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WiC 119 (Aug 26, 2011)

China Consumer, Talking Point Apple once ignored China – now sales there have overtaken Lenovo’s

If imitation really is the highest form of flattery, Steve Jobs has reason to be pleased. Last month an American blogger posted a series of photos of ...

Rise of the RMB A raft of new measures announced to help promote the renminbi

Moments of personal theatre are rare for China’s leaders nowadays, who often seem reluctant to stand out from the crowd. But Li Keqiang looked ...

Internet & Tech State broadcaster opens fire on search engine rival

People like their days off. Not a startling revelation, for sure, but one that Cai Jiming found out the hard way, when he began reading comments made ...

Rail & Infrastructure Scandal-hit industry means tough times down the line

Since China first launched its stimulus package in 2008, investing in railway stocks has been a popular choice for domestic investors looking to gain ...

Chinese Character Businesswoman, icon, beauty guru. Step inside the world of Kan Yue-Sai

After many different guises – entrepreneur, China television icon, Manhattan socialite and cosmetics queen – Kan Yue-Sai is now making it her ...

Economy The economic slowdown is affecting China’s largest companies

Beijing Nine Star Technology is having a problem with customers not paying their bills. The provider of business management platforms started to notice ...

Society New museum reveals how Chinese learn history

When the British Museum was founded in 1753, it didn’t have a political purpose. It was created simply because physician Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed a ...

Society A fashion for Taiwanese wives

Taipei brides A fashion for Taiwanese wives With less than five months until he seeks presidential re-election, Ma Ying-jeou probably isn’t getting ...

Sport Why Shui On’s Vincent Lo is backing one-of-a-kind Chinese golf event

Ji Keliang, the boss of liquor giant Moutai, loves to play. Lenovo’s founder Liu Chuanzhi is keen on a round too. Glass tycoon Cao Dewang describes ...

Who’s Hu Nan Cunhui

Born in 1963 in Liushi, Nan Cunhui dropped out of school to repair shoes at the age of 13, in part to feed his family when his father was seriously ...

Economy No double-dip, say economists

In times of uncertainty, we all have a tendency to fall back on expert forecasts of where things are going. And there have been a few coming out of ...

M&A Shanghai food company finally secures an overseas acquisition

Simon Manassen, a Jewish survivor of the Second World War, started out selling European foods out of the back of a van in Sydney in 1952. Since then ...

China Ink Joe Biden met China’s future leader and sought to calm nerves…

A chance to meet Xi… Joe Biden hadn’t been to China for a while: 32 years, in fact. But this trip was designed to take Sino-US ...

Planet China ‘Lead by example’ is a well-known maxim. So what to make…

‘Lead by example’ is a well-known maxim. So what to make of senior management at the Bureau of Rural Hydropower and Electricification in Kunming, ...

Cartoons Into the red

Why is Chateau Lafite so incredibly popular with China’s new rich? Its terroir? Its expense? Yes, and definitely yes. But some sommeliers suggest ...

And Finally US ambassador’s laid-back style wins fans online

In his history of the Communist Party, Friends and Enemies, author Kerry Brown explains the distance between the people and the party: “Chinese ...