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WiC 226 (Feb 21, 2014)

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Searching for redemption

Banking & Finance, Talking Point This year’s big debate: will Beijing allow a trust product to…

One of the odder encounters for Edward Heath in China was with a biology student. The former British prime minister was at a cocktail party in Beijing ...

Route to success

Internet & Tech Alibaba and Tencent fight over online maps and taxi bookings

One of the biggest rebukes for John Woo’s historical epic Red Cliff was the choice of Lin Chi-ling to play the role of Xiao Qiao, wife of ...

Unlocked vehicle

Auto Industry Will Youngy boss take profit on his huge BYD stake?

London’s minicabs are reflective of China’s growing business interests in the British capital. London Taxis, builder of the boxy black cabs so ...

Saucy performance

China Consumer Two of the hottest recent IPOs are for firms making soy…

At the 1915 exposition celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal, there were two unexpected winners at the event’s wine contest. Two Chinese ...

Good meetings

Cross Strait China is in dispute with many neighbours, but Taiwan relations improve

A decade and a half ago the Taiwan Strait was regarded as one of the world’s most dangerous potential flashpoints. Today, it looks like a calmer ...

Born to succeed

Banking & Finance Chinese media begins to focus on the incredible rise of Anbang…

Special economic zones have been a fertile breeding ground for some of China’s most powerful insurers. The first insurance company in China, the ...

Copper-wire tycoon

Who’s Hu Wang Wenyin

For many Chinese entrepreneurs, copper is often associated with unorthodox bank loans (see WiC103 for our first report on copper-backed trade finance). ...

Visa veto

China and the World Canada withdraws investor residency scheme

In the early 1990s, a phenomenon known as the “astronaut family” was commonplace in Hong Kong. The term was given to people seeking to emigrate to ...

Monkeying about

Entertainment Centuries-old classic battles five-day wonder at the New Year box office

Robin Li is China’s richest man (calculates Bloomberg) and reputedly the best-looking Chinese CEO, according to Forbes. Now he’s seeking new ...

Going cold

Sport China’s Olympians underperform in Russia

If diplomatic schmoozing were an Olympic sport, Xi Jinping might be up for a gold medal. Two days before the 2014 Winter Olympics were about to ...

Black Coal, Thin Ice

Red Star Diao Yinan

Born in Xi’an in Shaanxi province, Diao Yinan graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. He got his first break in the film industry by ...

Breaking hearts

Planet China Many of Shanghai’s sweethearts were in for a bitter disappointment last…

Many of Shanghai’s sweethearts were in for a bitter disappointment last Friday, reports the BBC, after their efforts to get two seats together at ...

Making an impression

Sino-File “Why is your China business strategy so bad?”

Wendi Deng’s first words to Rupert Murdoch, according to an article in the current issue of Vanity Fair. Deng wasn’t impressed either by his ...

The rover’s return

Cartoons The rover’s return

“Hi, is anyone there?” Last Thursday morning a weibo account penned from the point of view of China’s first lunar rover, Yutu, crackled into ...

The oldest vice

And Finally Authorities crack down on China’s ‘Sin City’

In January China’s most popular search engine Baidu launched a heat map to capture the massive human migration that takes place over the Lunar New ...

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