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WiC 151 (May 25, 2012)

Energy & Resources, Talking Point All you need to know about shale gas and Beijing’s ambitions…

We first mentioned ‘Iron Man’ Wang Jinxi in WiC34. A shepherd-turned-oilman, Wang was revered for his commitment to China’s virgin oilfields in ...

Auto Industry Why Ferrari can’t stay out of the news in China

There’s no such thing as bad publicity, or so the saying goes. If that’s the case then Ferrari has been getting a lot of free advertising in China ...

M&A A Dalian billionaire makes a bold purchase of US cinema giant,…

The first building dedicated to showing movies opened in July 1896 in New Orleans. It was called Vitascope Hall, after Thomas Edison’s Vitascope ...

Energy & Resources Chinese copper mining IPOs face rough markets

Last month 1,200 metres of overhead copper cabling was stolen from Edmonton Green, north London, causing severe delays to city-bound trains. Why ...

China Ink The stand off between China and the Philippines at Scarborough Shoal…

What are the respective claims? On the Chinese side they’re primarily historical, including a map from 1279 showing the shoal ...

Telecoms Why Baidu is launching a cheap smartphone

Remember Xiaomi? The Chinese start-up raised eyebrows last year when it promised to deliver a smartphone rivalling the processing power of Apple’s ...

Red Star Ling Hua and Zeng Yi

Ling Hua comes from Inner Mongolia and Zeng Yi from Hunan, but the two met in 1998 in the city of Guangzhou, where both were working as migrant ...

Internet & Tech Top internet firm reorganises into six groups

While most internet firms in China dominate a specific area – Baidu in search and Alibaba in e-commerce – Tencent is something of an exception. Not ...

Internet & Tech Alibaba to buy out US firm

Like many estranged couples, Alibaba and Yahoo’s road to divorce has been a long and painful one. But the two firms, stuck in a loveless embrace for ...

Entertainment Hollywood’s Kevin Spacey stars in his first Chinese movie

First it was Hugh Jackman. Then it was Christian Bale and more recently Keanu Reeves also made the switch. The latest Hollywood actor to test the ...

Who’s Hu Wei Jianjun

Wei Jianjun was born in 1964 in Beijing but moved with his family to Baoding in Heibei province. His father then left the army to become a businessman ...

Sport One of Italy’s top football coaches is lured to Guangzhou

"My arrival may be the most important thing for China today,” Marcello Lippi told a televised press conference last week. It was quite a ...

Society Sohu causes stir in comments about Zuckerberg’s wife

Calling Priscilla Chan, the long-time girlfriend and now wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg “short and dark” isn’t especially nice. To do ...

Planet China We’re all familiar with the game ‘musical statues’ but a German…

We’re all familiar with the game ‘musical statues’ but a German art student decided to take the children’s party favourite to a whole new ...

Cartoons The Pirates of Pyongyang

Chinese fishermen are regularly getting into spats over their choice of fishing ground. In a well publicised case (see WiC78), one fishing boat captain ...

And Finally 'China’s Charlie Rose’ causes offence online

Foreigners in Beijing are advised to keep their heads down this month, especially if they bump into TV personalities. The advice follows two cases in ...