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WiC 19 (Jun 12, 2009)

Auto Industry, Talking Point The vehicular King of Bling capitulates to a manufacturer of dump…

Revered by rap stars and beloved of basketball players, the Hummer sports utility vehicle is on the block as GM fights for survival. And now it could ...

A bitter Pilbara to swallow

China Ink, Energy & Resources The proposed $19.5 billion Rio Tinto-Chinalco tie-up has collapsed.

A victory for the politicians or for the Rio shareholders? A victory for the politicians or for the Rio shareholders? A ...

An electric shock

Environment A new green bike may not be so green after all,…

The world’s best selling bicycle was supposed to inspire international peace, and was to be called the Flying Dove accordingly. But somewhere ...

Farmers’ market

Economy Retailers hope to ride out the downturn by luring rural…

In a very short time, in China’s central, southern and northern provinces, several hundred million peasants will rise like a mighty storm, like a ...

Fast Food Salad favourite of the Uighurs

What is it? Tiger Salad, better known as laohu cai, originated amongst the Uighurs of Xinjiang, in the far west of China. The dish is also popular in ...

Live and Let Lie

Society A tale of sex, fraud and a bogus spy

If it were ever made into a movie it would have to be called The Spy Who Tricked Me. In keeping with the Bond connection, the theme song could be ...

Internet & Tech Curing internet addiction

A doctor in China claims to have discovered the cure to internet addiction. According to the China Daily, patients at Dr Yang Yongxin’s clinic are ...

Society Would you pass the gaokao?

Most WiC readers will not have sat an examination for a while, although a few more might break out in a cold sweat in recalling the experience. In ...

Caught in their net

Entertainment, Section Why does Zhang Ziyi spark indignation among the nation’s netizens?

"There’s no such thing as bad publicity” was the famous remark attributed to Brendan Behan, the Irish poet and playwright. He was actually ...

China’s hospital utopia

Healthcare Why Shenmu is the only place in the nation where it…

There are few government policies in China likely to get the public’s blood pressure up as high as healthcare. Despite the country’s rapid ...

Energy & Resources Inner Mongolia overtakes Shanxi in coal production

When it came to coal, Shanxi province was always China’s ‘Saudi Arabia’. But not any more. In the first quarter of this year an unusual thing ...

Energy & Resources With its GDP plummeting, Shanxi wonders what to do next

As if swine flu weren’t bad enough: Dutch disease is breaking out in China and the province of Shanxi is suffering from a particularly bad ...

China’s new insurance policy

Banking & Finance Banks are finally being allowed to buy equity stakes in insurers

There are not too many areas in which China’s economy lags behind India’s. If quizzed, most people would immediately identify ‘software and ...

Slap and tickle

Planet China It is now official: the world’s stupidest philanderer lives in Zhengzhou,…

It is now official: the world’s stupidest philanderer lives in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province. Affairs are commonplace in China today, and ...

Cartoons The big dig

The big dig The Chinese are looking for a new leader, but they might need to dig him up. Work is beginning on the next phase of excavation of the ...