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WiC 189 (Apr 19, 2013)

The bank that Chen built

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Control of the most powerful fiefdom in Chinese finance has just…

In the Beijing headquarters of CDB Capital, the private equity arm of China Development Bank, there are three busts in the lobby. One commemorates Mao ...

Who’d eat chicken?

Economy Bird flu sees sales drop for KFC

"Almost all flu infections begin in China and then spread to Europe,” Christoph Scholtissek told the Wall Street Journal this month. Scholtissek, a ...

Iron lady required

Energy & Resources MIIT’s latest policy push in the steel sector will lack Thatcherite…

Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest this week but the polarising debate about her legacy looks likely to live on for years. Much of the disagreement ...

Economy Fitch downgrades China’s sovereign debt

As one of the world’s most successful investors, George Soros can claim to have made the right call more often than the wrong one. But even he might ...

Buying up Motown

Property An unloved American city attracts Chinese buyers

This week California governor Jerry Brown wrapped up his trip to China, during which hundreds of business cards will have been exchanged and plenty ...

Against the grain

China Consumer Milk and wine producers struggle to regain consumer confidence

CCTV’s annual auction of primetime advertising slots has long been considered a useful economic indicator. Last year, companies spent a record $255 ...

Banking & Finance Food firm bucks dividend trend with special offer

When “sesame and mung beans” are at stake, goes a Chinese idiom, very little of value is likely to be up for grabs. The A-share market has just ...

Quentin’s chained in China

Entertainment Tarantino film pulled from cinemas in last-minute scramble

I n what could easily double up as an elocution test, the merging of the press and broadcasting regulators (GAPP and SARFT) has sired a new super ...

Not masters yet

Sport Golfer Guan impresses, while boxer Zou waits for his shot

Guan Tianlang’s debut at the Masters last week was calmness personified, behaviour that some sections of the international press might do well to ...

Society “$9 billion” mayor now better known for his bathing habits

A camper van worth €1,000 ($1,305) and a scooter valued at just €900 were two of the more mundane assets disclosed by members of Francois ...

Planet China Regular readers of WiC will be familiar with Huaxi, the place…

Regular readers of WiC will be familiar with Huaxi, the place in Jiangsu that terms itself as “China’s richest village” (see WiC130). Huaxi has ...

The icewoman cometh

Cartoons The icewoman cometh

The visit of Iceland’s prime minister to Beijing this week was viewed as a landmark moment (and not because the world’s first openly-gay leader ...

Private kitchens

And Finally Banquet clampdown leads to creative solutions

At first glance, number 71 looks much like any other Qing dynasty building in Beijige San Tiao hutong, an old alley way in central Beijing. With walls ...