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For fans of a classic escapist novel, a room with a view now awaits…
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

Ever since James Hilton wrote Lost Horizon, about a mythical city called Shangri-La, the 1933 classic has come to define fantasies of Himalayan hideaways. But the fictional utopia turns out to exist after all. Nestled in a valley in Yunnan ...

Beijing locals have long nicknamed it the ‘Underpants’. And according to a revelation in last week’s People’s Daily, perhaps with…
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

Beijing locals have long nicknamed it the ‘Underpants’. And according to a revelation in last week’s People’s Daily, perhaps with good reason. The controversial CCTV Tower – a futuristic design with two huge base legs – has been a ...

Cheesed off
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Liu Yang is on a mission, and it is not one his wife is very happy about. The 35 year-old has sunk his life savings into a cheese shop in Beijing. Le Fromager du Pekin, as the shop is known, makes its own Camembert-style cheeses. And Liu is ...

Caught out by envy, not the enemy
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

The Northern Song Dynasty under Emperor Taizung of Song (939-997), alternated between warfare and diplomacy in its dealings with the ethnic Khitans of the Liao Dynasty in the northeast. In 986, the Song emperor launched an expedition against ...

Huang Ming
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

The 50 year-old from Shandong is another business leader lucky to be of university age just as the Cultural Revolution ended. He later became an oil equipment engineer in the Ministry of Geology and Resources. Big break At ...

Why China’s wealthiest villagers cannot afford to leave home
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Locals describe the village of Huaxi as China’s socialist Disneyland. The per capita income is seven times the national average. And its 60,000 residents enjoy health insurance, pensions and two-car garages. Every year, the town – ...

Newspaper headlines cried ‘Red skies ahead’ as Air China increased its stake in Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific to 29.99%…
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Newspaper headlines cried ‘Red skies ahead’ as Air China increased its stake in Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific to 29.99% this week. The deal saw China’s leading carrier up its shareholding in Cathay from just over 17%. The ...

Petrol head
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

According to the China Daily a boy from Sichuan became so obsessed with the Transformers franchise that he began drinking gasoline. The boy’s father, Chen Dahai says his son saw a Transformers cartoon at a friend’s house and began to mimic ...

Black Sesame Kitchen
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

As soon as you step inside Black Sesame Kitchen, you see the Chinese proverb on the wall: “To the people, food is heaven.” China boasts one of the most diverse culinary cultures and Jen Lin-Liu, an American-born Chinese, is bringing back a ...

Liu Yiqian
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden ...

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Cheesed off Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27) Liu Yang is on a mission, and it is not one his wife is very happy about. The 35 year-old has sunk his life savings into a cheese shop in Beijing. Le Fromager du Pekin, as the shop is known, makes its own Camembert-style cheeses. And Liu is ...

Huang Ming Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27) The 50 year-old from Shandong is another business leader lucky to be of university age just as the Cultural Revolution ended. He later became an oil equipment engineer in the Ministry of Geology and Resources. Big break At ...

Petrol head Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26) According to the China Daily a boy from Sichuan became so obsessed with the Transformers franchise that he began drinking gasoline. The boy’s father, Chen Dahai says his son saw a Transformers cartoon at a friend’s house and began to mimic ...

Black Sesame Kitchen Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26) As soon as you step inside Black Sesame Kitchen, you see the Chinese proverb on the wall: “To the people, food is heaven.” China boasts one of the most diverse culinary cultures and Jen Lin-Liu, an American-born Chinese, is bringing back a ...

Liu Yiqian Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26) Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden ...

Cheesed off
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

Liu Yang is on a mission, and it is not one his wife is very happy about. The 35 year-old has sunk his life savings into a cheese shop in Beijing. Le Fromager du Pekin, as the shop is known, makes its own Camembert-style cheeses. And Liu is ...

Huang Ming
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

The 50 year-old from Shandong is another business leader lucky to be of university age just as the Cultural Revolution ended. He later became an oil equipment engineer in the Ministry of Geology and Resources. Big break At ...

Petrol head
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

According to the China Daily a boy from Sichuan became so obsessed with the Transformers franchise that he began drinking gasoline. The boy’s father, Chen Dahai says his son saw a Transformers cartoon at a friend’s house and began to mimic ...

Black Sesame Kitchen
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

As soon as you step inside Black Sesame Kitchen, you see the Chinese proverb on the wall: “To the people, food is heaven.” China boasts one of the most diverse culinary cultures and Jen Lin-Liu, an American-born Chinese, is bringing back a ...

Liu Yiqian
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden ...