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WiC 163 (Sep 7, 2012)

The $3.9 trillion loan binge

Economy, Talking Point As they report first half results, do China’s banks still look…

Forget turning left for business class on boarding the aircraft. Back in 1974 it was more a case of China’s political elite lacking the foreign ...

Energy & Resources Pilbara mine is now three years late opening

When an Englishman or an Indian hears the acronym MCC, he’ll probably think of cricket and the venerable Marylebone Cricket Club. Founded in 1787 the ...

A crime against fashion

China Consumer Man who faked Hermès bags gets life sentence in prison

An original Hermès Birkin bag can cost upwards of $7,000, but on the lower floor at Beijing’s Silk Market a fake can be acquired for about 1% of ...

China Consumer British retailer Tesco halts China store expansion

Shortly after becoming chief executive of Tesco last year, Philip Clark offered a sporting metaphor to the Financial Times. It was about his strategy ...

Banking & Finance The CSRC tries to lift market sentiment as stocks hit a…

Black Monday has been used a number of times in stock market history to describe cataclysmic events. Most famously there is October 19, 1987, when the ...

Search and destroy

Internet & Tech Ugly battle begins between Baidu and Qihoo 360

Zhou Hongyi is not afraid to punch above his weight. Back in November 2010, the chief executive of antivirus software provider Qihoo 360 engaged in a ...

Housing allowance

Economy Erdos officials look for cash to prolong building spree

Last month, the Inner Mongolian city of Erdos staged the annual Miss World competition. It even hosted a home win, with Miss China Yu Wenxia (see ...

Time for plane speaking

Aviation It’s livid with the EU over carbon tax. So why is Beijing…

Remember Alec Baldwin being ‘deplaned’ last December, when he refused to switch off his iPad? The actor was escorted off the aircraft after a ...

Society Hongkongers protest against new ‘patriotic’ education plan

This week Winston Churchill’s alma mater Harrow opened its doors to 750 students in Hong Kong. Parents in the city are paying at least $21,000-a year ...

Society More corruption scandals erode public’s trust

State media and China’s netizen community have taken a very different view about what happened on flight CA981 on August 29. The Air China flight to ...

Murdering a song

Society Karaoke proves a killer

On paper it would seem that singing karaoke is one of the world’s safer pastimes. It happens indoors, the singer is often sitting down, and the event ...

Coming to America

Entertainment Chinese star Li Bingbing lands role in Hollywood blockbuster

You may have missed the first four Resident Evil films (WiC did too, we must admit). But no matter, there is a reason to catch the latest and ...

Born in the USA

Planet China Reincarnation is a Buddhist belief that links your behaviour in this…

Reincarnation is a Buddhist belief that links your behaviour in this life to how you will be reborn in the next. It’s not a concept that has an ...

Snout in the trough

Cartoons Snout in the trough

Here’s a dysfunctional situation: the price of pig feed in China is now more expensive than human food, reports International Finance News. It points ...