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Energy & Resources China seeks greater control over Australian iron ore reserves

In 1886 a young Englishman called Harry Page Woodward spent a year crossing 13,000km of Western Australia on a camel. As the state’s new geologist, ...

Energy & Resources Steel woes for railways group

The Fortune 500 rankings were first compiled in 1955 and topped by General Motors. Some of the other companies in the top 10 back then don’t sound so ...

M&A Minsheng Bank’s shareholders want to create a new financial giant

In 1799 the controversial US politician Aaron Burr obtained a state charter for a water company called the Manhattan Company. It included a provision ...

Rail & Infrastructure Li Keqiang tours Africa in charm offensive

"How would you feel if we went and killed all your pandas?” That was the question put to a Chinese journalist by a Kenyan game warden. The query ...

Entertainment New film pioneers a new genre and is rewarded at box…

To say that Xu Zheng boosted Chinese tourism to Thailand single-handedly may not be an understatement. Thanks to Lost in Thailand, a ...

Entertainment Imax inks deal to speed its expansion in China

This week Imax hosted a glitzy press conference to celebrate the premiere of director Zhang Yimou’s new release Coming Home. The film, ...

Fast Food Online cooking show makes eating alone popular

A few weeks ago WiC reviewed the second season of A Bite of China, CCTV’s hit show about Chinese cuisine. Meanwhile New Weekly is reporting ...

Society Bereaved parents look for government compensation

"Have only one child and the government will take care of you” was the promise made in 1985 by China’s National Family Planning Commission. The ...

Planet China China has just one underwater rail connection – a 10km link…

China has just one underwater rail connection – a 10km link between the southern cities of Guangzhou and Dongguan. So it came as a bit of a surprise ...

Sino-File “If we think we can become another China, I think it’s…

Baba Kalyani, the chairman and managing director of auto components maker Bharat Forge, talks to the Financial Times. He says India should focus on ...

Cartoons Arrêter voleur!

Chinese tourists have a love-hate relationship with Paris. They adore its architecture, its parks and its fabulous shopping. But they don’t always ...

And Finally Wuhan’s bike-sharing scheme is failing

In 2010, a model called Ma Nuo became a minor celebrity after telling a potential suitor on a dating show that she would rather weep in someone ...

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WiC 237 (May 16, 2014)

Internet & Tech, Talking Point How Alibaba’s IPO will change the internet world

Banking & Finance Card provider in cashback clampdown

China and the World Factories on fire in Vietnam after oil rig riots

Property Shoddy construction remains a problem in China’s real estate market

Economy Guangzhou’s trade gathering is no longer the only game in town