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Ukrainian dating club promises brides from the Belt and Road
Oct 20, 2017 (WiC 384)

The origins of American “mail order brides” date back 400 years to the time when the Virginia Company was having trouble keeping its colony at Jamestown populated. As the settlers were primarily male, many would return to England to find ...

Guizhou firm cracks toilet seat market
Oct 6, 2017 (WiC 383)

Chinese consumers like to import their toilet seat from the East and it seems Europeans have a similar preference. While the Chinese favour higher-tech bum-warming seats from Japan, the Europeans are more drawn towards simpler designs from ...

A share too far for the ‘sharing economy’: sex dolls
Sep 29, 2017 (WiC 382)

China’s passion for the “sharing economy” has created plenty of success stories, but an even greater number of more dubious contenders (see WiC369). And one firm appears to have pushed the envelope a little too far with its offering of ...

Shenzhen’s plan to protect its ‘heritage’ landmarks
Sep 22, 2017 (WiC 381)

In Chinese financial jargon plots of real estate sold for record prices are called diwang, or ‘kings of land’. The first ‘kingmaker’ was a Hong Kong affiliate of Japanese construction firm Kumagai Gumi, which bought a prime ...

Cheesemakers chastened by import ban
Sep 15, 2017 (WiC 380)

At last week’s BRICS Summit President Xi Jinping promised not to “move anyone’s cheese” – a reference to Spencer Johnson’s motivational fable Who Moved My Cheese? While cheese isn’t traditionally eaten in China, it does ...

Media looks for people pictured on old banknotes
Sep 8, 2017 (WiC 379)

Since 1999 most Chinese bank notes have borne the image of the country’s former leader Mao Zedong. But some older notes, still in circulation, carry portraits of some of China’s 56 officially-acknowledged minorities. The old 10 yuan note ...

Is UNESCO status doing more harm than good?
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

Has the UNESCO curse struck again? That’s what some are asking after the residents of Chikan, a historic town that’s part of the southern city of Kaiping, have been ordered to leave. The area’s diaolou (which translate in English as ...

How a box of change has spread a little warmth across the country
Aug 25, 2017 (WiC 377)

It is not uncommon for desperate thieves to steal coins tossed into wishing wells. A serial offender got nabbed for it last week in Yunnan, having been caught using a long rod to extract them from a temple’s pond. So you might think that an ...

Chinese cities to open doors to Filipino nannies?
Aug 18, 2017 (WiC 376)

Many Hong Kong families rely on Filipino helpers to cook, clean and look after their children. But could that ready supply of domestic support be about to be diverted to major cities in mainland China? That was the fear in the Hong Kong press ...

Can flammable ice quench China’s energy thirst?
Jul 21, 2017 (WiC 375)

Flammable ice sounds like a material that Game of Thrones author George RR Martin might dream up. Indeed it seems to have other-worldly properties: ice that burns, producing water and energy as it melts. Until the 1960s, Western ...

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