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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 ...

Tencent puts time curb on popular mobile game
Jul 14, 2017 (WiC 374)

It is 20 years since Nokia gave timewasters a new outlet by launching Snake, the first game on a mobile phone to be a worldwide hit. Today’s favourite titles are a lot more sophisticated. One of the leading contenders ...

New law tightens rules around singing of the Chinese national anthem
Jul 7, 2017 (WiC 373)

The March of the Volunteers, China’s national anthem, has had an erratic history. It started out as a song in a film and only picked up in popularity as a result of a singing campaign in the 1930s. But it was banned for part of the ...

Fury as TV doctor is exposed as not a doctor
Jun 30, 2017 (WiC 372)

Liu Hongbin has the type of face that people are inclined to trust. Her short grey hair is smart yet pragmatic, her unlined face radiates good health, and her glasses hint at scholarly pursuits. Liu is the archetypal senior citizen: cultured, ...

First photo booths, now karaoke cubicles
Jun 23, 2017 (WiC 371)

It takes confidence to sing in front of a room full of people, but how about singing in a glass box in the middle of a shopping mall? A string of start-ups in China are hoping their compatriots have the chutzpah to give it a go. One such ...

Why zoo investors fed a donkey to the tigers
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

In his 1991 bestseller Native Tongue, Florida-based satirist Carl Hiaasen explored the schizophrenic nature of theme parks: they are technicolour temples of family fun on the outside, but dark, often exploitative businesses behind the ...

Chinese firm buys back Jissbon condom brand
Jun 9, 2017 (WiC 369)

“The name’s Bond, James Bond.” It’s an immortal phrase, and has been used regularly in the fictional British spy’s 25 blockbuster movies over the past 55 years. Aside from his knack for saving the world, Agent 007 is probably most ...

Exdoll hoping to be China’s first ‘love doll’ maker to go public
Jun 2, 2017 (WiC 368)

Chinese firms have unveiled numerous humanoid robots in recent years with rudimentary artificial intelligence. By some peculiar coincidence most of them have taken the female form (save, perhaps, the robot replica of Abe Shinzo, which bowed and ...

Push to promote marriage as population figures are called into question
May 26, 2017 (WiC 367)

China might not be the world’s most populous country. That’s the finding of Yi Fuxian, a Chinese scientist based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Yi has estimated there are 90 million fewer Chinese than the current ...

The latest boom: Chinese patients seeking treatment overseas
May 19, 2017 (WiC 366)

China’s strict family planning laws ban unmarried women from using fertility treatment. This rule became the subject of heated discussion in 2015 after actress and director Xu Jinglei said she had travelled to America to have her eggs frozen ...

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