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Shanghai counters dwindling population with reversal of strategy
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

It seems like the world’s most populous country wants to get a little bigger. For the first time in decades, Chinese officials are encouraging procreation. Well, China is not doing away with the one-child policy just yet, but it is allowing ...

China has discovered God, and his name is apparently Sir Alex Ferguson. The Manchester United manager was greeted with adulation…
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

China has discovered God, and his name is apparently Sir Alex Ferguson. The Manchester United manager was greeted with adulation during the team’s recent trip to China where the English club crushed Hangzhou Greentown 8-2. United have 71 ...

Vehicle vigilante
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

You’ve heard of ‘road rage’ but what about ‘pedestrian rage’? In Gansu province an old man has made the headlines for his vigilante approach to traffic violations. The Lanzhou Morning Post reports that the unnamed 70 year-old lives by a ...

Ambush at the felled tree
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

During the Warring States period, Sun Bin and Pang Juan were both disciples of the same teacher. After they graduated, Pang became a general in the state of Wei. But he was jealous of Sun’s talents and plotted to ruin him. On one ...

Wang Shi
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

Born in 1951 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region (bordering Vietnam), Wang Shi joined the army at 17, before moving to the railway bureau where he worked in a boiler repair workshop. At 23 he enrolled at Lanzhou Railway University, and ...

Why China’s rich are paying up to $116,800 for red dragons
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

"We are recession-proof because we are in the luxury goods business,” says Mr Suen. But Suen doesn’t work for Louis Vuitton or BMW. He is the owner of a shop that sells red dragon fish in Beijing’s Guanyuan Market. The red dragon fish ...

In a recession, bet on booze. That seems to be the thinking behind China’s latest investment. The FT reports that…
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

In a recession, bet on booze. That seems to be the thinking behind China’s latest investment. The FT reports that the People’s Bank of China has purchased a 1.1% stake in the British distiller, Diageo, worth around $364 million. The drinks ...

Divorced from reality
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

In messy marriage break-ups everything has a monetary value. But a case in China took this concept to a level that would shock even the most hardened US divorce lawyer. According to a report in the Chutian Metropolis Daily, an embittered husband ...

Liu Chuanzhi
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

Getting started Liu Chuanzhi developed his entrepreneurial instincts at a relatively advanced age; he was 40 when he left the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with 10 engineers and Rmb200,000 ($25,000) of cash, to found Legend in ...

If it is true to form, this is a stock market listing that could well go through the roof. The…
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

If it is true to form, this is a stock market listing that could well go through the roof. The world’s biggest IPO this year is set to be China’s biggest builder - China State Construction Engineering Corp - which was given the go-ahead ...

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Vehicle vigilante Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25) You’ve heard of ‘road rage’ but what about ‘pedestrian rage’? In Gansu province an old man has made the headlines for his vigilante approach to traffic violations. The Lanzhou Morning Post reports that the unnamed 70 year-old lives by a ...

Ambush at the felled tree Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25) During the Warring States period, Sun Bin and Pang Juan were both disciples of the same teacher. After they graduated, Pang became a general in the state of Wei. But he was jealous of Sun’s talents and plotted to ruin him. On one ...

Wang Shi Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25) Born in 1951 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region (bordering Vietnam), Wang Shi joined the army at 17, before moving to the railway bureau where he worked in a boiler repair workshop. At 23 he enrolled at Lanzhou Railway University, and ...

Divorced from reality Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24) In messy marriage break-ups everything has a monetary value. But a case in China took this concept to a level that would shock even the most hardened US divorce lawyer. According to a report in the Chutian Metropolis Daily, an embittered husband ...

Liu Chuanzhi Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24) Getting started Liu Chuanzhi developed his entrepreneurial instincts at a relatively advanced age; he was 40 when he left the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with 10 engineers and Rmb200,000 ($25,000) of cash, to found Legend in ...

Vehicle vigilante
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

You’ve heard of ‘road rage’ but what about ‘pedestrian rage’? In Gansu province an old man has made the headlines for his vigilante approach to traffic violations. The Lanzhou Morning Post reports that the unnamed 70 year-old lives by a ...

Ambush at the felled tree
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

During the Warring States period, Sun Bin and Pang Juan were both disciples of the same teacher. After they graduated, Pang became a general in the state of Wei. But he was jealous of Sun’s talents and plotted to ruin him. On one ...

Wang Shi
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

Born in 1951 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region (bordering Vietnam), Wang Shi joined the army at 17, before moving to the railway bureau where he worked in a boiler repair workshop. At 23 he enrolled at Lanzhou Railway University, and ...

Divorced from reality
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

In messy marriage break-ups everything has a monetary value. But a case in China took this concept to a level that would shock even the most hardened US divorce lawyer. According to a report in the Chutian Metropolis Daily, an embittered husband ...

Liu Chuanzhi
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

Getting started Liu Chuanzhi developed his entrepreneurial instincts at a relatively advanced age; he was 40 when he left the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with 10 engineers and Rmb200,000 ($25,000) of cash, to found Legend in ...