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WiC 102 (Apr 8, 2011)

What was the prank story?

Others And the lucky winner is...

Last week our issue coincided with April the first. As most readers will be aware, there is a longstanding tradition in Western media of running a ...

How will China react?

Energy & Resources, Talking Point Disaster in Japan may have little impact on Beijing’s nuclear plans

Blame Ralph Lapp. As far as China’s nuclear authorities are concerned, the American physicist’s introduction of the term “China Syndrome” to ...

Economy Chinese shoppers clean out shelves in advance of an anticipated price…

Detergent makers like to claim that their own soap powder is the fastest-acting. But in China last week it was shoppers who were reacting the quickest, ...

An udder disgrace?

China Ink New regulations hit home as almost half of China’s dairy producers…

A pretty significant failure rate? Nearly half of China’s 1,176 dairy and infant formula producers failed to renew their ...

Stone of destiny

Property Chinese demand for marble doubles thanks to apartment construction

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” Such was the boast of Augustus, the famed Roman emperor. But two thousand years on ...

Selling via word of weibo

Internet & Tech Companies discover online microblogs are effective marketing tool

"Low fat cake is now on sale for Rmb18 (original Rmb25), come now and get a free ice cream!” Simple promotional messages on weibo ...

Economy China’s new population problem: illegal immigrants

When people talk about China’s illegal immigrants, they tend to focus on the outbound traffic, and on tragic stories of snakeheads smuggling their ...

Drug lords fight

Healthcare Pharma firms divorce over diabetes products

As many seasoned investors will tell you, if a company is doing most of its business with a major shareholder, minority owners can often expect to lose ...

Society Graves for sale

Zombie homeowners in Western parlance are caught in a disorientating nether world, with home loans that they can no longer afford, but not yet evicted ...

Write or wrong?

Society Han Han attacks Baidu on behalf of authors

Han Han, China’s popular blogger and pop novelist, is about to reach a wider audience, after the New York Times confirmed that he has agreed to be ...

Former Miss World

Red Star Zhang Zilin

Born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, Zhang Zilin moved to Beijing when she was 12. She later completed her studies at the University of Science and Technology ...

Society Ballet version of classic novel staged in Hong Kong

Can a novel detailing the lascivious escapades of a dubious businessman possibly be considered art? Not if you’re the Chinese government, it ...

No Zuckerbergs here

Society Prestigious Chinese university unleashes ‘thought police’ on student body

Peking University, known in China as Beida, has long been a symbol of liberal thought, with its early teaching faculty including the free-thinking Lu ...

Planet China Trying to keep provincial officials from squandering public funds on grandiose…

Trying to keep provincial officials from squandering public funds on grandiose pet projects is starting to look downright impossible. A year ago, in ...

They like the gym

And Finally Why a small town produces so many medallists

When Li Na became the first Chinese player to make it to a tennis Grand Slam final at the Australian Open earlier this year, the State General ...