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WiC 215 (Nov 8, 2013)
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Dotcom fever rides again
Internet & Tech, Talking Point Tech firms surge in US stock debuts, but will Alibaba soon…

A tech firm knows it has become part of the social fabric when it inspires a hit TV show. Case in point: Craigslist. Elizabeth Meriwether says she ...

Selling Shiraz in Shaanxi
Investor Q&A Meet the man who is selling Aussie wine in the hinterlands…

Blame China. That was the message from Pernod Ricard a fortnight ago as it warned of falling profits. The spirits maker – which owns brands including ...

Huayi in new share offer
Entertainment Top film studio offers cinemas bigger take to keep blockbuster on…

To hear Jack Ma put it, his investment in the film studio Huayi Brothers was largely down to Stephen Chow, the Hong Kong comedian. Ma, who owned 8% of ...

Getting a grilling
China Consumer Success for Shuanghui in US, problems at home

When Shuanghui International completed its $7.1 billion acquisition of Smithfield Foods – the world’s biggest hog producer – it was generally ...

Time to replenish
Banking & Finance Banks are seeking to raise new capital

By early October there were 15 regional Chinese banks waiting for approvals to go public. Unable to list on the domestic A-share market, the lenders ...

What’s going on?
Property Data about the property market continues to confuse

Be rational when buying a house, don’t just blindly follow others. That was the fairly humdrum advice being given to potential homebuyers as they ...

Snap happy
Sport WiC reports from the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai

For the African fisherman calling ashore to find out which market will pay most for his catch or the health worker looking for expert advice on how to ...

An experiment
Society Beijing’s new plan to win Nobel Prize for Science

One imagines that when Beijing-based ambassadors brief visiting dignitaries on acceptable small talk to use on Chinese leaders the subject of Nobel ...

The green grass of home
Economy More reports on land reform in advance of the Third Plenum…

Sometime in the fourteenth century a young orphan in rural England walked to London after hearing that its streets were paved with gold. He soon ...

Lungs and lenses
Planet China The smog enveloping China’s cities isn’t just an irritant to their…

The smog enveloping China’s cities isn’t just an irritant to their inhabitants’ lungs. The government in Beijing is now concerned that pollution ...

Top of the crops
Sino-File “Everyone in China has probably heard of me by now”

Verdict of the Ukrainian billionaire Oleg Bakhmatyuk. He told the Financial Times that his firm UkrLandFarming has done deals with COFCO and New ...

All hands on deck
Cartoons All hands on deck

They may be longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, but the fleet of Valemax mega ships hasn’t impressed the Chinese, who have banned them from docking ...

Give us a brake
And Finally Beijing cops slam women drivers

WiC has mentioned Mao’s much-quoted saying that women “hold up half the sky” before. But in the eyes of Beijing’s police, they are as likely to ...

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