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WiC 225 (Feb 7, 2014)

Beijing launches air warfare

Environment, Talking Point China must curb its reliance on coal-generated electricity. Can it?

The struggle to clear Beijing’s skies is spawning some increasingly surreal solutions, like the English cyclist who rides a ‘breathing bike’ that ...

The operative question

Internet & Tech A new ‘homegrown’ smartphone technology arouses much discussion

Virtually everyone in China is now familiar with the Chinese Dream, a concept that President Xi Jinping started promoting a year ago. According to Xi, ...

A $41 billion threat

Banking & Finance China’s banks worry about Tencent and Alibaba

Chinese telecom carriers used to ring in the Lunar New Year by announcing upbeat data on the numbers of celebratory text messages being sent across ...

The market maker

Chinese Character If you want to understand reform era China, the man to…

In August 1988 two young men from China made a pact outside New York’s stock exchange. The Wall Street rookies were plotting to bring something ...

Economy China on alert as bird flu toll rises

The last time that chicken feet were headline news was 2010, when China slapped duties on US imports in a retaliatory strike against President ...

Too spicy for CDH

China Consumer Ownership dispute at Sichuan restaurant chain

When it comes to Chinese firms falling out with their investors, few cases have been as acrimonious as Yahoo’s spat with Alibaba. “Why do we ...

China Tourist Some hoteliers no longer want five stars

The Burj Al Arab set new standards for luxury when it opened in 1999 in Dubai. Guests got a private butler and a small army of valets if they booked ...

Red Star Chinese speed skater

Born in Qitaihe in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, Wang Meng is a short track speed skater. She got her start in the sport when she was ...

The show they love to hate

Entertainment Feng Xiaogang unfazed as his Spring Festival TV programme is bashed

This year’s Super Bowl, the most watched TV event in the United States, pitted the NFL’s highest-scoring offence – the Denver Broncos – against ...

Sport Can Cai Zhenhua fix Chinese football, or is it a task…

It’s not often an executive in the football world is compared to Jing Ke, the scholar and swordsman from the ancient kingdom of Wei. But that was the ...

Planet China Cantonese restaurants often display tanks of seafood to showcase that their…

Cantonese restaurants often display tanks of seafood to showcase that their produce is fresh. Apparently prompted by food safety concerns, a stall in ...

Wang’s foreign forays

Sino-File “To be frank, in China we would have a return on…

China’s richest man Wang Jianlin discusses his M&A strategy during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Feeling the blues

Cartoons Feeling the blues

Football fans are known for their acid humour. And the good folk of Birmingham in the UK have been directing their own at Carson Yeung, who bought ...

And Finally Baijiu producer hit by bizarre bank theft

Jiugui Liquor doesn’t pull any punches. Jiugui translates into English as “alcohol devil” and is a term commonly used to refer to ...