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WiC 164 (Sep 14, 2012)

Economy, Talking Point Wang Lijun’s trial comes at a delicate time for China’s political…

In the 1987 Paul Verhoeven movie Robocop there is a scene in which the crime fighter tries to arrest a corrupt executive at OCP, the company ...

Property Xi’an has big idea to boost real estate sales

In 119BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built the Kunming Lake near Xi’an. He did so to increase the local water supply and, more importantly, to ...

Year of the (sea) dragon

China Consumer Scotland’s top distilleries see huge growth in China’s demand for whisky

Aside from golf, Scotland's most high-profile export to China is whisky. Morrison Bowmore is one of Scotland's most prestigious distilleries and has ...

A costly acquisition

China and the World Japan’s island “purchase” leads to Hu and Noda rowing in corridor

When a Chinese leader meets a foreign dignitary, it’s usually a fairly stage-managed affair. You know the drill: the obligatory photos in the Great ...

The east is red

Environment Controversy over colour of Yangtze River

In its journey of almost 6,500 kilometres from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River takes on many hues. At its source in ...

Economy To rescue finances local governments put the squeeze on small businesses…

Back in 1776, Adam Smith highlighted how a tax system needs to be consistent. It was essential, Smith argued, that people knew how much they had to ...

Society Why more girls are getting into university than boys

Ouyang Le was upset this summer when she was told that she hadn’t been accepted to study at the Institute of International Relations. That’s ...

Shanghai surprise

Sport Boardroom dispute sullies Drogba’s China experience

In 2005 Didier Drogba brought an end to a bloody civil war in his native Ivory Coast. The footballer intervened just after he’d helped his national ...

Friends and admirers

Entertainment Is China’s most popular sitcom just plagiarising US shows?

What do you think of this as a premise for a brand new TV series? A group of twenty-somethings live in adjacent apartments and spend a lot of time ...

Picking up pace

M&A Shandong Heavy buys forklift firm in China’s largest German acquisition

Earlier this year Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer Sany Heavy Industries acquired German concrete pump maker Putzmeister. A day after the deal ...

Planet China When it comes to getting divorces, Liz Taylor takes some beating.…

When it comes to getting divorces, Liz Taylor takes some beating. She had seven husbands, after all, and even married one of them twice (actor Richard ...

Cartoons Red letter day

Next year is the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth. And it’s a date that the city of Xiangtan intends to take full advantage of. According to ...

And Finally Forget the euro, Germany has another big problem: Chinese hairy crabs

As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another’s treasure. And it turns out to apply even to China’s famous hairy crabs. The dark-green ...