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WiC 219 (Dec 6, 2013)

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Cameron seeks to charm

China and the World, Talking Point British leader pulls out all the stops to boost China relations…

He would bend on a single knee to his sovereign but on both knees only to his God. This was Lord Macartney’s retort when told he must put his ...

Going the distance

China Consumer Marathon craze is proving lucrative for US running shoe firm New…

One of the more memorable moments in the lead-up to the most recent presidential election in the United States came courtesy of Rick Perry. During a ...

The market era

Banking & Finance Regulator announces major policy shift on IPOs

"A new era in the A-share market has dawned,” exulted the Shanghai Securities News after the announcement that the China Securities Regulatory ...

Land ahoy

Shipping Property deal to keep shipping tycoon afloat

By the mid-1970s Hong Kong tycoon YK Pao controlled nearly 500 tankers, according to his daughter Anna Pao. In her biography – titled YK Pao: My ...

Healthy growth

Healthcare A stellar IPO from Chinese hospital group

The well-being of doctors rarely gets more mention than that of their patients. Except, it seems, in China where joining the medical profession might ...

Losing the battle for eyeballs

Media & Gaming CCTV coy on its ad auction results. Is Baidu the reason?…

In November state broadcaster CCTV ran a feature targeting 45 property developers for failing to pay at least Rmb3.8 trillion ($624.1 billion) in tax ...

Gravitational pull

Entertainment American space movie is well-timed to enjoy box office success in China

It’s no secret that Hollywood studios – cognisant of China’s burgeoning box office – are going out of their way to feature Chinese characters ...

Wang Leehom

Red Star Singer finds "Forever Love"

Born in Rochester, New York, Wang Leehom is the second of three sons in an immigrant family from Taiwan. He started taking violin lessons at the age of ...

Nation of moral dilemmas

Society Xi Jinping looks to Confucius to combat waning morality

Is China suffering from a moral crisis? Two very different men think so. The first is Liu Pengfei, an interior designer, from the southeastern city ...

Not on the list

Planet China Uninvited guests are usually unwelcome, and that can be especially true…

Uninvited guests are usually unwelcome, and that can be especially true at a wedding. But at a recent nuptial in Shenzhen, perhaps the most unwelcome ...

Invest now, or regret later?

Sino-File “Now is the best time to invest in China. Reforms will…

Zhao Danyang gives a bullish view to the Financial Times. Best known for paying more than $2 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett in 2009 (see ...

Daley makes a splash

Cartoons Daley makes a splash

The British man supposed to steal the headlines in China this week was David Cameron, the prime minister. But it turned out that 19 year-old diver Tom ...

Guilty admissions

And Finally Red faces at ‘red’ university over corruption

In June Beijing’s prestigious Renmin University saw its first batch of students graduate with a degree in anti-corruption studies. So it was ...

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