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WiC 158 (Jul 13, 2012)

It’s worse than expected

Economy, Talking Point As growth slows, Beijing has a policy dilemma

On the eve of World War II the British government printed millions of posters with the slogan: “Keep calm and carry on”. The posters were never ...

Others Looking for some summer reading about China? Here are the WiC…

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China By Ezra F. Vogel Admittedly it may be a little cerebral for ...

Banking & Finance Citron causes Evergrande to plunge. Media asks who is behind the…

On May 17 property tycoon Xu Jiayin likely felt flushed with success, as the news flashed around the footballing world that he’d lured Italy’s ...

Investment rollercoaster

Entertainment Huayi Brothers looks to diversify from films into theme parks and…

It was supposed to be called Mickey Mouse Park. But by the time a 160-acre orange orchard had been found its name had changed to Disneyland. It opened ...

Money from thin air

Telecoms China Mobile and UnionPay team up to develop mobile payment system

In the British Museum there is an oblong gold coin stamped with the image of a lion and a bull. As the museum’s director Neil MacGregor points out, ...

Cleared for takeoff

Property Dalian Wanda's controversial new tower gets airport thumbs-down

While most buildings in China are not built to last – the vice-minister for construction, Qiu Baoxin, after all declared two years ago that the bulk ...

Society Government in soup, again

It is often said that one of the advantages of China’s one-party system is that it gets things done fast. That being so, many Chinese netizens ...

Sport China's veggie volleyballers

What do Martina Navratilova, Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson all have in common? They’re all hall-of-fame athletes who are also vegetarians (Tyson is the ...

China Ink A look back at how the press covered protests against a…

A victory for the protesters? Han Han, a prominent blogger with 5.5 million weibo followers, said the incident showed that the ...

Crocodile tears

Planet China It’s not often you hear about crocodiles getting rescued. Mostly they…

It’s not often you hear about crocodiles getting rescued. Mostly they do the killing, after all. But news emerged this week that police had ...

Wishing you the best of British

Cartoons Wishing you the best of British

In a move timed to coincide with the start of the London Olympics, baijiu brand Shui Jing Fang will go on sale in the UK next week. Chinese visitors to ...

And Finally Evian faces a PR crisis as it fails a government quality…

At South Florida’s Hotel Victor, spa guests can enjoy a nice bath that’s sprinkled with rose petals and filled with 1,000 bottles of Evian water. ...