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WiC 220 (Dec 13, 2013)

The ‘smart money’ says yes

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Why has Cinda’s Hong Kong IPO proven such a blowout success?

Today he is Britain’s biggest foreign investor, but most people won’t recall Li Ka-shing’s first major acquisition in the UK. It occurred in 1986 ...

Struggling to get airborne

Aviation China’s newest jet is experiencing delays

The Farnborough airshow of 1952 hoped to showcase Britain’s leadership in global aviation, writes James Hamilton-Paterson in Empire of the Clouds: ...

Internet & Tech Baidu’s boss in falling out with fellow tycoons

In addition to being classed as China’s best-looking chief executive (a worthy category in Forbes China’s annual rankings), Robin Li was named the ...

Ji gets liquidated

Economy Mayor embroiled in high-profile bankruptcy

As the Party Secretary of Yangzhou, Ji Jianye’s approach to urban planning earned him a nickname as “the Bulldozer”. The moniker stuck when he ...

Energy & Resources Puzzling times as steel industry earns profits

Last week Citic Pacific celebrated a milestone – and one that the company’s management readily admits was long overdue. At long last, it loaded its ...

Generational change

Telecoms Award of 4G licences a boon for Apple as well as…

When Alexander Graham Bell spoke the first ever words on a telephone, they were “Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you”. That sort of dour and ...

“Shall we paint the town red, Ms Pan?”

Red Star Lisa Pan

Born in Chongqing, Lisa Pan became a child star after hosting a popular children’s TV show. After graduating from university in 2003, she became a TV ...

Sky’s the limit

Banking & Finance New currency rules announced for Shanghai’s free trade zone

Shanghai says it will soon be centre-stage as one of the world’s leading commercial and financial hubs. So it must have been exasperated to spend ...

The site for cultured folk

Society Culture not cash with Douban yet to make a profit

For years, many of China’s internet companies have been dismissed as imitators of successful American firms. And it’s true to say that many of the ...

A welcome delay

Entertainment Latest hit movie took almost four years to reach Chinese screens…

After being pulled off Chinese cinema screens rather abruptly in April, Django Unchained had to wait more than a month to be released a second ...

His ideals but not theirs…

Society How China and its leaders reacted to Mandela’s death

Shortly after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, the Hong Kong band Beyond penned a popular musical tribute to the man who helped bring ...

China’s most famous butcher

Who’s Hu Chen Sheng

Chen Sheng became China’s second most famous butcher after he hired the most famous one, Lu Buxuan. But the two men built their pork business from ...

Planet China It’s not often that a Beijing police officer is at a…

It’s not often that a Beijing police officer is at a loss over procedure. The capital city’s cops have rules to cover practically any situation – ...

Cartoons Grey with fury

Are old people in China turning nasty? That was the odd question posed by Sina Weibo last week after a spate of stories in which pensioners have been ...

Playing chicken

Sino-File “We just can’t build the [chicken] houses fast enough and we’re…

Tyson Foods CEO Donnie Smith says the US firm has 20 chicken farms in China today, versus zero just three years ago. Its goal is 90 farms by 2015, ...

And Finally Why are tycoons becoming keen farmers?

The classic American apple, the Red Delicious is known by a different term in China where it’s called the ‘snake apple’. It has little to do ...