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WiC 190 (Apr 26, 2013)
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M&A, Talking Point International M&A deals now face a formidable hurdle: China

Long stretches of China’s commercial history have been about defending domestic monopolies rather than worrying about anti-competitive behaviour. The ...

The gathering storm
Banking & Finance After wave of arrests, is Wang Qishan finally cleaning up the bond…

When Wang Qishan heard the news of Lehman Brothers’ implosion on September 14, 2008, he was leading a trade delegation to Washington. As the former ...

Golden chance
Energy & Resources Falling gold price attracts mass Chinese buying

Early this year Fujian tycoon Wu Duanbiao grabbed headlines when he threw a lavish wedding for his daughter. But what really caught attention was the ...

Political donations
Economy In the aftermath of the Ya’an quake, new spotlight on charitable…

For Chen Ying what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life, soon became one of the saddest. Chen was scheduled to be married on Saturday, ...

Game for anything
Internet & Tech “China’s Facebook” – Renren – changes direction

Facebook listed in May 2012, with an IPO price of $38 a share. Now it hovers around $26. But its stock performance is still a lot better than that of ...

Power broker
China and the World Pakistan to buy Chinese nuclear reactor

With North Korea’s nuclear machinations dominating the headlines in recent months, it is easy to forget that China has another atomically-ambitious ...

Xinjiang’s richest man
Who’s Hu Sun Guangxin

Sun Guangxin, chairman of Guanghui Industry Investment and dubbed as “Xinjiang’s richest man”, has a few things in common with Rabiya Kadeer, ...

Lot of hang ups
Cross Strait China Mobile gives up Taiwanese acquisition

Back in 2010, the Hong Kong-listed battery maker China Strategic led a consortium hoping to acquire Nan Shan, one of Taiwan’s largest life insurers, ...

Hardly a page turner
China Consumer Is Amazon’s Kindle device finally set to launch in China?

In 2009, Jeff Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, told a bewildered audience that he was separating the Kindle hardware business from its online store ...

Out of their depth
Entertainment Drowning at diving show raises concerns about stars’ safety

While it is no secret that Chinese audiences love Transformers (the most recent iteration of the blockbuster franchise took over $165 million ...

Taken for a ride
Society Did Xi Jinping hail a Beijing cab?

According to a documentary series produced by Phoenix TV, Mao Zedong attempted three incognito walkabouts while Chinese leader. None quite worked out. ...

In hot water
Planet China We’ve all forgotten to turn the taps off once or twice.…

We’ve all forgotten to turn the taps off once or twice. But in Jilin City in China’s northeast, one man did so quite deliberately – and for the ...

The Cecil Rhodes of China
Cartoons The Cecil Rhodes of China

In his lifetime Cecil Rhodes made a fortune from diamonds. But he is better remembered for bequeathing a chunk of his wealth to endow the Rhodes ...

Pay-per-view
And Finally Should a village be allowed to charge visitors?

This is how writer Shen Congwen describes the fictionalised version of his actual birthplace Fenghuang in his much-loved novel Border ...

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