiC 472)

Back in February, Li Guoqing, the co-founder of e-commerce firm Dangdang, announced that he had resigned from the company he started with his wife Peggy Yu back in 1999. He wrote that he had given up his stake in the platform once touted as ...

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