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WiC 217 (Nov 22, 2013)

Born of necessity

Economy, Talking Point One-child policy to be relaxed among wave of reforms unveiled by…

Harold Wilson won’t make a list of Britain’s greatest prime ministers but he has bestowed one of its better-remembered political observations: that ...

Get the beers in

China Consumer European brewer doubles down in Chongqing coup

When Steven Gerrard and his fellow Liverpool players ran out to face Chelsea in the English Premier League in May 2010, fans spotted something ...

Internet & Tech How a peasant card game created a tech billionaire

Seizing land from the rich and giving it to poorer peasants helped the Communist Party win much of its early mandate. In the early 1950s, ...

Cross Strait Gambia ends diplomatic relations with Taiwan

The last time Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou visited Gambia in 2012, his counterpart Yahya Jammeh challenged him to a press-up contest. Jammeh ...

Property Why Vanke’s bought into Anhui lender

He’s climbed Mount Everest twice and he’s led expeditions to the North Pole and the South Pole. So perhaps it should come as little surprise ...

Sony’s China bet

Telecoms Japanese giant gambles on Chinese 4G phones

In the film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a smug weatherman condemned to relive February 2 over and over again. For China Mobile, it ...

Singles Day controversy

World of Weibo Singles Day controversy

Who doesn’t love a bargain? On November 11, a matchmaking site managed to put love as well as a bargain together by launching a controversial ...

Wind Information

Who’s Hu Lu Feng

Bloomberg by Bloomberg is a business bible as far as Wind Information’s founder Lu Feng is concerned. He made Michael Bloomberg’s ...

Battling at the box office

Entertainment Russian movie proves big hit with Chinese audiences

Henry V’s victory at the Battle of Agincourt took about three hours. Some four hundred years later the Duke of Wellington required seven more to ...

Crazy guy in news again

Society A second career for English teacher Li Yang?

"Since using Amway toothpaste my gum has stopped bleeding. After taking [Amway’s] protein powder I feel more energised. I also installed the Amway ...

Society A new word for China’s brash nouveau riche catches on

What does Jay Gatsby have in common with China? As it turns out, after Baz Luhrmann’s cinematic extravaganza The Great Gatsby hit the ...

Sport Beijing wants to host yet another Olympiad

The sporting authorities from the city of Beijing can’t be faulted for a lack of ambition. Earlier this month the Chinese capital announced it had ...

Planet China “A tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight” begins the Oxford…

“A tropical grasshopper with strong powers of flight” begins the Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of ‘locust’. The description goes on ...

The birds and the bees

Cartoons The birds and the bees

The big dog was back in Beijing this week. And as usual, Bill Clinton was wowing the crowds. The former president met Chinese leader Xi Jinping on ...

And Finally Why are farmers breeding cockroaches in Shandong?

Practitioners of Chinese medicine have incorporated some pretty stomach-churning ingredients into their remedies. Tiger penis, deer antler and snake ...