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WiC 106 (May 13, 2011)

Dollars and censors

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Should IPO investors be nervous about government’s internet crackdown?

The world’s first internet bubble began to inflate in August 1995 with the listing of the web browser, Netscape. Jim Clark – the company’s major ...

Healthcare IPO signals battle to join pharma’s Big Three

"May lead to weight gain” is a warning common to plenty of prescription drugs. But in the case of China’s leading pharmaceutical firms, the ...

Price sensitive

Economy Unilever fined by NDRC for price hike talk

"I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” So proclaimed French philosopher Voltaire. His thoughts ...

Telecoms Location-based software arrives in China

Location, location, location is usually offered as a key piece of advice to prospective homebuyers. But might the message soon extend to merchants and ...

63 types of hinge is too many

China Consumer B&Q’s British-style approach fails, so it looks to emulate a Swedish…

"Chinese people have the money, intention and desire to improve their homes,” David Wei, the former head of B&Q China, said in 2003. He was ...

Shopping for property

Property Why Walmart’s become so keen on buying Chinese real estate

As any Sam’s Club shopper knows only too well, buying in bulk saves you money. And Sam’s Club owner Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is ...

New consensus after census?

China Ink The census results are in: China is getting older, and the…

Demographic crisis ahead? Demographic crisis ahead? Predictably, China’s press corps was more upbeat about the census results. ...

Song Zuying in Taiwan

Entertainment China’s new empress

Major General Song Zuying, reportedly the favourite singer of former president Jiang Zemin, had a very busy Mothers’ Day. Forget parade ground drills ...

Entertainment It had to happen: a TV show about job interviews proves…

Urban joblessness is not a particularly common concept for most Chinese: under Mao the government championed cradle-to-grave employment, while the ...

A sick society?

Society More concerns about China

Do human interest stories (often rather dreadful ones for those involved) have a particular fascination for a Chinese audience? Sometimes it has ...

A private affair

Banking & Finance Will private placement bonds revolutionise China’s debt markets?

Financing small and medium-size companies is a longstanding problem in China. To put the issue in perspective, you just need to look at the ...

Planet China American rappers looking for the ultimate in bling may have to…

American rappers looking for the ultimate in bling may have to make a trip to China, or more specifically, to Nanjing. According to the Yangtze Evening ...

Going crazy over iPad2

Cartoons Going crazy over iPad2

In the days of the command economy, Chinese consumers were used to lining up to shop. Memories of those days were revived last Saturday when Beijingers ...

China’s leader in 2044?

And Finally Media storm over young ‘politician’, aged 13

Mozart was composing symphonies by the time he was eight and Picasso had painted significant works of art by a similar age. But no one really likes ...