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WiC 175 (Dec 7, 2012)

End of the line

Economy, Talking Point Bangladesh sees garment growth, but China hasn’t lost its label yet

"$18 a dozen, quality absolutely guaranteed” sounds like a fairly standard sales pitch. Especially as it was heard last month at a trade show in ...

Internet & Tech Why Nasdaq-listed YY has unique business

Who says being a karaoke singer isn’t a proper career choice? In China, many amateur singers are now making a living crooning online, thanks to ...

“Democracy won’t work”

Economy Author says China needs to be governed using Confucian principles

People will sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to seek out expert opinion. For example, in the early 1920s TE Lawrence – better known as Lawrence ...

London stalling

Banking & Finance Chinese banks say their business operations are being limited in the…

Chinese banks didn’t start arriving in London in numbers until after the financial crisis. But since then, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank ...

China and the World Controversy erupts over new China passport

Henry V is better known for waging war than for creating the modern passport. But according to the UK’s Home Office the victor of the battle of ...

China Tourist Discounts galore in online travel agency booking battle

Another week, another price war. After 360Buy grabbed headlines in September for opening hostilities with electronics retailers Suning and GOME, two of ...

The bill, please

China Consumer Is restaurateur switching citizenship before IPO?

"I’m Chinese and the blood in my body is Chinese,” celebrity restaurateur Zhang Lan told Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV in 2010, adding that she had ...

Worth waiting for?

Entertainment China’s version of Daniel Day-Lewis devoted years to latest film

For his role in The Last of the Mohicans, actor Daniel Day-Lewis taught himself to build a canoe, shoot a flintlock and trap and skin animals. ...

Fit for purpose?

Sport Race deaths lead to questions about China’s marathons

Urban marathons, if staged well, offer great publicity for their hosts. They can showcase municipal infrastructure, demonstrate a city’s ability to ...

Poet's Corner Li Bai

Anyone who thought Xi Jinping might celebrate promotion to the top rung of the Chinese leadership with a celebration or two was sadly ...

Planet China The Beatles were so aggrieved at their tax bill that they…

The Beatles were so aggrieved at their tax bill that they penned the song, Taxman (“If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat/ If you try to ...

Recreating China, near Sydney

Cartoons Recreating China, near Sydney

Only 0.2% of Wyong Shire’s population of 150,000 claims Chinese ancestry. But the Australian area may soon see a spike in Chinese faces. That’s ...

And Finally A road is blocked not by traffic but by a house

When the bulldozers came to demolish the Luo family home, they didn’t have a hard time finding it. It was standing right in the middle of a brand ...