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WiC 178 (Jan 18, 2013)

Clearing the air

Environment, Talking Point A long way to go, but at least Beijing is acknowledging…

London’s history of smoky air is recorded in pictures, prose and song. The impressionist Claude Monet came to the British capital to paint its smog ...

The great outdoors

China Consumer Han Han signs deal with ‘China’s North Face'

When Han Han is not working on his writing career (blogging as well as hugely popular teenage novels) he races cars professionally, releases pop music ...

Fu’s cultural evolution

Society New must-read book on China’s entrepreneurialism

It’s not often a book starts with a description of its author being deported. And it’s all the more unusual when the writer is being exiled from ...

The search goes on

Internet & Tech Qihoo challenge to Baidu grows, with new Google tie-up planned

Qihoo’s chief executive Zhou Hongyi seems to relish confrontation with his rivals. Notoriously he scoffed that Tencent – China’s largest internet ...

A finger lickin’ apology

China Consumer Chicken crisis embroils Yum and other foreign brands

Warren Liu recalls that he lost count of the number of chicken farms he visited in China. As a vice-president for KFC it was the part of the job he ...

Another one bites the dust…

Banking & Finance President of Postal Savings Bank arrested – IPO plans likely to…

When the president of the Postal Savings Bank of China Tao Liming was first detained in June last year, the country’s fifth-largest bank by deposits ...

Bye bye B-shares

Property Vanke heads for Hong Kong, but looks further

Vanke, China’s largest homebuilder by revenue, is moving home itself. At the end of December the company announced plans to convert all of its ...

From Russia, without love

China and the World Businessman asks Beijing for help in getting his forest back

History students in Britain might remember 1689 as the year of the country’s Glorious Revolution (glorious for its lack of bloodshed, as well as ...

Not the marrying type

Entertainment ‘Leftover women’ still a topic for debate, featuring in 12 TV…

The question weighing most on Zong Fuli, only daughter of beverage tycoon Zong Qinghou, also China’s richest man, isn’t how best to grow Wahaha, ...

And the most corrupt nation is…

Cartoons And the most corrupt nation is…

n movies like Shanghai Noon action star Jackie Chan won over American audiences with his slapstick kung-fu routines. Chan doesn’t seem to be ...

Would Mao agree?

And Finally Ambitious new plan for revolutionary hotspot

When the American journalist Edgar Snow visited Mao Zedong in Yan’an in 1939, Mao was living in a three-room cave “furnished with a rickety chair ...