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WiC 166 (Sep 28, 2012)

Darkest before the dawn?

Energy & Resources, Property, Talking Point Steel industry in crisis – hopes pinned on a recovery in…

China currently has 470 skyscrapers. Within a decade it plans to add 848 more. Yes, you read that correctly: 848. That’s according to a new report ...

Paris without the French

China Tourist Adelson sees no end to the growth in his revenues in…

In 1999, Las Vegas sought to attract new visitors by building the Paris Las Vegas, a 50-storey replica of the Eiffel Tower. It proved popular, ...

How low can it go?

Banking & Finance It’s official, China’s stock market is now world’s worst performing

On Wednesday the Shanghai Composite Index plunged through the psychological barrier of 2,000 points, making Shanghai the worst-performing market ...

Internet & Tech Why did 2,000 Hon Hai workers go berserk?

While Tim Cook was making an upbeat statement on Monday that an initial quota of five million iPhone 5s had sold out (Apple was “working hard to ...

Economy Court delivers Wang Lijun verdict

A joke doing the rounds on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, goes like this: Three men are sitting in prison and the conversation turns to ...

Political football

Economy The new mantra in US politics: just blame China

"Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic ...

The view from Tokyo

China and the World What the Japanese press are saying about nation’s dispute with China

In 1982, the UK fought a war over the Falkland Islands. Until their seizure by Argentina, the islands were little known in Britain. But their loss ...

Getting Shanghaied

Entertainment Hollywood movie sees script rewritten to feature Chinese setting

Before Looper was screened at the Toronto Film Festival, the gathering’s artistic director Cameron Bailey told a glitzy Roy Thomson Hall ...

Jersey Shore no more

Red Star Yi Jianlian

Yi Jianlian, 25, got his big break in 2002 when he joined Guangdong Hongyuan, a top team in China. Two years later Yi was selected for the Chinese ...

‘Yes, minister’ Chinese-style

Society New novel lifts lid on what it’s like to be a…

"It is safe to say that the Chinese invented modern bureaucracy,” the historian Francis Fukuyama writes in The Origins of Political Order. ...

Animal athletics

Planet China London had the Olympic games and the Paralympics. Not to be…

London had the Olympic games and the Paralympics. Not to be outdone, Shanghai has revealed an ‘animal Olympics’ – though, as you might expect, ...

A land of superlatives

And Finally Guinness capitalises on Chinese fetish for breaking world records

One could argue that just by dint of being born, every Chinese person participates in breaking a world record – that of the country with the greatest ...