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WiC 129 (Nov 18, 2011)

Energy & Resources, Talking Point China suddenly finds it cheaper to buy materials. For the world:…

"If you want clean air, you should move to Africa.” Such was the somewhat cavalier remark alleged to have been made by a government official in ...

Poor group dynamic

Internet & Tech Groupon’s China site was already struggling. Now it’s been hit by…

Fresh from raising $700 million in the largest IPO for a US tech company since Google went public in 2004, Groupon is still riding high. Shares in the ...

Single-minded shoppers

China Consumer America’s big retail day is Black Friday. China has one too: Singles’ Day

"There will not be a happy Guangdong without local residents having happy sex lives,” Zhang Feng, deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong ...

China’s most famous cop

Chinese Character Why Chongqing’s police chief has inspired a gangster movie

Stories abound about Wang Lijun, the mafia-busting police chief of the southwest metropolis of Chongqing. Many relate to his high-profile effort, ...

A new oil giant?

Banking & Finance Sinochem’s $5.5 billion IPO will raise funds to build a refinery

When it comes to vertical integration, Andrew Carnegie is something of a role model. In fact, Carnegie Steel helped to pioneer the concept by ...

China and the World New regime says no to China mega dam

China’s relations with some of its Southeast Asian neighbours have soured this year over territorial disputes. But one might have thought that ...

Even the most powerful arrow will fall from the sky

History Lessons Emperor Wu

Henry Kissinger declared last year that China’s current rise will be harder for the world to respond to than Germany’s in the last century – ...

The honest truth

Society Have you been happy this year?

In China, 40% of those asked “are you happy?” responded “no” in a recent survey. The result was more surprising given that the survey was ...

Dribbling all over the desk

Sport There’s a new big man on campus – his name is…

Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University has produced some notable alumni, from former Chinese president, Jiang Zemin to Yang Yuanqing, chairman of Lenovo, ...

Erstwhile drinks king

Who’s Hu Li Jingwei

Born in 1939, Li Jingwei grew up in a orphanage in Guangzhou. Struggling for a living, the young Li tried his luck as cobbler, a printer and a domestic ...

Banking & Finance International board “ready”

Good news for foreign issuers looking to access China’s capital markets. The Shanghai Stock Exchange “is basically ready” to allow overseas ...

Copper-bottomed excuse

Energy & Resources Zambian leader backs down on China rhetoric after coming to power

Readers probably won’t be surprised to hear that Saudi Arabia, owner of the largest reserves of oil, is also China’s biggest supplier of crude. But ...

Where’s our invite, Barack?

China Ink Tension in Honolulu over US plans for an Asian trade area…

Time to bash China on its currency, again? The Global Times complained that the US was using “home advantage” to pressure China ...

Money under the mattress

Planet China In an episode of the hit HBO TV series The Wire…

In an episode of the hit HBO TV series The Wire a narcotics officers mocks the lack of street-smart among Baltimore’s white drug dealers compared to ...

Cartoons No small beer

In the US, Stella Artois markets itself as “a thing of beauty” with a campaign shot by fashion photographer Bert Stern. A glamorous woman downs her ...

Can China find its Steve Jobs?

And Finally Step forward Wei Xinlong, a student who built a DIY iPad-like…

Apple’s first 50 computers were built in Steve Jobs’s garage by a workforce that included a few of his pals and even his pregnant sister. It really ...