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WiC 128 (Nov 11, 2011)

A developing problem

Property, Talking Point The world’s two biggest risks? Try the eurozone and a China…

Chinese developers have a penchant for giving their projects exotic names, often with a French twist. Maybe they are of the impression that it adds ...

A Jobs well done

Chinese Character, Society Jobs bio is book of the year

He never even went to China and he said remarkably little about the world’s most populous country and second biggest economy. And yet when the new ...

Pepsi’s challenge

China Consumer US firm inks key deal with noodle giant Tingyi

Multinationals have long maintained that localisation is key to successful sales in China, and Indra Nooyi, Pepsi’s chief executive, extolled it ...

Doctoring the numbers?

Healthcare Two years in, China’s medical reforms have a long way to…

In 2006, Wang Baoming underwent surgery for throat cancer at Beijing Tongren Hospital, one of the capital’s best-known hospitals. Wang was not ...

Economy Cash-strapped local governments look to increase their fiscal revenue

"No taxation without representation” is one of history’s more famous political slogans, and the fundamental complaint of American colonists against ...

Banking & Finance China’s financial regulators get new leaders in sweeping reshuffle

In terms of red tape, China remains a difficult place to do business. There’s still so much of it to negotiate that the World Bank’s rankings puts ...

Mission impossible?

Healthcare China’s government is spending more on healthcare

Fixing healthcare is a complicated challenge. Witness the rancour over ‘ObamaCare’ in the US; or the endless attempts to reform the National Health ...

Healthcare Hospitals in need of overhaul

One thing that no one doubts: China needs more hospitals. According to the Beijing News, the capital city’s top three hospitals are accepting 20,000 ...

Healthcare An unintended consequence: medicine shortages

Aside from announcing a major increase in spending, the other concrete measure introduced at the onset of the healthcare reforms was the creation of a ...

Healthcare Rural spending on clinics surges

One afternoon this spring, a small village in Guangxi province took the blood pressure of every inhabitant. Nothing striking about such a basic ...

Too successful?

Healthcare Why Beijing’s scheme may be almost bust

The phrase ‘victim of its own success’ seems appropriate for what’s currently happening in Beijing’s healthcare system. The capital city – ...

Chinese medical insurance for beginners

Healthcare Explaining China's medical insurance programme

The state’s medical insurance programme is funded by individuals and employers. The patient has two accounts, termed personal and public. The former ...

It’s a guy thing

Entertainment The TV drama that was watched by over 500 million

"I knew we had touched a nerve a few years ago when he said he'd have more time to watch Sex and the City if he lost his re-election." The ...

Wenzhou’s richest man

Who’s Hu Qiu Guanghe

This year’s Hurun’s Rich List saw Qiu Guanghe beat Zhou Houjian to become the richest man in Wenzhou, with a fortune of Rmb33 billion. But back in ...

Investing in Mr Kim

China and the World China is taking advantage of trade opportunities with North Korea

For a stark reminder of the land that time forgot, it’s hard to do better than catch the train from Pyongyang to Beijing. The last leg of the ...

Brush Strokes Struggle

Life in China is a struggle – at least that’s what the government says, repeatedly. “Struggle” or fendou is a favourite word of ...

Planet China As good as gold is a common expression but for some…

As good as gold is a common expression but for some Chinese Olympians it has rather a hollow ring. That’s not to do with a failure to win the top ...

Not good with their hands

Cartoons Not good with their hands

House-proud Britons like little more than to spend a few hours a week improving their homes with a bit of DIY. This do-it-yourself culture has proven a ...

We prefer America

And Finally Over half China’s rich want to live abroad

With the economic climate looking grim, recent graduates in Europe and North America could be forgiven for wondering if they should consider China for ...