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WiC 208 (Sep 13, 2013)

In a precarious state

Energy & Resources, Talking Point Why China’s steel firms could give nation’s banks a major problem

Earlier this year Warner Brothers released the film Man of Steel. It featured Henry Cavill as Superman, and proved popular with Chinese ...

Expectations management

Telecoms Apple underwhelms Chinese with launch event for new iPhone

What a non-event! After the feverish rumours in advance of Apple’s product launch event in Beijing this week, Apple-watchers couldn’t help but feel ...

Taking the Mickey

Economy Is Hengqin going to emerge as China’s new Disneyland?

Theme parks are pretty popular, even with former leaders of the Soviet Union, it seems. In fact, when Nikita Krushchev made his famous American tour in ...

Dramatic surge in stocks

Banking & Finance Up 80% this year, is the ChiNext share market a bubble…

When Vanke attempted its first public fundraising in December 1988, there wasn’t even a stock market in China. The real estate firm wanted to raise ...

Property Wenzhou’s property market remains battered

According to property agency Zillow.com, by the time that the subprime mortgage crisis peaked in the United States, $9 trillion had been wiped off the ...

Property A record price suggests Shanghai property is still hot

Last year Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, a bustling shopping district, managed to edge out New York’s Fifth Avenue as the world’s most expensive ...

Who’s Hu William Wang

If his romantic aspirations are anything to go by, William Wang, the 71 year-old tycoon behind outdoor furniture maker AGIO, is a businessman that ...

Agriculture Army goes on offensive over GM food risks

One is the world’s largest military force, the other sets policies for Chinese arable land. But when it comes to genetically modified crops, it seems ...

Chronic problem

Healthcare The number of Chinese diabetics is far larger than previously thought

Diabetes is traditionally referred to in China as xiaoke, or as the “wasting and thirsting” disease. It’s an apt description, because ...

Entertainment Forget the Ivy League, the toughest college to get into is…

Although not particularly well-known internationally, the Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is famed throughout China. So, not surprisingly, competition to ...

Sport Ignominy for Beijing team at the National Games

Sometimes mistakes are so obvious that the error has to be acknowledged immediately. This was the case last weekend after netizens mocked China’s ...

Mind your language

Society Why 400 million Chinese can’t speak Mandarin

Putonghua, China’s official spoken language, translates as “common tongue”. But it wasn’t so common at the very beginning. In fact, it was ...

World of Weibo Lee Kai-fu

Last week Lee Kai-fu, founder of Innovation Works and one of China’s most influential social critics, took to his personal weibo to announce that he ...

Planet China New mothers often have to multi-task. But a mother in the…

New mothers often have to multi-task. But a mother in the city of Yuzhou in China’s central Henan province has taken the art to a new level: ...

The child aviator

And Finally A five year-old pilot is grabbing headlines

There were two tales this month about fathers with differing ambitions for their children: one quite literally pushing his son to fly the family nest; ...