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WiC 133 (Jan 6, 2012)

New Year, new fear?

Economy, Talking Point China resolved for an economic struggle as 2012 begins

The festive break is often followed by an early January gloom and the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao seemed to succumb himself this week, with warnings of ...

Sales relationships

Property Unusual methods employed to sell apartments

Offers of a giveaway household appliance or vacation getaway are no longer particularly unusual from developers looking to buck China’s housing ...

Upset with their bonus

Economy Industrial unrest at LG factory points to deeper problems

As a former Salomon Brothers investment banker Michael Lewis knows a thing or two about bonuses. But in his book The Big Short, Lewis reckons ...

A new neighbour from hell

China Ink Kim Jong Il’s death provoked headlines in China and across the…

The reaction to the news? CCTV, the state broadcaster, waded in with an effusive encomium: “Comrade Kim Jong Il was the great ...

Parking cash in Mercedes

M&A CIC to get $50 billion of new funds; will it buy…

By any standards, $50 billion is a generous Christmas gift. But as Reuters reported on December 23, that was the amount of additional funding China ...

Banking & Finance And the world’s top IPO market in 2011 was...

For many company owners, going public is a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise cash. Which is why the underwriter is so important – a poor job by ...

Operation Knightsbridge

China Consumer More record spending from China’s indefatigable shoppers

"Chinese shoppers, in particular, are fuelling stonking sales.” Such was the verdict given to British newspaper The Times by The New West End ...

Fully throttled

M&A Are foreign carmakers still welcome to invest?

Did a new policy – announced during the festive period – have foreign car bosses choking on their turkey? For the past three decades, foreign ...

Hitting the buffers

Rail & Infrastructure Senior bosses implicated in final crash report

On October 2, 1872 one of the world’s best-known travellers boarded a train at Charing Cross station at 8.45pm, and reached Paris the next morning at ...

Society Countryside exodus continues

China often talks of itself as a nation of farmers, and Mao Zedong was proud of the agrarian nature of his 1949 revolution. But in an historic shift, ...

China’s highest-earning star

Entertainment Li Yuchun

Li Yuchun has just been named the highest-earning young entertainer (under 30) in China for 2011. Last year the singer-actress raked in Rmb51.1 million ...

Communication crisis

China Consumer Mengniu in the firing line once again

This week, China’s leading dairy firms Mengniu, Yili and Sanyuan all announced that they’d raised prices for their dairy products. The companies ...

Absolutely revolting

Society Why Wukan is in the spotlight

Public frustration with seizure of farmland is nothing new in China, where local governments have long been accused of grabbing plots from villagers ...

Word of the year

Brush Strokes 'Control' is the word of 2011

No surprises, perhaps, that last year’s Chinese word of the year was ‘control’, or kong 控, according to the 2011 Chinese Word Inventory, an ...

Han Han rides again

Society Online essays about democracy and revolution cause stir

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not... I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being ...

Planet China Willy Wonka doesn’t have a direct Chinese equivalent but Shanghai has…

Willy Wonka doesn’t have a direct Chinese equivalent but Shanghai has now opened the next best thing: a World Chocolate Wonderland. According to ...

The Dragon is landing too…

Cartoons The Dragon is landing too…

“The Eagle has landed…” were the famous words uttered by US astronauts as they landed on the moon. But did they really, asks Fox Television. In ...

And Finally Debate rages over mother with eight kids

Whether they agree with the implementation of the one child policy or not, most Chinese share the belief that population control has helped the ...