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WiC 104 (Apr 29, 2011)

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Rail & Infrastructure Fund manager travels on Chinese high-speed train and offers prognosis

Veteran investor James Cheng returns to our pages this week. The fund manager with Morgan Stanley Asset Management wrote an essay for WiC in issue ...

Property Government is now dictating property prices

WiC has written extensively about price controls in recent months. Now it is the property sector’s turn to come in for similar treatment to cabbage, ...

Economy, Talking Point Does a strike by Shanghai truck drivers signal inflation crisis?

In April 1956, the Ideal-X set sail for Houston from Newark. It was a landmark journey, the first voyage of what we now think of as a ‘container’ ...

Telecoms How Samsung Electronics’ Chinese sales hit an incredible $39.6 billion

In the world of intellectual-property lawsuits, this must be one of the biggest confrontations yet. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that ...

Banking & Finance Controversial case sees entrepreneur facing death for lending money

Shylock met with financial and personal ruin in Venice when he demanded his pound of flesh to repay a loan. But usury could cost Wu Ying even more, ...

And Finally Newspapers reveal Sinopec has built a luxury hotel

Oil companies struggle to be popular anywhere. But in China they find it especially challenging – particularly after they hike prices at the pump, as ...

Who’s Hu Xu Lianjie

Despite a lack of a formal education, Xu Lianjie has managed to become “South Fujian's business godfather”. Born in 1953 to a poor rural family in ...

Chinese Character Textile billionaire Li Rucheng now loves property. Is he stretched too…

Like many businessmen in China, Li Rucheng is constantly on the move. When he’s not visiting his factories in Ningbo, he is monitoring the stock ...

China Consumer Peanut snack becomes success through internet and word of mouth

Until recently, the mention of Huang Fei Hong to many Chinese would conjure up the image of the invincible action hero played by Jet Li inOnce Upon ...

Society China’s top university celebrates centenary

Boxers rarely enjoy much of a reputation for educational achievement, but Tsinghua University in Beijing is an exceptional case. Not for the ...

Society Shenzhen deports 80,000

Round up the usual suspects”, police captain Louis Renault famously ordered his men in the 1942 film Casablanca. Shenzhen’s city fathers now appear ...

Entertainment Why new movie based on a true story is such a…

China is no stranger to mining accidents. In fact, the country is the world leader when it comes to mining fatalities. In 2009, it reported 2,631 ...

Planet China Climate change takes odd forms, but for government officials in Shaanxi…

Climate change takes odd forms, but for government officials in Shaanxi province it has proven a particular headache this month. According to the China ...

Cartoons Half the rich want to leave

Possibly the most eye-opening statistic WiC has seen in a while has emerged courtesy of a survey authored by consultancy Bain and China Merchants Bank. ...

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