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WiC 149 (May 11, 2012)

Don’t bank on it

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Two cases may point to serious trouble ahead for China’s financial…

Perhaps bankers should have paid more attention to the smell test. After all, anyone who claims to have made their first fortune from a ‘shrewd’ ...

Energy & Resources Sinopec has a new rival in China Gas takeover

Beijing Enterprises is not a company that’s frequently in the news. In fact, the last time it hogged the headlines was when it listed in Hong Kong in ...

Ancient capital

Economy Why is Samsung investing $30 billion in Xi'an?

These have been a stellar few weeks for Samsung. First off, the South Korean firm attained its ambition to become the world’s biggest mobile phone ...

Taking the biscuit

China Consumer Shanghai’s Bright Food is back buying in Britain – and this…

Wang Zongnan, chairman of Bright Food, says he has changed his breakfast diet to a bowl of two Weetabix with milk. The Shanghai-based boss tells the ...

Help, s’il vous plait

China and the World Why so many high-level Chinese visits to Europe?

On Monday, within hours of beating Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Hollande had his first meeting with a foreign ambassador. The South China Morning Post ...

High necklines, low hemlines

Internet & Tech Start-up talks to WiC about selling clothes online in China

Few investment bankers would give up a comfortable salary to move to China to start a new business. And not many bankers would choose to start an ...

Gone to script?

China Ink The latest round of high-level Sino-US talks concluded in Beijing last…

Positive results? The spin in the Chinese media was positive. “Significant,” said the China Daily. “Concrete and tangible” ...

Entertainment Forget Grey’s Anatomy and House – China has Xinshu

As WiC has reported in previous issues (128 and 145) life as a doctor in China is increasingly a high-risk profession, as disgruntled patients look to ...

The trouble with women

Entertainment Three movies are to be released about the mistress who felled…

"Cherchez la femme” – blaming a woman when a man behaves badly – seems to have roots across a number of cultures. One of the best-known ...

Shanghai-on-the-Shannon

China and the World A huge Chinese investment in Ireland is welcomed by locals

"Top of the morning to you, Mr Chen.” It’s a greeting that could soon be heard with increasing frequency in Ireland. The Chinese call the ...

Studying online

Internet & Tech A new course in Yiwu teaches how to be an internet…

Yiwu has been described as the biggest city you’ve never heard of. Others talks of it as the starting point on the modern day Silk Road. And it’s ...

Property Property firms regret past overpaying for land

Ronnie Chan, chairman of Hong Kong’s Hang Lung Properties, is turning out to be something of an oracle. The property mogul pointed out last year ...

Boosting brainpower

Cartoons Boosting brainpower

Many of us still have a recurring nightmare about turning up unprepared for a school exam. And next month, millions of Chinese teenagers will be ...

Raising the Titanic, again

And Finally, Shipping Aussie billionaire and China shipyard to build replica of a legendary…

"Of course it will sink if you put a hole in it,” Clive Palmer told reporters last week, as he announced his plans to build a working replica of the ...