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WiC 14 (May 8, 2009)

Economy, Talking Point Shanghai could soon see multinationals listing on its bourse

The architecture of the Bund says Shanghai has been here before. The city’s most popular tourist attraction runs along the western bank of the ...

Sport Beijing worries about ‘green opium’

You can get quarterly GDP statistics, and monthly tallies of electricity output, but there is one Chinese statistic that is much more elusive: how many ...

Wish we weren’t here

Healthcare Mexicans bear the brunt of swine flu response

As far as Mao was concerned, enemies of the state could come in all shapes and sizes. Take the Kill a Sparrow campaign – the best known of a series ...

Energy & Resources Steelmakers and miners are still at loggerheads over the price of…

Based on the archeological evidence, China first discovered iron ore in 600 BC. And it keeps on finding more. The People’s Daily reports that an ...

Sock it to them

Economy How two cities are thriving despite a collapse in exports

In spite of an unprecedented drop in exports, Datang and Zhili – two manufacturing cities in Zhejiang Province – are bucking the trend, and ...

Society Genealogy reborn

Millions of Chinese with obscure names – about 60 million in total, according to estimates in a 2006 government report – will soon to be forced to ...

Sport A tennis star rebels

Li Na is hardly an enfant terrible in international sporting terms; no major clashes with umpires, no falling out of nightclubs blind-drunk and not ...

History Lessons The 'almost' emperor

In July 1449 Esen Tayisi of the Mongols launched a large-scale invasion of China. In Datong (in northern Shanxi province), 5,000 Mongol cavalry ...

Fast Food Good old fry up

What is it? Youtiao, also known as Chinese fried bread, is a typical breakfast food. Translated as “oil strip,” it’s a long ...

My body is a temple…

Society From Buddha to bathhouse

Is cleanliness next to godliness? Well, the Beibei district government seems to think so. A 1,600 year old Buddhist temple in this suburban ...

More tea in China

Society The Pu’er bubble bursts

The saying around here was it’s better to save Pu’er than to save money,” comments Wang Ruoyu, a long-time dealer of Pu’er tea in Yunnan ...

Tikka to Tamiflu

Healthcare A Chinese spice to ward off the flu

Even a global pandemic can have a silver lining. In China, news of the latest flu strain H1N1 will not unduly perturb growers of the star aniseed ...

Water, water, not everywhere

Environment Polluting a reservoir in the interests of great television

Could a battle between the forces of Zhuge Liang and Cao Cao in 209 AD really cause a present day environmental disaster? It seems that it could. ...

China and the World After 700 years of acrimony are Sino-Japanese relations looking up?

Rivalry between China and Japan dates back some time. In 1274, China’s Emperor Khubilai Khan established an ‘Office for the Chastisement of ...

A new kind of bridge loan

Banking & Finance China’s big banks are lending like there’s no tomorrow

How do you make a grown man cry? Make him watch Marley & Me, perhaps? Or in the case of Wang Jian tell him he can lend you the money to build a ...

Planet China, Section It’s a scene that recalls Kathy Bates ‘hobbling’ of James Caan…

It’s a scene that recalls Kathy Bates ‘hobbling’ of James Caan in the movie Misery. A 30 year-old woman in Dunhuang, Gansu decided her husband ...

Magic plates disappear

Cartoons Magic plates disappear

Starsky and Hutch, the 1970s TV cops, regularly leaned out of the window of their Gran Torino car to stick a siren on its roof – before going on to ...

Full medal racket

And Finally Everyone would love to win an Olympic gold, and now you…

We can all be winners if we want it badly enough, according to the perma-tanned promises of motivational speakers the world over. But why spend a ...