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WiC 231 (Mar 28, 2014)

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The good wives

China and the World, Talking Point A fillip for Sino-US relations after ‘first ladies’ get together

"Her unfailingly warm, gracious conduct is accomplishing something that official discussions, important as they are, cannot do. She is establishing ...

Sunny outlook

Banking & Finance Rule change could pave way for hedge funds

At Rmb10.9 trillion ($1.8 trillion) in assets, the trust sector has already overtaken insurance as the largest segment in the financial industry after ...

Safe as houses?

Property More bad news from the property sector as developer defaults

China’s first ‘upside down’ house is scheduled to open this April at a village near Shanghai specialising in folk painting. Apparently, visitors ...

Pot, kettle, black?

Telecoms Fury in China that US hacked Huawei

Search for Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei on Sina Weibo and one of the things you are likely to find is jokes about how hard their engineers ...

City limits

Economy Beijing set to move bureaucrats to Baoding

Baoding isn’t a popular destination for tourists. But this unheralded city has a richer heritage than many might think. Home to modern China’s ...

Ma in university challenge

Cross Strait Why has a trade pact with Beijing led to demonstrations in…

Ma Ying-jeou is going through a bad patch. In fact, his approval ratings slipped to an all-time low of about 9% at the end of last year. The Taiwanese ...

Learning new tricks

Internet & Tech Internet firm YY wants to revolutionise online education

The Financial Times calls YY “one of the hottest tech companies you’ve never heard of” and Forbes says there’s “nothing quite like it” in ...

Playing chicken

China Consumer Cargill can’t expand fast enough in China

The end of winter and the start of the egg-laying season coincide – which helps to explain why eggs are integral to ancient celebrations as diverse ...

Exit, stage left

Media & Gaming Chinese cinema’s most powerful man retires

At a dinner with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Han Sanping once asked the DreamWorks CEO if he was any good at poker. According to Chinese media reports, the ...

Talk of the town

Entertainment Chat show host makes jump from website to television

In 2012 Chinese talk show personality Da Peng became a sensation in the United States. Why? Because Conan O’Brien called him out for copying the ...

Very suitable

Society Presidential wardrobe becomes topic of discussion

When it comes to discussions of fashion in the Xi household, the Chinese public is normally more interested in the wardrobe of the president’s wife. ...

Milk Tea Girl

Red Star Zhang Zetian

Born in Nanjing, Zhang Zetian is an exchange student at Columbia University. She became an overnight sensation when a classmate at Nanjing Foreign ...

Age before beauty

Entertainment The TV show that has been watched 2.5 billion times

It only took a short trip to Shanghai to persuade Rupert Murdoch that he should leave his wife for a younger bride, in this case a woman 37 years his ...

Paying a premium

Planet China Hong Kong received its annual migration of scalpers this week. Each…

Hong Kong received its annual migration of scalpers this week. Each year the ticket touts – many of whom seem to come from Liverpool – descend on ...

End of the line

Sino-File “Sometimes you’re not defeated by technology; sometimes it’s a document”

Alibaba’s boss responds to measures capping the amount spent with smartphones. Local media say shoppers will be limited to spending Rmb10,000 ...

Back on track

Cartoons Back on track

Travelling between Pretoria and Cape Town, the Blue Train is South Africa’s best known railway service. It now looks set to share the country’s ...

Hey good-looking

And Finally Controversial painting is attacked in Changsha

When it comes to vandalising paintings, one of the most famed cases was the 1914 attack on the Rokeby Venus in London’s National Gallery, when ...

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