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WiC 188 (Apr 12, 2013)

Can’t chat, gone shopping

Talking Point, Telecoms Tencent set for global growth. But government policy at home is…

Call it the one that got away. Denied loans by Chinese banks in 1999, Ma Huateng, Tencent’s co-founder and chief executive, approached Richard Li, ...

Rail & Infrastructure Dalian plans world’s largest undersea project

No one could accuse the builders of the Channel Tunnel of acting in haste. The idea was first proposed in 1802 by French engineer Albert Mathieu, who ...

A billion sports fans watch it

Media & Gaming CCTV-5 is one of the world’s most powerful sports channels

Why do our cable bills keep going up? The answer to a question that has irritated American TV audiences for years is particularly galling for ...

Not masking truth this time

Healthcare As new virus spreads, Beijing has learned lessons from its SARS mistakes

Almost 10 years ago to the day, the Chinese government acknowledged what many already suspected: that it had been attempting to hide an outbreak of a ...

Deal faces dead end

M&A Regulators drag their feet on funeral business acquisition

Death continues to be big business in China. As the locals lined up to pay their respects to the dead during last week’s Qingming festival, US radio ...

Experiencing tailbacks

Auto Industry Investigation into senior bosses behaviour won’t help FAW’s IPO quest

As its name suggests, First Automobile Works was the pioneer when it came to opening an automotive factory in China (for trucks, not cars, in 1953). ...

Cross Strait Taiwanese banks for sale, but not newspapers

You can own a little more of our banks, but stay away from our newspapers. That was the message for mainland China this month, as the Taiwanese sent ...

China’s richest shoemaker

Who’s Hu Tang Yiu

On all the rich lists ranking Hong Kong’s billionaires, the top 10 positions are always dominated by the usual suspects: real estate tycoons. Tang ...

Entertainment US studios are releasing Chinese versions of films to appeal to…

In 2011, four Chinese brands – Lenovo, Yili Milk, Metersbonwe and electronics company TCL – all paid millions of dollars to have their products ...

Society Nobel prize winner’s novel attacks China’s food safety

When more than 10,000 dead pigs turned up in the Huangpu River last month, the general public was soon asking how they got there. Yet the mystery has ...

China Ink After two weeks of media criticism, Apple issued an apology to…

Sorry seems to be the hardest word… What started out with a broadside from CCTV (see WiC186) about deficiencies in Apple’s ...

Robotic service

Planet China Serving staff at restaurants often seem to go through the motions,…

Serving staff at restaurants often seem to go through the motions, only bothering to show a little spark once the meal nears its conclusion and the ...

Not a slam dunk case

Cartoons Not a slam dunk case

With a line of shoes in his name, and the famous image of his sporting leap branded across so many products, Michael Jordan must rank as one of the ...

China receives Bill

And Finally Netizens question Boao Forum speech by Gates

By his own admission, Bill Gates was never the trendy one when comparisons were drawn with his industry rival Steve Jobs. But now, the founder of ...