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WiC 123 (Sep 23, 2011)

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point Sany braves grim market conditions before pulling out of Hong Kong…

Getting ‘listed’ has been very much on Liang Wengen’s mind this month. Liang is chairman of construction machinery giant Sany Group, founded ...

Cross Strait Taiwan opposition leader sparks controversy

It was an unusual statement for a leader of Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to make. But Tsai Ing-wen struck an unexpected tone in ...

Economy Government officials ‘watch’ what they wear

A netizen with the deeply unthreatening online moniker ‘Mountain Flower and Fruit General Secretary’ is striking fear into the hearts of government ...

Chinese Character Untimely death of the Indian entrepreneur who cracked China

There are over a billion Indians, but very few of them have managed to build a business in China. Chander Oberoi was one of those rare exceptions: ...

Environment Why China wants to build world’s biggest rubbish incinerator

When an economy is growing at 9% a year, you can be sure that garbage is also piling up at a startling rate. This issue was in the news again last ...

China Consumer The latest scandal surrounds ‘gutter oil’. Don’t read this before you…

Of the many food scandals to have emerged in China in the last few years – fake eggs, pork made to taste like beef, exploding water melons and ...

History Lessons General Li Shuangjiang

Confucius would have understood what General Li Shuangjiang was trying to say when the singer of patriotic songs recently told netizens: “I didn’t ...

Society Drama festival focuses on high property prices

Landlords have long been villains in Chinese popular culture, perhaps personified by Huang Shiren, the heartless homeowner in the Communist Party’s ...

Society Why VC firms want to meet businessmens’ wives

Forget style, sentence and syntax; let’s just screech. Unlikely advice from a language teacher, certainly. But it has made Li Yang into arguably ...

Entertainment TV show watched by hundreds of millions has plug pulled by…

This year China’s TV audience chose Duan Linxi – an androgynous-looking musician from Yunnan – as their ‘Happy Girl’. Hundreds of millions ...

China Consumer Luxury goods firms come to understand marketing power of weibo

A new face was turning heads at Chanel’s Spring fashion show in March. Chinese actress and ‘microblogging queen’ Yao Chen was sitting in the ...

Planet China A whole new spin on the term ‘travelling on expenses’ courtesy…

A whole new spin on the term ‘travelling on expenses’ courtesy of Hubei this week. According to the Beijing Times, a provincial committee went ...

Cartoons Romney reverses?

You know a US election is looming when aspiring presidential candidates start bashing China. The latest to take up the baton is Mitt Romney, who is ...

And Finally Why Chinese won’t help old people who fall

T he Confucian tradition prides itself on respect for the elderly: the ideal family consists of “three generations under one roof” and children are ...