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WiC 121 (Sep 9, 2011)

ConocoPhillips in the dock

Energy & Resources, Talking Point US oil firm under fire for poor handling of offshore spill

The first man-made ‘oil spill’ was probably in Turkmenistan in 329 BC, reckons company magazine Aramco World. Blame servants of Alexander the ...

China and the World A bad week for China’s relations with Libya

For Chinese companies worried about the future of their $18 billion of business interests in Libya, the news this week couldn’t have been much ...

Expensive habit

China Consumer How Chinese women will save luxury firms’ P&L

"Think of it as an investment” are dreaded words for even the most shopping-hardened of husbands. Occasionally, it turns out to be correct. ...

Property New marriage law is all about real estate

English politician and lawyer Sir Edward Coke, famously declared that “a man’s house is his castle, and each man’s house is his safest ...

China and the World Aquino promotes trade, but South China Sea issue left unresolved

In 1861, Co Yu Hwan left Hongjian village, his hometown in Fujian province, for the Philippines. Taking Manila as his new home, Co converted to ...

Economy Taxi drivers in strikes as incomes reduce

"One day work like a robot, next day sleep like a vegetable.” That’s how one of Shanghai’s 50,000 taxi drivers described his gruelling schedule ...

Who’s Hu Chen Yixi

Born in 1967 in Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu province, Chen Yixi met his best friends and business partners, Li Wei and Miu Bingwen, in Nanjing ...

Economy Why taxing mooncakes is causing a stir

Last week police in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung called out the bomb squad. The suspicious package was cordoned off in a subway station ...

Banking & Finance PICC listing could be the first of a string of giant…

At Shanghai’s Expo last year, People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC) had the honour of representing their industry with a pavilion. Visitors ...

Picture perfect

Red Star Chen Man

A graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Chen Man’s big break came while she was still studying in 2009 when she was offered a ...

How I got into Harvard

Society Getting Chinese students into the Ivy League is big business

When Dong Kaiqian, a 17 year-old student from Beijing, was applying to colleges in the US, poor results on a practice SAT and a dearth of ...

A French affair

Entertainment Chinese movie set in Paris plays up to Gallic stereotypes

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.” A ...

Negotiating tool

Energy & Resources China (again) seeks to dictate iron ore prices

If you had to pick the commodity getting most attention during WiC’s first two years of reporting, it would probably be iron ore. In fact, iron ...

Shopping for love

Planet China Most people go to IKEA for a sofa or a lamp.…

Most people go to IKEA for a sofa or a lamp. But in Shanghai they’re also looking for a spouse, it seems. The Shanghai Daily reports that the ...

Georgia on my mind (and in my wok)

Cartoons Georgia on my mind (and in my wok)

For a media on the hunt for tales of US manufacturing woe, a story from The Daily Telegraph in the UK turns the tables this week. The newspaper reports ...

What does it mean?

And Finally New words added to China’s official dictionary point to social changes

Two decades after China allowed its citizens to start buying and selling stocks, the word fenhong, or dividend, has finally been included in the ...