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WiC 111 (Jun 17, 2011)
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Banking & Finance, Talking Point Muddy Waters is on a (profitable) mission to expose dodgy Chinese…

Effectively a Ponzi scheme” is an accusation that is always going to get attention, especially in the post-Madoff era. And so it turned out for ...

Economy More unrest in China this week

Perhaps China’s leaders have been thumbing through the opening lines of 14th century classic The Romance of the Three Kingdoms in recent ...

Internet & Tech Sina has China’s top social networking platform

Is Facebook finally going public? According to CNBC this week, the social networking giant is considering filing for an initial public offering that ...

Society He ‘opened’ China – but is Kissinger’s memoir the definitive China book?

The peril of writing a book about China is how quickly things can change, rendering even observations about very recent trends defunct. Henry ...

Energy & Resources Meet Xue Guanglin, China’s only private sector oil baron

China wasn’t supposed to have oil barons. Forget tycoons like John D Rockefeller or Ludvig Nobel. Instead, control of the country’s oil sector was ...

Economy Why tensions flared in Inner Mongolia recently

It wasn’t a conventional hit and run. A group of Mongolian herdsman had been blocking a road in West Ujimqin Banner, to protest against the impact of ...

Banking & Finance Investors cry foul at shenanigans in China’s bond market

John Moody founded his eponymous ratings firm in 1909 to assess the risk of American railways defaulting on bondholders. In China, bondholders current ...

Entertainment TV show panned by critics for portrayal of rural China

"I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.” For Leonardo da Vinci, that meant grasping why lightning is visible ...

Society Dispute over university entrance exam

China experienced a rare moment of hush last weekend. The construction crews were told to take a break, and thousands of traffic police stopped drivers ...

Environment Controversy over Jiuquan’s mega wind farm

It is said that the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu was so obsessed with immortality that he bankrupted the national treasury building his tomb, the Great ...

Who’s Hu Chen Qingyuan

After graduating from high school in 1985, Chen Qingyuan returned to his rural hometown in Fujian. As the most educated person in Matang, Chen was soon ...

Property Are Chinese tiring of buying foreign property?

It has been a busy summer for property broker Steve High. Although the US property market remains dismal, he told the Wall Street Journal, he’s ...

Auto Industry Volvo delivers innovative strategy to sell its trucks to Chinese drivers

China is now a crucial market for international carmakers. Senior executives wait anxiously each month for sales data, while their designers work on ...

China Ink Tensions rise between China and Vietnam over contested seas (and oil).

What has triggered the spat? On May 26, Vietnam claimed that a Chinese vessel had cut the cable of an oil exploration vessel 220km ...

Planet China Where is the reddest place in China? Chongqing has been encouraging…

Where is the reddest place in China? Chongqing has been encouraging the singing of red songs to celebrate the country’s revolutionary heritage. But ...

Cartoons Will Man Utd score in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong fans of Manchester United could soon own a piece of the club. The Sunday Times reported this week that the Glazer family, which owns the ...

And Finally, Cross Strait Prestigious Chinese painting is finally reunited in Taipei museum

Looking for a painting with plenty of political symbolism? In the Chinese context, it would be hard to better Huang Gong-wang’s Dwelling in the ...

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