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WiC 148 (May 4, 2012)

US studios to face screen test

Entertainment, Talking Point Hollywood looks to conquer China

This year’s Beijing International Film Festival was a star-studded event. In addition to the usual A-list celebrities from the local movie industry, ...

Drug deal gone wrong

M&A China’s richest man is taking a state-owned firm to court

Hollywood films rarely show characters lighting up cigarettes nowadays. Not so for Hong Kong movie Love in the Puff, with an entire plot built ...

The bare bones of it

Auto Industry Why SUVs, not electric cars, are the new nirvana for Chinese…

Exhibition isn’t far from exhibitionism in the dictionary, and at the Beijing Auto Show last week it was even more difficult to tell the two ...

Bo’s fall explained

Economy The reasons Wang Lijun deserted his boss

With its mix of murder, politics and financial intrigue, the Bo Xilai case has all the makings of a bestselling novel. In fact, there’s probably a ...

Not on the list

Banking & Finance Brokers hope new rules will aid market revival

In a disappointing development for American dogs (and the occasional housewife, perhaps), the US mailman may not be delivering letters on Saturdays for ...

A $48 billion industry

Healthcare Chinese medicine struggles to find a remedy for the industry’s problems

In its 2,500 year history it is probably fair to say that the last 100 have been the most tumultuous for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The ...

Sport Female reporter punched

With its boss detained for economic crimes, and the media speculating over its precarious finances, you would think the news couldn’t get much worse ...

Entertainment China’s latest hit TV show is about ‘AA’ marriages

For centuries, marriages in China were often arranged affairs, aligning families for economic or political purposes. Although most people marry for ...

Who’s Hu Ning Gaoning

Born in 1958, Ning Gaoning is a native of Shandong province. Like many of his generation he went to the countryside for cadre education at the age of ...

Dark days ahead?

Banking & Finance Fears for China stocks overseas, as reporting season looms

For an industry primed to talk up its own prospects, the bankers’ response to China Auto Rental’s recently failed New York IPO was a deflating ...

A Chinese Focus

Auto Industry Will new factories help Ford catch China rivals?

General Motors brands have outsold Ford by 5-to-1 this year in China, according to research specialist LMC Automotive. In fact, Ford holds just 2% ...

Delayed Gratification

Planet China Heathrow’s Terminal 5 has returned to turmoil in recent weeks, reports…

Heathrow’s Terminal 5 has returned to turmoil in recent weeks, reports the Sunday Times, as immigration queues lasting up to three hours have been ...

And Finally Why Lenovo is buying Chinese winemakers

When Premier Wen Jiabao warned in March that government officials must curtail their consumption of baijiu, one company wasn’t paying much ...