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WiC 159 (Jul 20, 2012)

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Out of fashion

China Consumer, Talking Point Are luxury goods firms the best leading indicator of a China…

Last year Burberry, the British fashion house, booked Keane, a rock band, to perform at one of its new stores in Beijing. But Burberry will be hoping ...

A meaty problem

Property Yurun boss steps down, but questions remain

The awful conditions in America’s early twentieth century meat-packing industry were exposed to a shocked public in Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel ...

Roll out the barrel

Energy & Resources China is now taking half of Iran’s oil

Must do better, was the message from Hillary Clinton last month, when she spoke of China’s contribution to halting Tehran’s uranium enrichment ...

Breaking the bank

Banking & Finance China Construction Bank gets caught out in Zhejiang’s loan debacle

Everett Dirksen, a former Republican senator for the state of Illinois is remembered less for his legislation than for a throwaway remark that he may ...

Rocky relations

China and the World Maritime tensions fester with Japan and China’s other neighbours

"As was usually the case with these China ‘incidents’ the rights and wrongs of the affair had been thickly cloaked in ambiguity.” So notes JG ...

An American revolution

Economy Chinese media sounds the alarm on rise of robot tailors in…

If Harry Reid has been invited to this month’s opening ceremony for the London Olympiad, organisers would be well advised not to let him anywhere ...

Feast to famine

Auto Industry Guangzhou restricts car sales

For Guangzhou’s car dealers business had never been so good, even if their commercial nirvana was to last just three, short hours. That’s ...

Not quite so electric

Auto Industry After May crash, more speculation about BYD’s future

It wasn’t the kind of presentation that executives at Berkshire Hathaway were expecting. But to demonstrate his firm’s eco-friendly credentials, ...

100 years behind

Agriculture Eye-opening report on Chinese farming

"As one of the four ancient civilisations: China ranks along ancient Egypt, Babylon, and India in its contribution to mankind through ...

The producers

Entertainment New movie sees off Hollywood competition to top box office

Pop the champagne: for the first time this year a Chinese production has proved a smash at the box office. The sequel to the 2008 hit Painted ...

Not baring all

Society CCTV scorned for disguising Michelangelo statue

Is there something about Michelangelo’s statues of David that leads people to act erratically? According to the New York Times a man attacked his ...

Frugal traveller

Who’s Hu Wang Zhenghua

An entrepreneur hailing from Shanghai, Wang Zhenghua first founded Shanghai Spring Tour in 1981. Spring Tour was one of only a handful of private ...

Nice personalities

Planet China The last time there was this much drama at a beauty…

The last time there was this much drama at a beauty contest, Sandra Bullock was toting a gun with her tiara in Miss Congeniality. But last ...

Plumbing new depths

Cartoons Plumbing new depths

Liu Feng knows a thing or two about deep conversations – although less the Hegel and Kant variety, and more the deep sea type. Liu commands the ...

Paper losses

And Finally Qingdao public fails the toilet test

Most readers will know that paper was invented in China. But less well known is that we have the Chinese to thank for toilet paper too. While most ...

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