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WiC 154 (Jun 15, 2012)

Energy & Resources, Talking Point Unfazed by new US tariffs, Hanergy positions itself for solar dominance

This week WiC introduces the Bayerischer Klaps-Tanz as a management tool. For those more attuned to McKinsey terminology, this one translates ...

Stomach for a fight

China Consumer Two Taiwanese rivals are battling over China’s instant noodle market

In 1958, Momofuku Ando, founder of Nissin Food Products, created the world’s first instant noodle. Half a century later, it is the Chinese who are ...

Sasac’s not on board

Banking & Finance Gree’s shareholders offer a rare snub to government

Yale University is consistently ranked as one of the best schools in the US. It is also extremely selective, with an acceptance rate of just 6.8% this ...

Feeling bearish

China and the World Russia seeks to boost ties with China

George W Bush recalls that when he first met Vladimir Putin twelve years ago, the Russian leader was strangely transfixed by the presence of Bush’s ...

Energy & Resources Coal prices are on the slide in China

Many foreigners get exasperated by translators. Take Herbert Hoover, America’s 31st president. When he was working in China in his youth, Hoover ...

Taking its toll

Rail & Infrastructure Do contracts matter to Guangdong’s local government?

At the end of May investors in the Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) got a nasty shock when they were informed that revenues from a ...

Clearing the air

China Ink Environmental regulators in US monitoring fury

Why has PM2.5 flared up as an issue again? Largely because the Ministry of Environmental Protection has asked embassies to stop ...

Economy Is Foshan a weathervane for China’s economy?

It is the hometown of Chinese martial arts legends like Ip Man and Huang Feihong. Even Bruce Lee studied kung fu there. But today, Foshan, a city of ...

Key Figures Emperor Gaodi

Farmer’s son and police officer, Emperor Gaodi, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty in 202 BC, was an unusual figure who founded perhaps the most ...

Society Fujian’s landmark decision

It’s annual gaokao season. That’s the time of the year when China turns strangely quiet. Commercial and military flights are rerouted to ...

Society China’s controversial stadium

The original Wembley Stadium stood for 80 years, before its demolition in 2003. That looks like a decent run, and especially so by Chinese standards. ...

Pardon my French

Entertainment Former Google boss organises petition to boycott “bullying” TV show

Lee Kai-fu is a busy man. In addition to running Innovation Works, a venture capital firm he started in 2009, the former head of Google China also ...

Best foot forward

Planet China It’s common to hear of people ‘taking to the streets’ but…

It’s common to hear of people ‘taking to the streets’ but less frequently of civil servants doing so. But according to China Youth Daily this is ...

Riding to the rescue

Cartoons Riding to the rescue

‘Hangzhou-based damsel-in-distress seeks knight in shining armour.’ It may sound like a note in a personal column but it fairly accurately ...

Must try harder

And Finally Nanjing parents turn against rugby

"The meeting of sullied bodies in physical contact cannot be approved.” That was how China’s National Sports Council is said to have worded a ...