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WiC 216 (Nov 15, 2013)
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Veni, vidi, vici
Sport, Talking Point How a Sino-Italian joint venture conquered Asian football

"The ball is round, the pitch rectangular” advises the first rule for cuju, the six-a-side footballing format acknowledged by FIFA, soccer’s ...

A Mount Everest of bras
China Consumer Alibaba sees online sales surge 83% during Singles Day bonanza

What a rollercoaster day! As far as online purchases go, Monday was spectacular. Top of the tree was a Ms Huang from Zhejiang province, who spent Rmb20 ...

Decisive wording
Economy Third Plenum produces brief communiqué and much speculation

We know a lot about what goes on behind the scenes in US politics. That’s in large part thanks to gifted journalists who spend years researching ...

We think, therefore we are
Economy Which think tanks are shaping Chinese policymaking?

When Mark Leonard, the author of What Does China Think, visited the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in 2003, he was amazed to learn ...

Watching their every move
Internet & Tech Chinese tech firm releases gadget to help parents keep tabs on…

"You never actually own a Patek Philippe. You merely look after it for the next generation.” As slogans go, the Swiss watchmaker’s is one of the ...

Televised appearance
Entertainment Big bucks lure movie stars to the small screen

Claire Danes managed it. So did Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin. Last week, the New York Times reported that John Goodman will star in a new TV show The ...

BDStar
Who’s Hu Zhou Ruxin

With ambitions to rival GPS (a global positioning system developed to a US standard), China’s Beidou System (BDS) opened for commercial use late last ...

Love song
Red Star Wang Feng

Born in Beijing, Wang Feng started practicing the violin when he was 5. Much later, after graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music, he ...

Sun not shining
Sport Swimming ace in scandal that embroils Hyundai

Talk about driving and Tiger Woods, and the first impression is a ball landing 300 yards down a fairway. But gossip column readers got a very different ...

The enemy within?
Society Why two terror attacks evoke different responses in China

Gilo Pontecorvo’s 1966 film The Battle of Algiers depicts France’s suppression of the 1950s Algerian uprising. The French briefly ...

Mining deposits
Banking & Finance Shanxi’s coal bosses want to establish new bank

Zhang Yimou’s 1991 movie Raise the Red Lantern was filmed at the Qiao Family Compound in Shanxi. An imposing mansion in Pingyao, the ...

Sales bounce
Planet China In the late 1960s Australian television produced its first international hit:…

In the late 1960s Australian television produced its first international hit: Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Ninety-one episodes were sold as far ...

Highway patrol
Cartoons Highway patrol

Medog County in Tibet. The chances are that you have never heard of it. WiC is willing to bet you have never been there, either. Until last month, this ...

Fondly remembering dad
Sino-File “When I was young, my father raised a pig and he…

Zhu Xinli, the founder of Huiyuan Juice – which Coca-Cola tried to acquire in 2009 (see WiC7) – speaks to magazine Global Entrepreneur about ...

Kill that idea
And Finally US comedian gets into trouble over China

In September Jimmy Kimmel ran a segment on his US talkshow that made fun of the new Beijing headquarters of the People’s Daily. He wasn’t the first ...

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