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WiC 214 (Nov 1, 2013)

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Chequebook journalism

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point Scandal as reporter admits he was paid to fabricate Zoomlion articles

In “our judicial system” the public can see the “alleged perpetrators”, explained New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg, after an angry French ...

The delivery man

Logistics, M&A SF Express brings in state firms to boost growth

SF Express is often hailed as China’s answer to Fedex. But the courier has been very low profile – most people got their first glimpse of its ...

Courting screen success

Entertainment Why a new legal drama is a breakthrough for Chinese cinema

The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. That kind of thinking seems to have inspired the producers of US legal drama The Good Wife – ...

Change in the air?

China Ink Last week, a thick smog blanketed a large part of northeastern…

Has China done enough to reduce air pollution? Obviously not, said most of the Chinese media. The Southern Metropolis Daily warned ...

Out of fashion

China Consumer Online clothes retailer Vancl struggles to regain its mojo

Lei Jun may be an expert when it comes to smartphones but he says he understands e-commerce, too. The chief executive and founder of Xiaomi discussed ...

Zooming in India not China

Auto Industry Shake-up of Suzuki’s joint ventures looks imminent, say media

For any car company, getting a commercial foothold in India and China has obvious lure. But for Japanese automaker Suzuki the two markets have ...

Li Hejun

Who’s Hu The man behind Hanergy

“If you get onto the Forbes list you’ll be dead meat in no time,” or so advises an excerpt from the Chinese novel The Curse of ...

Card withdrawal

Banking & Finance Shareholder exit puts valuation on UnionPay

Warren Buffett’s disdain for credit card debt is well known. But that is not to say he has the same dislike of the companies that offer the cards ...

Restoration tragedy

Society Qing Dynasty fresco destroyed in lame effort to restore it

Restoring old works of art can prove a divisive activity – even when done well and with the best intentions. Some argue that paintings and objects ...

That winning smile

Red Star Yingluck Shinawatra

Born in 1967, Yingluck Shinawatra comes from a wealthy family of Chinese descent. She later earned a bachelor’s degree from Chiang Mai University and ...

Boys in blue

Planet China Impersonating a police officer is a serious offence; except in China…

Impersonating a police officer is a serious offence; except in China where it seems local government officials have been paying people to do so. In ...

Supermarket sweep

Sino-File “We’ve got a great journey ahead of us, but we are…

Greg Moran, Walmart’s China boss, told a media briefing that the retailer has just opened its 400th Chinese store and will have a further 110 by ...

Fighting talk

Cartoons Fighting talk

When the ninth Beijing-Tokyo Forum was held in the Chinese capital late last month, the agreements were hardly groundbreaking. A consensus document was ...

Disastrous remark

And Finally World needs more earthquakes says Jackie Chan

"Six more months and I’m going to be 60,” Jackie Chan told an interviewer at Cannes last year. “And I (will) see how far I can go until my body ...

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