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WiC 18 (Jun 5, 2009)

Lenovo hopes for an end to those Big Blue days

Internet & Tech China’s first ‘multinational’ switches to plan B

He was supposed to be China’s first global capitalist, carrying the country’s reputation before him into international markets. So when Yang ...

Netizens of the world unite

Internet & Tech, Talking Point In many parts of the world justice is blind; in China…

"I’ll beat you to death with money. I am going to summon a truckload of money and squash you to death.” It’s not the sort of remark you’d ...

Sport China Open to get IMG touch

Beating Rafael Nadal at tennis on clay is meant to be all but impossible. In fact, the Spaniard hasn’t been beaten on clay at the French Open for ...

A very sub-prime borrower

Property Zou Qing gets a life sentence after fraudulently applying for 199…

At a business forum several years ago in Yunnan Province, Wang Shi, the chairman of Vanke, the largest publicly traded property developer in China, ...

Three kings do battle

Energy & Resources A three-way war for China’s oil business has commenced

As every Chinese schoolchild knows, between the years of 220 and 280 their country was split into three kingdoms: Wei, Shu and Wu. It was an era of ...

Destroy it and they will come

Society Urban heritage at threat in two cities

Talk of China’s fast-eroding architectural heritage usually focuses on Beijing’s central district of hutongs. There are now only about 500 ...

Granny’s got talent

Entertainment Sentiment sells in China too

Granny’s got talent Sentiment sells in China too She was a rather dishevelled 48 year-old who lived a quiet and ordinary life with her mother in ...

Making new friends

Entertainment Why a local drama inspired by a US show marks a…

To a generation that lived in the 1970s, the word ‘struggle’ is associated with the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, and in particular with ...

Bags of savings

Environment Statistic of the week: China now uses 40 billion fewer plastic…

A man dressed as Charlie Chaplin is on a mission. He waddles around the city of Zhengzhou twirling his cane and trying to persuade shoppers at a ...

Visiting the bank manager

China and the World, China Ink Tim Geithner was in Beijing at the beginning of the week…

So into the lion's den... The Beijing-based Global Times was waiting with a survey of 23 Chinese economists, 17 of which deemed it ...

Intangible lending

Banking & Finance Chinese banks experiment with loans collateralised by patents

The year 1421 was more seminal to the course of world history than most people think. It was a year in which China launched the greatest navy that ...

Planet China In the pantheon of unintended consequences, it has to rank as…

In the pantheon of unintended consequences, it has to rank as one of the stranger examples. Hospital bills in China can be huge, so it was a major boon ...

Macau’s new Bubble

Cartoons Macau’s new Bubble

Monte Carlo enjoys The Belle Epoque. Vegas boasts The Bellagio. And now Macau has The Bubble. Or at least that is what the City of Dreams will be ...

And Finally Charlatans abound in China’s management training industry

Peter Drucker was reluctant to be referred to as a ‘guru’. The world’s leading management thinker had come to the conclusion that gurus were all ...