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WiC 21 (Jun 26, 2009)

Suck it and see

Economy, Talking Point Lozenge maker to lead cautious return for Chinese IPOs

Given the Chinese stock market’s propensity for feverish behaviour, it seems fitting that a medicine maker looks like being the first company to ...

Home, sweet home

Economy Provincial governments are told to buy Chinese products

The announcement of a ‘Buy Chinese’ policy was always going to generate a few splutters of indignation. After all, it seemed to many of us that ...

Sport Tianjin’s bad boy defender, and a German goalie on a mission

Is Tan Wangsong ready with an enigmatic saying or two? We only ask because the Tianjin Teda defender might want to follow the example of Manchester ...

Wind up merchants

Energy & Resources Scientists claim China could be powered almost entirely by turbines

They wanted a headline, and they got one. A National Climate Centre (NCC) report due for full release in July has been trailed this month with excerpts ...

Banking on 40,000 cows

China Consumer Why private equity firm KKR is bullish on Chinese milk

Back in 2007, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao declared: “I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each ...

Smokers and coffers

Tobacco Cigarette price increase will help the taxman

The year 2278 could be a significant one for China. Why? Well, that’s how long it could take the country to quit smoking. The math is ...

Wait for the third drum roll

History Lessons Cao Gui, master of momentum

The Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) of Chinese history is named after the Spring and Autumn Annals, a chronicle of the State of Lu. At the time, ...

Internet & Tech Chinese company outflanks Facebook

Despite Facebook’s growing global clout, China is a market the social networking titan has yet to crack. In a country that boasts over 300 million ...

The Chens choose

Society A family’s education points to a changing China

Talk of towers in China and the image is of the industrial chimney variety, belching out smoke and noxious gas. But the ivory towers of higher ...

Who’s Hu "Chief Gaming Officer"

Shi Yuzhu was born in Anhui province in 1962 and graduated from Zhejiang University with a degree in mathematics. He became a civil servant but then ...

A new ‘policy’ bank

Banking & Finance, China Ink Insurance giant, Ping An’s Rmb22 billion ($3.2 billion) deal to buy…

Did Ping An overpay? The Chinese media, quoting extensively from research analysts, seems to think that Ping An is overpaying – ...

Caught on camera

Planet China Caught on camera. Parents will often say “too much television isn’t…

Caught on camera. Parents will often say “too much television isn’t good for you” in the futile attempt to regulate their children’s leisure ...

Napoleon complex

Cartoons Napoleon complex

A rather small Corsican once forecast that China would “shake the world”. But Napoleon might better have predicted that China would “make” the ...

Going swimmingly

And Finally Symbolic swims and drinks at the Water Cube

Mao Zedong loved to swim. In fact, in July 1966 the 73 year-old took a vigorous and well-publicised plunge into the Yangtze River to signal that he was ...