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WiC 207 (Sep 6, 2013)

All hands to the pump

Economy, Talking Point CNPC in crisis mode, after series of arrests purge top managers…

Daqing and Shengli, China’s largest oilfields, used to produce some of the Chinese Communist Party’s most respected public servants. Braving ...

Shielding its share

Internet & Tech Tencent’s WeChat under siege from all sides

Recently Starbucks ran a campaign on China’s most popular mobile messaging application WeChat asking its followers to signal their mood by messaging ...

Mercedes shifts gear

Auto Industry Daimler plans China breakthrough with more local production

National Socialism is not an appropriate topic for car advertising. This was the understandable rebuke from Daimler last month, after a homemade ...

Questions to answer

Environment Shenhua bosses flee event, as Greenpeace strikes

The press conference accompanying a company’s earnings results is typically a chance for journalists to grill senior management about the latest set ...

Time to dig deeper

Energy & Resources China’s shale dreams slow to take off

Supporters of shale gas say that industry critics like Vladimir Putin – desperate to defend Russia’s traditional energy firms – are starting to ...

Energy & Resources Can Sinopec shake its image for bad PR? Well, it’s trying

Gerald Ratner knows a thing or two about bad PR. In what the Daily Telegraph calls the most famous public relations gaffe ever, Gerald Ratner gave a ...

Society Debate rages over why so many tycoons end up in jail

The term ‘robber baron’ was first used in the mid-13th century in medieval Germany. These unscrupulous men got their name from piracy on the Rhine ...

Society Why powerful Chinese men date TV hosts

Last week China’s microblogging world went into a frenzy when news surfaced that celebrity TV host Shen Xing’s apartment in Hong Kong had been ...

Who is the queen of hearts?

Entertainment China’s top starlets go head-to-head with romantic comedy movies

In Sleepless in Seattle, the female protagonist and her best friend watch An Affair to Remember. As they weep together over the 1957 ...

Planet China ‘Failing the physical’ took on a new connotation in Hunan province…

'Failing the physical’ took on a new connotation in Hunan province recently as news broke of a candidate who failed to get into the police force in ...

Putting the knife in

Cartoons Putting the knife in

Lesson number one in how not to win friends abroad: deface an ancient Egyptian temple with your autograph. This was the mistake made by Nanjing ...

And Finally Two cubs born in zoos, another one imminent

Who says pandas have a problem procreating? In July Atlanta’s zoo had twins; a cub was then born at the Smithsonian zoo in Washington on August 23 ...