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WiC 100 (Mar 25, 2011)

When the chips are down

Economy, Talking Point Will the quake in Japan cause a supply crisis for Chinese…

"I bought this salt at six yuan ($0.91) a pack. Then I heard the supply of salt wasn’t tight, so I want a refund.”

CCTV was reporting on a ...

Conferences Chinese shipyards in battle to stay afloat

At HSBC’s fifth annual Shipping Conference last week, China’s growing impact on the industry was a major topic for conversation. In less than a ...

Identity crisis

Auto Industry Land Rover in dispute with local firm that owns its Chinese…

"Take care of your name,” goes an old proverb, “as it’s the only one you have.” But Indian-owned (albeit British-born) carmaker Land Rover ...

Steeling its strategy

Energy & Resources Giant Wuhan steel firm gets to grips with supply problems by…

When a mining town runs out of the mineral reserves that have long been its lifeblood, attempts at reinvention often look a little ...

Avoid plane talking

China and the World China is in an ideological bind over Libyan crisis

Jackie Chan rarely has much trouble getting his films shown on Chinese screens. However, his next movie release may face some trickier issues with ...

By invitation only

Economy World’s corporate titans were in Beijing this week

Where are Hu and Wen? One of the things commented on at Davos this year was the absence of China’s political elite. The country may have sent its ...

Why Su got out of the kitchen

M&A France’s Groupe SEB takes control of China’s biggest cookware firm

Z hu Xinli, chairman at Huiyuan Juice, has a way with words. Defending himself from patriotic critics during Coke’s (aborted) bid for Huiyuan in ...

‘Bad boy’ Baidu?

Internet & Tech Why dominant search engine’s under attack

Heavyweights expect to take the occasional punch. But Baidu, China’s leading search engine, has been through a triple whammy of controversy in recent ...

Property Vanke targets the elderly

Grey market Vanke targets the elderly Chinese families ties might be about to tighten – and not necessarily by familial choice. In January, a ...

New lease of life

Property New rental housing for two million residents to be built in…

Chongqing, China’s largest municipality with 32 million people, was recently named as one of the country’s top 10 happiest places to live. Two of ...

China’s richest teacher

Who’s Hu Yu Minhong

Growing up in rural Jiangsu province, Yu Minhong saw education as a way to escape the farm. But when it came to getting into university, he didn't ...

Trusted sources

China Consumer Worried by food safety, Beijing housewives team up with organic farms

"They only want pigs fed with the drug,” a farmer complained to the Shanghai Daily recently, “because their pork products are more ...

Society Nanjing tree-chopping sparks protest and controversy

The works of playwright William Shakespeare have occasionally run into trouble with the authorities over the years. The English Puritans banned theatre ...

Sexual politics

Society Novelist wins top prize

Bi Feiyu’s novel Three Sisters is a candid tale of just how hard it was for rural women to survive in Cultural Revolution China. Last week ...

Going Gaga in Guangzhou?

Sport How one of China’s richest men wants to transform Chinese football

Forget the football. The big question is whether Lady Gaga will show up. The speculation surrounding tomorrow’s opening ceremony of the new ...

Planet China Man’s best friend just got more expensive. A dog named ‘Big…

Man’s best friend just got more expensive. A dog named ‘Big Splash’ (pictured above) has just been bought by a coal baron from Shanxi province ...

Badly connected

Cartoons Badly connected

Is China waging a guerrilla war against Google? That’s what the US company is now claiming, saying that in recent weeks its Gmail service has ...

Don’t forget your toothbrush

And Finally The darker side of press relations in China

In Europe and America the PR industry works its magic by befuddling journalists with a combination of spin, charm and expensive lunches at the Four ...