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WiC 156 (Jun 29, 2012)

Best friends forever

China and the World, Talking Point Brazil and China announce a slew of new trade and finance…

Remember the vuvuzela? Few will forget the ear-piercing sound of that Chinese-made plastic trumpet, which fans blew at the soccer World Cup in South ...

“I’ve sold millions of them”

Telecoms Chinese entrepreneur releases an iPhone lookalike that costs $62

Prior to his death in October last year, Apple’s Steve Jobs accused Google of ripping off the iPhone in the design of its Android mobile operating ...

Energy & Resources Chalco’s acquisition of SouthGobi in Mongolia is not going smoothly

On June 18, reporters, bankers and consultants crowded into the Beijing Jade Palace Hotel to hear Liu Xin, a self-proclaimed former employee of ...

They’re the pits

Economy Local media focuses on the huge fortunes of Shanxi’s coalmine bosses

It was not the type of story likely to improved the reputation of China’s coalmine bosses. Last week, 21CN Business Herald reported that Hao ...

Healthcare Graft scandal shakes Shenzhen medical system

Healthcare reform is in the headlines again courtesy of the American Supreme Court, which this week ruled on whether President Obama’s changes to the ...

China Consumer COFCO hopes Danish partner will boost trust in China’s biggest dairy…

"I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole’ is an American expression with a usage going back as least as far as 1843. That’s the year it first ...

Shanghai calling

Red Star Zhu Zhu

Zhu Zhu, whose grandfather was a Communist Party general, was raised in Beijing. She began learning the piano at three and is also said to have a knack ...

Who’s Hu Zhou Jianping

Zhou Jianping was born in Xinqiao, a small town in Jiangsu province, in 1961. His first job was at the town’s cultural centre, before he opened his ...

Art of investing

Society Is now the time to start collecting modern Chinese art?

Given the country’s professedly neutral stance on many issues, you may wonder what Swiss ambassadors get passionate about. If Uli Sigg is anything ...

Entertainment Stan Lee creates a Chinese hero

Stan Lee has helped to create some of the world’s best-known superheroes: Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and Thor among them. But does the 89 ...

A European affair

Sport Why Chinese audiences are in love with the Euro 2012 soccer…

Jiang Xiaoshan died in the early hours of June 19. Cause of death? Watching too much football. According to the Sanxiang Metropolis newspaper the 26 ...

Treasured islands

China and the World Why Terry Gou wants to buy the Diaoyu Islands

The only thing that billionaires seem to love more than holidaying on a tropical island is purchasing one. Further evidence of this emerged last week ...

Planet China For Xi’an Channel 2, it seemed like the scoop of the…

For Xi’an Channel 2, it seemed like the scoop of the year. To much excitement, it broadcast images of an “unidentified fleshy monster” supposedly ...

The problem with metrosexuals

Cartoons The problem with metrosexuals

You won’t be surprised to hear that China’s subway trains are crowded places. That’s made them popular with perverts, with female passengers ...

Feeling diplomatic

And Finally India nervous over Bhutan’s China overture

Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal might all be India’s neighbours, but it is China that they are more likely to see as their friend. In a ...