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WiC 195 (May 31, 2013)

The elephant in the room

Economy, Talking Point A bad month for China’s ‘Ministry of State Capitalism’, the NDRC

Woody Allen is better known for making comedies than thrillers but Match Point is an exception to the rule, starring Scarlett Johansson as ...

China Consumer Third time lucky for French dairy firm in China?

Almost exactly a year ago Song Kungang, chairman of the China Dairy Industry Association, declared that the quality of domestic dairy products, ...

Healthcare BGI puts China at the forefront of the new science of…

Scientist Eric Lander was one of the key figures in mapping the human genome – the $3 billion project that laid bare our genetic blueprint, in what ...

Banking & Finance Authorities renew attack on copper financing

For seasoned investors in copper, stories of shadowy traders from China roiling the market won’t sound too unfamiliar. In November 2005 global ...

Internet & Tech It has 400 million users. But have you heard of it?

In 2004, Sergey Brin went to Beijing to visit Baidu, the Chinese search giant. Trying gamely to make conversation, Brin asked Baidu founder Robin Li if ...

Shangliners not welcome

Energy & Resources Thousands of Chinese from Guangxi have gone to Ghana to mine gold

In Tuscany they call Prato “Little Wenzhou”, owing to the number of immigrants who have arrived from the city in Zhejiang province. As we pointed ...

Too much metal in the diet

Environment Guangdongers panic over news that rice contains excessive cadmium

Cadmium is used in batteries, electroplating for aircraft and in some paints and pigments. But the soft bluish-white metal similar to zinc and ...

Diamond bachelor

Who’s Hu Li Houlin

A Wang Lao Wu in Chinese slang means a middle-aged bachelor (it comes from the title of a 1938 Shanghai film starring Mao Zedong’s wife ...

Property Guangfeng is China’s excavation capital

When Li Kezun, from Guangfeng in Jiangxi, visited Shanghai in 1997, he was struck by the construction boom going on in the city. After he returned ...

Enlight-ening strategy

Entertainment Why Wang Changtian’s studio is on a winning streak

Hollywood has never been too interested in movies about business start-ups. But with the drama that surrounded Mark Zuckerberg’s founding of ...

World of Weibo Peer pressure

“Hello netizens of Spring City! I am Kunming’s mayor Li Wenrong and today I opened a Sina microblog.” It was a cheery opening for the ...

Planet China Driving in a Chinese city is chaotic enough at the best…

Driving in a Chinese city is chaotic enough at the best of times. So imagine what happens when the traffic lights get turned off? This is what happened ...

Tough at the top

Cartoons Tough at the top

A hot seat but also an empty one is how the media is describing the unfilled top role at China Investment Corporation, the country’s $500 billion ...

Rewriting history

And Finally Chinese teenager causes stir with Egypt antics

Taking teenagers on holiday is rarely straightforward. But few such holidays have generated quite the extent of the misery experienced by one family ...