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WiC 125 (Oct 7, 2011)

Troubled track record?

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point Latest subway crash deepens debate on rail industry’s health

Back in WiC23, we reported that the plans for Beijing’s subway were being outlined in an unapologetically bullish manner. ”Those who know ...

Your money or your wife

Banking & Finance Underground lending (again): this time it leads to a kidnapping

When the wife of a senior official from the Bank of China was abducted in Inner Mongolia this summer, the kidnapper promised to release her if one of ...

Showing metal in a crisis

Energy & Resources Two major mining acquisitions show China’s still resource-hungry

Afavoured cliché of China-watchers is that the two characters that together mean ‘crisis’ (危机) separately denote ‘danger’ and ...

Big, but not beautiful

Shipping China needs convincing that Vale’s behemoth ships should be able to…

At 400,000 deadweight tonnes, the Valemax is beast of a ship, offering at least twice the capacity of the average Capesize vessel. Capesize ships ...

The new space race

Space Programme Should US worry about Sino space station?

When Tiangong-1, China’s first space laboratory, blasted successfully into the skies on the evening of September 29, Chinese state TV serenaded the ...

Alibaba gets acquisitive

Internet & Tech Internet tycoon Jack Ma declares he wants to buy Yahoo

In what would be a dramatic turnaround of events, Jack Ma, founder and chief executive of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, made a provocative ...

Who’s Hu Zheng Yonggang

Born in Ningbo, a city near Shanghai, in 1958, Zheng Yonggang retired from the army in 1979 and began work as a driver for a trading company. Over the ...

Worse, per capita, than France

Economy New report reveals shocking data on China’s greenhouse gas emissions

China may choose (on some occasions) to refer to itself as a developing nation, but in terms of greenhouse gas emissions per person, it is already a ...

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

Society The death of Apple's founder was big news in China

Tens of millions of Chinese web users paid tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs yesterday in an unprecedented show of collective grief over the death ...

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Internet & Tech Google has had a tough time in China. Time for plan…

While Alibaba Group is turning its attention to the US, search giant Google is again trying to bulk up its efforts in China, with Liu Yun, vice ...

Note from the Editor

Others WiC will not be published next week (Oct 14)

Dear Reader, China celebrated its National Day on October 1 and all of this week the country has been on holiday. WiC doesn't publish an edition on ...

Society Satirical novel gets translated to English

In his 1891 play The Decay of Lying Oscar Wilde has his bookish heroine Vivian declare: “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates ...

Society China’s long forgotten war dead get remembered

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, set up during the First World War by Sir Fabian Ware, is best known for the white gravestones of the war ...

Paying up for star power

Entertainment Zhang Ziyi to earn Rmb20 million for role in new blockbuster

The various film reincarnations of Dangerous Liaisons – first penned as an 18th century novel in France – have all featured glamorous ...

Planet China He’s been a wanted man for 17 years, and now he’s…

He’s been a wanted man for 17 years, and now he’s wanted once more. According to China Daily, Kang Jianlin had evaded trial for rape since 1994, ...

Wrangling in Rangoon

Cartoons Wrangling in Rangoon

The Burma Road has a famed history as the transport artery that helped support the struggle between Chinese forces and the Japanese. But as China ...

And Finally China rival to Nobel Peace Prize is scrapped

Confucius advocated order and harmony. But an award said to be offered in his name has shown scant evidence of either. The Confucius Peace Prize was ...