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WiC 203 (Jul 26, 2013)

Healthcare, Talking Point GSK bribery headache reveals seedy side of China’s healthcare boom

The word “tabloid” has its origin in compressed medicine tablets, a technique that invigorated the pharmaceutical industry in the late nineteenth ...

China Consumer Russian tipple triggers bitter beverage row

What’s the most popular Russian drink in China? Most would probably say vodka but recent trends suggest it’s actually a bubbly brown beverage made ...

A rate still to go

Banking & Finance Central bank frees up lending rates amid concerns over shadow banking

Earlier this month, people started to gather outside the People’s Bank of China branch in Beihai, a coastal city in Guangxi province. They had heard ...

Wanting cashback

China Consumer Will Hong Kong tycoon sell supermarket chain?

Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing likes to stay ahead. He is said to set his watch 20 minutes fast, for instance. An early riser, he also wakes at 5am ...

Property The Poly Group is one of China’s more mysterious companies

In April this year, Christie’s became the first foreign auction house to operate independently in mainland China. In the same month it emerged ...

Rise of the RMB Latest HSBC survey hints at a lucrative benefit if exporters use…

The renminbi was top of the agenda at HSBC’s fifth Global Connections event in Guangzhou at the end of June. The conference, attended by more than 70 ...

China and the World Japan’s election result provokes China concerns

Fans of author George RR Martin will be familiar with the phrase “winter is coming”. In his bestselling novels – now shown in the TV series ...

Not so real, after all

Entertainment In the battle for ratings, some reality TV shows are using…

When Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from her husband of 72 days, court papers revealed the fuller truth of the reality show that has turned the ...

Getting shafted

M&A Investigators to look at murky coal deal

"The pen is mightier than the sword” was a phrase first coined by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play Cardinal Richelieu. The drama was a study in ...

In danger of blowing up?

Society Two prominent cases trigger criticism of security officials

Every language has at least one word that can’t be fully translated because the concept hasn’t been precisely identified elsewhere or because it ...

Marriage, then mortgage

Planet China Many people get married for love. But in Beijing there is…

Many people get married for love. But in Beijing there is a new breed of woman who views the whole thing in a far more transactional light. Known as ...

The future of freight?

Cartoons The future of freight?

The Royal Scotsman, the Palace on Wheels, and the Orient Express. Each name conjures up images of a great train journey. But perhaps the greatest trip ...

And Finally Britain’s new royal baby causes stir in China

The royal wedding, the Queen’s diamond jubilee and most recently the birth of a new heir this week – in short, it has been a good couple of ...