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WiC 177 (Jan 11, 2013)

Something’s Zhongrong

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Loan nexus between trust firms and Chaori Solar hints at deeper…

In the third season of the British TV drama Downton Abbey, the Earl of Grantham loses the bulk of his wife’s fortune investing in a bankrupt ...

Suning discovers land

Property How an electronics’ retailer became one of China’s biggest property firms

The China edition of Forbes magazine recently named Zhang Jindong its businessperson of the year. The chairman of China’s largest electrical ...

Get the message?

Telecoms China Mobile and Tencent do battle over Weixin and the telco’s…

Tencent, China’s largest internet company by market capitalisation, launched Weixin, a mobile instant-message application in 2011. The application, ...

China Ink Japan has a new government: how has China’s media reacted?

Abe’s win suggests a swing to the right? Xinhua was one of many Chinese newspapers to take note of Abe’s campaign style, ...

Economy China feels economic impact of one of the coldest winters in decades

In 1908 the geographer Zhang Xiangwen plotted a line across the middle of China. Stretching from the Qinling Mountains in the west to the Huai River in ...

Queue for the bus

Auto Industry BYD looks overseas, after sales deadlock at home

"All politics is local” is one of the better-remembered pieces of advice from Tip O’Neill, a long-serving Democrat and rival to Ronald ...

Property SOHO furious as landmark building is copied

In 1994, rising architectural star Zaha Hadid won an international competition to design the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales. But the Welsh ...

University challenge

Economy Despite a pick-up in the economy, graduates are finding it tough…

In recent years, Chinese returnees known as ‘sea-turtles’ have attracted plenty of media attention. With their foreign education and overseas ...

Interrupted public offerings

Banking & Finance The CSRC continues to hold back listings on the A-share market

For the bosses of many Chinese firms, running a listed company is a mark of distinction – something that can differentiate them from their peers. But ...

Move over, Feng Xiaogang

Entertainment Comic movie unexpectedly becomes biggest grossing Chinese film ever

Even with his midas touch, China’s most commercially successful filmmaker Feng Xiaogang couldn’t deliver the bucks with his latest blockbuster ...

Editorial control

Society Southern Weekend staff strike over censorship

"It’s the Sun wot won it,” crowed Rupert Murdoch’s most popular tabloid The Sun, when John Major narrowly beat Neil Kinnock in the British ...

Sport Chinese basketball faces a gambling controversy

Longtime readers of WiC will be familiar with our lengthy list of articles about match-fixing in China’s football leagues. Our favourite example ...

Planet China China’s love affair with online shopping shows no sign of abating.…

China’s love affair with online shopping shows no sign of abating. As we reported in issue 172, on November 11 records were shattered when Rmb19.1 ...

Cartoons Screen test

Adam Smith wrote: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against ...

Stakes are high

And Finally Is the surge in Macau betting a negative sign?

Almost exactly a year ago in WiC133 we talked about gaming revenues in Macau as a warning signal for the Chinese economy at large. The premise was that ...