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WiC 223 (Jan 24, 2014)

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Day of reckoning approaches

Banking & Finance, Talking Point With ICBC intransigent, markets are braced for first trust product default

In 1901 Sigmund Freud wrote of the “peculiar feeling we have, in certain moments and situations, of having exactly the same experience once ...

Price sensitive

Banking & Finance As the IPO market reopens, confusion remains on regulator’s new role…

After his appointment as the first chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in 1992, Liu Hongru lamented that his new job meant he was ...

Driven by China ambitions

Auto Industry Famous hong buys into leading Chinese car dealership

As one of the original hongs or trading companies that stirred the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century, Jardine Matheson’s history in the Far East ...

Just a wrinkle?

China Consumer Cosmetics firm’s stock craters on China news

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman of Pershing Square grabbed headlines last year when he took a large short position ($1 billion to be precise) in ...

Now it’s war

Internet & Tech Latest Tencent acquisition worries Alibaba

After the collapse of the Qin Dynasty China was divided by a factional conflict. Two powerful warlords emerged: Xiang Yu of Chu and Liu Bang of Han. ...

Process management

Energy & Resources Why new regulations in Indonesia could be a setback for Chinese…

Vivere pericolosamente was an Italian phrase used by Indonesian president Sukarno during a national day speech in 1964. It means ‘living ...

Asia’s (almost) richest man

Who’s Hu Lui Che-woo

Lui Che Woo won’t forget last Friday in a hurry. Why so? He was named Asia’s richest man – albeit for just one day. Bloomberg first decreed that ...

Going for a song

Entertainment Hong Kong star discounts her fee to build fanbase via mainland…

Until last year Taiwanese balladeer Terry Lin’s career was going nowhere. Lin, 47, was known as an accomplished vocalist from the duo Ukulele. But ...

Fraud caution

World of Weibo Fraud caution

Actress Tang Wei first shot to stardom playing a student activist who seduces a spy chief in Lee Ang’s thriller Lust, Caution (2007). Her ...

Trouble in the ranks?

Society Details of grafting general set to be released

Every Chinese leader seeks to stamp his authority on the 2.3- million strong People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Most analysts agree that Jiang Zemin ...

Burning with shame

Society Ancient city destroyed after guesthouse fire

"A strange and half-incredible sight” is how Shangri-La is described in James Hilton’s classic novel Lost Horizon. The Shangri-La in ...

Loving the publicity

Planet China Finding Mr Right can be tough for career women in China.…

Finding Mr Right can be tough for career women in China. One solution is to rent a billboard. That’s the strategy followed by 28 year-old Huang ...

Party on, Hong Kong

Cartoons Party on, Hong Kong

The West Lake is said to epitomise classical Chinese beauty. But for those who’ve wondered why some of the best lakeside buildings have been ...

Student of history

Sino-File “I have to apologise before it’s too late”

Song Binbin laments the violence of the Cultural Revolution. She took part in a special ceremony at a Beijing school last week where former Red ...

Full of character

And Finally Inventor of Pinyin writing system turns 108

In the 1950s, Chinese linguists began doing something radical: constructing alphabets. Because Chinese is a tonal language with a logographic script ...

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