134 « Week In China

Sorry, you have not enabled Javascript for your internet browser, so some of our website's pages may not render as fully as intended.
Please Click here for easy instructions on how to enable Javascript on your browser or consult your IT support staff for help.

Back Issue

WiC 134 (Jan 13, 2012)

Others WiC’s 2011 predictions: how did we do?

In our 88th issue – published in December 2010 – we looked back at eight of the big themes that we’d tracked since the inaugural issue of Week in ...

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Debacle over Chongqing Brewery’s failed vaccine rattles fund managers

"That calls for a Carlsberg” is a marketing tagline currently doing the rounds at the Danish brewing giant. But news from one of Carlsberg’s ...

Property Darwinian times for China’s property developers

Desperate times call for desperate measures. So Greentown’s latest asset sale makes you wonder just how frantic company bosses might be ...

China and the World As pressure on Iran mounts, China looks to diversify its oil…

Threats by the Iranian government to block the Strait of Hormuz have taken the war of words between Tehran and Western leaders to a new level. Some ...

China Consumer Demand for Moutai’s liquor sees its profits grow fastest in country…

Like sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, boozing, shopping and gambling make for a well-tested trio – especially if they can all be offered at the same ...

Banking & Finance It’s not just in Europe that credit downgrades are on the rise

The Chinese bond market started the year with a false alarm. On the first trading day of 2012, the official clearing house posted on its website that ...

Entertainment Historical drama fills gap left by SARFT cull

Readers will recall that China’s TV regulator (SARFT) has ordered a primetime cull of racier (and popular) entertainment programmes (primarily dating ...

Society Dragon design stirs debate

The first Chinese stamp to go into print was the ‘Large Dragons’ in Shanghai in 1878. The stamps were inscribed “China” in Latin letters as ...

Society Shanghai event struggles to unearth “suitable” Chinese debutantes

For millions of female TV viewers, the closest they will come to a debutante ball is an episode of Gossip Girl. In the first season of the hit ...

Economy Why the ‘denim capital’ of China is suddenly lacking zip

It was 140 years ago that a Nevada tailor called Jacob Davis sent a letter to dry goods merchant Levi Strauss asking for a business partner. Davis had ...

Agriculture Chinese ginseng industry loses out to Koreans

China has been using ginseng medicinally for centuries. During the first years of the Qing Dynasty, smallpox was rampant and for the victims ginseng ...

Environment Government succumbs to public outcry on data

Has the population of Beijing just experienced a “People Power” moment? In a turnabout decision, the government last week said it would begin ...

Planet China According to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings…

According to a new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, China will be home to 10 of the world’s 20 tallest skyscrapers by 2020. ...

Cartoons Dragons unite!

Few Chinese will have heard of the village of Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire (and even fewer will be able to pronounce it). But that may change on news ...

And Finally Mahjong starts to gain popularity outside China

Her estate claims that her works are the most widely published in the world, behind only the Bible and the plays of William Shakespeare. At four ...