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WiC 180 (Feb 1, 2013)

Tim Cook’s Chinese whispers

Talking Point, Telecoms Is a deal with China Mobile the answer to Apple’s share…

"The only companies that report better quarters pump oil,” Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook boasted to colleagues last week, after announcing the ...

Sting in the tale

Society The Chongqing blackmail case that won’t go away

In season five of the 1960s period drama Mad Men, the boss of a major car dealership has a seedy proposition for ad executives keen to win a ...

Entertainment Audience annoyed as 007 movie gets scissor treatment

James Bond has vanquished plenty of villains in his time. But even the British superspy proved helpless when he faced off against his toughest enemy ...

Provocative steppe

Energy & Resources Why Shenhua may avoid Mongolian dispute

No wonder people are choking on the air. The news this week is that China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined (3.8 ...

Betting on Qianhai

Rise of the RMB Outlook for new zone prompts property punts

In November 1986, Shenzhen hosted China’s first female bodybuilding contest – a radical undertaking when you consider that no one had donned a ...

Saab set to sizzle?

Auto Industry Swedish brand in green relaunch – but China sales targets look…

In late January, Shanghai experienced a landmark moment: Qian Jun, a local resident, received the keys for his new Roewe E50. According to the Shanghai ...

Aviation Beijing’s second airport moves a step closer, at a cost of…

It was a case of first the smog and then the snow for Beijing’s long-suffering air passengers last month, after hundreds 0f flights were either ...

The network news

Telecoms While Huawei pays staff big bonuses, ZTE is reporting a record…

In Boeing’s bitter rivalry with Airbus, it always seems that when one manufacturer is up, the other is down. The recent grounding of Boeing’s ...

She’s got talent

Red Star Yi Nengjing

Yi Nengjing, 43, was born in Taipei and started her career writing and singing Mandarin pop songs. After success as a singer, Yi began acting in films ...

Who’s Hu Gong Hongjia

Born in 1965, Gong Hongjia would later become a leading angel investor in the Chinese technology sector. But at school he showed few signs of being ...

Economy Official Gini number is released at last – but the response…

Born in 1884, Corrado Gini led a distinguished career as a statistician, even if his politics deviated away from the mean to the extreme end of the ...

Food for thought

Society New campaign calls for an end to waste

How much is too much to leave on your plate? China may soon have to answer that question if Yuan Longping – the father of hybrid rice as he is known ...

Running out of breath

Cartoons Running out of breath

Beijing’s ‘air-pocalypse’ grabbed international headlines two weekends ago (see WiC178) and the quality of the capital’s air plunged again this ...

Election climax

And Finally Why Gansu politics will never be the same again

While China may be rather prudish about showing sex on screen, its attitude to actresses with careers in eroticism seems more relaxed, if the case of ...