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WiC 221 (Jan 10, 2014)
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Looking forward, cautiously
Economy, Talking Point Readership poll points to hopes and fears for China in 2014…

In the wartime parody Top Secret there is a memorable scene in which the film’s American hero (played by Val Kilmer) joins a group of French ...

An unsightly habit
Tobacco Government officials told they can’t smoke in public

Queen Elizabeth II wrote Deng Xiaoping a letter after visiting Beijing in 1986. In it the British monarch thanked him for not smoking during a ...

Feng the furious
Entertainment Star director returns with big hit, but gets into spat with…

Hollywood studios usually invite critics to advance screenings of a film. The hope is a positive review ahead of its opening day (although distributors ...

Reaching 500
Internet & Tech Tencent shares surge, reaching new milestone

When Tencent decided to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange almost a decade ago, the choice was viewed as something of a consolation prize. After all, ...

New Year, no fear?
Economy National audit office releases latest estimate on local government debt

'Blue Monday’ should always be forecast for January, according to a psychologist commissioned to identify the most miserable day of the year. His ...

Defenders of the earths
Energy & Resources China’s rare earth producers set to consolidate

f there’s one place that can make a real claim to be the centre of global rare earth production, it is the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia. The ...

Shopping money
China and the World Border town pioneers use of Russian currency

"The United States is not a parasite on the world economy”, Russian president Vladimir Putin told Chinese media two years ago. “But the US ...

World travellers
Entertainment Couple enjoy surprise TV hit

Up until 2008 Zhang Xinyu and Liang Hong could be described as fairly conventional types. The high school sweethearts ran a successful trading business ...

Out to lunch
Society Xi Jinping displays common touch as he dines on buns

One of the Hong Kong public’s fondest memories of Chris Patten – the final British governor before the territory returned to Chinese rule – is ...

Winter training
Planet China An icypole is Australian-speak for an iced lolly or popsicle. But…

An icypole is Australian-speak for an iced lolly or popsicle. But it takes on a literal meaning for members of the national team at the China Pole ...

Harry Potter and the Ambassador’s Ire
Sino-File “If militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan, the Yasakuni…

China’s ambassador to Britain compares Japan with the “dark wizard” from the Harry Potter books. Liu Xiaoming spoke to the Daily Telegraph ...

Thaw in relations?
Cartoons Thaw in relations?

Two separate rescue missions took on a distinctly international flavour earlier this month. In the first the Chinese icebreaker Xue Long went to ...

Stoned village
And Finally A bout of cold turkey for China’s meth capital

You know a village might have a drugs problem when signs at its rubbish bins say “meth lab waste should not be disposed of here”. That was the ...

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