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WiC 233 (Apr 11, 2014)

Charge of the Li brigade

Economy, Talking Point Stimulus to the rescue? Worried about growth, government unveils new plan…

Has Premier Li Keqiang just unleashed a weapon of mass construction? That was the question on the minds of analysts last week after the State Council ...

Banking & Finance More signs of stress in the corporate debt markets

A company announces that it is on the verge of default. The financial authorities allow it to fail. And the financial markets worry that it represents ...

Licences and liposuction

Entertainment Why the Chinese are so keen to visit South Korea

Since 2012 the Chinese have surpassed the Japanese as South Korea’s largest inbound tourist group. Many go for the shopping or to pay homage to ...

Shipping Even Rongsheng’s rivals don’t want it to fail

The Yangtze River Delta has a long history as China’s most important shipbuilding area. Adjacent to Jiangsu, it was home to the first commercial ...

China Consumer Sanpower bids for one of Britain’s oldest stores

In 1849, Hugh Fraser and James Arthur started a small drapery called Arthur and Fraser in Glasgow, Scotland. With Fraser’s death in 1873, Fraser ...

Property Evergrande dividend shocks analysts

For years soccer fans wondered why billionaire Xu Jiayin, the chairman of property developer Evergrande, was ready to spend millions of dollars luring ...

Back in the spotlight

Chinese Character Former aluminium boss climbs the political ladder

"China has too many engineers and we have too many lawyers. Let’s trade.” That was the quip from former US President Bill Clinton on a trip to ...

Media & Gaming Is Beijing about to loosen its grip on Hollywood imports?

China’s movie industry looks set for a major shakeup. Han Sanping, the boss of China Film Group Corp, has just retired from the key state-owned ...

Entertainment Is the public’s fascination with stars’ love lives healthy?

When Chinese singer Faye Wong broke up with Li Yapeng, her husband of eight years, she took to her official Sina Weibo account to make the ...

Chicken delight

Society New record for porcelain cup

How much will it cost to drink from a wine cup used by a Chinese emperor? The answer emerged this week: HK$281.24 million (or a little over $36 ...

Red Star Chang An-lo

In Taiwan’s bipolar world of blue (the Kuomintang) and green (the Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP), Chang An-lo stands out as one of the ...

Planet China In his 2008 book The Corpse Walker, dissident poet Liao Yiwu…

In his 2008 book The Corpse Walker, dissident poet Liao Yiwu describes a conversation with a former kusang or professional mourner. “Most ...

Sino-File “There are only two possibilities to explain why people are predicting…

Wanda’s Wang Jianlin tells local media that he’s dismissive of property bears.

The customer is always right

Cartoons The customer is always right

It is often said that the residents of the southwestern city of Chengdu can be as fiery as the food they eat. That adage appears to be true in the ...

And Finally Chinese perplexed by Merkel’s gifting of map

When a delegation from Paris visited Beijing in 1964, it wouldn’t have been impressed to hear Mao Zedong question France’s stature, describing the ...