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WiC 241 (Jun 13, 2014)

Hacked off with Americans

Internet & Tech, Talking Point China retaliates against US tech firms over cyber-espionage indictments

In the early nineteenth century, Francis Cabot Lowell managed to talk his way into a number of British textile mills. The American businessman had just ...

Call up the coppers

Shipping Potential warehousing fraud draws attention to commodity financing

As he sits in a cell pondering his fate, the owner of Qingdao Decheng Mining might well mull Shakespeare’s maxim, “Foul cankering rust the hidden ...

The power to deliver

China Consumer, Logistics Why Alibaba’s biggest e-commerce rival might be SF Express

"Jack Ma’s worst nightmare has arrived,” China Youth Daily declared last week. Regular readers of WiC will be forgiven for thinking that this is ...

China and the World Chinese migrants start Canada legal challenge

When Canada dropped its citizenship scheme for foreign investors in February (see WiC226), some applicants were so furious that they sued the Canadian ...

Economy Li Keqiang pounds the table to make his point

During Wen Jiabao’s final press conference two years ago, the outgoing premier shed light on the worst-kept secret in Chinese politics. “Policies ...

Internet & Tech LinkedIn expands as Chinese rivals bulk up

Most job-hunting in China is done face-to-face by people leveraging their personal networks, or guanxi. But for millions of white-collar workers, ...

Property Why threat of a new property registry could add to panic…

The grocery gimmick ‘buy one get one free’ often means that customers purchase more of a regularly priced good in order to get an extra item ...

Banking & Finance New Sino-Russian agency to take on big three

In the first century AD, a historian called Ban Gu wrote an account of the Han Dynasty, which introduced one of the most famous concepts in Chinese ...

Getting it straight

Entertainment Jolie causes stir with Taiwan comment, as Hollywood stars woo China…

When it comes to cultivating her image, Angelina Jolie doesn’t rely on a publicist. She handles the press on her own. And pretty adeptly too, ...

Fan or fortune?

Sport Alibaba gets into football as buying spree continues

China’s billionaires generally dislike publicity although Alibaba’s Jack Ma welcomes it more than most. He was in the headlines again last week, ...

Society High profile duo get the chop

For two and a half decades Zhang Hongmin and Li Ruiying have presented state TV’s leading evening news programme together. They covered the Hong Kong ...

Taking the peace

Planet China China’s fraudsters have shown ingenuity in the past by impersonating powerful…

China’s fraudsters have shown ingenuity in the past by impersonating powerful figures (PLA officers and anti-corruption investigators have been ...

Slow down, says IMF

Sino-File “China should not always try to have the fastest possible growth…

IMF number two David Lipton says China should lower its GDP target from 7.5% to 7%, and reduce the pace of credit growth.

Cartoons Pitched battle

The first-ever football and volleyball matches between the Philippine and Vietnamese navies went ahead last weekend. But what was more unorthodox was ...

And Finally Guangxi puts its islands up for sale

Most articles containing the words ‘China’ and ‘islands’ tend to be about territorial disputes in the South China Sea. But this week we report ...