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WiC 248 (Aug 1, 2014)
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China Consumer, Talking Point Husi food scandal in Shanghai creates havoc for McDonald’s and KFC

Processed meat products are, by their very nature, deceptive beasts. Butchers may have began crafting sausages as far back as Neolithic times, and in ...

Driven to success
China Consumer The app that’s transforming Chinese car rentals

The idea for Airbnb, the home rental start-up, originated in San Francisco when Brian Chesky and his friend Joe Gebbia decided to rent out their house ...

The Kiwi kings of rubbish
Environment Beijing Capital boss thrilled by waste management deal

John Keats lauded nightingales, Alexander Pope praised solitude, and Robert Burns immortalised haggis. And now Liu Xiaoguang has penned an ode of his ...

Riding a tiger
Economy Beijing finally makes the Zhou Yongkang corruption probe official

On October 12, 1976 Britain’s Daily Telegraph broke the news that Mao’s widow was under arrest. Jiang Qing, Mao’s third and final wife, and the ...

Hill for sale
Energy & Resources Another Chinese takeover in Australia goes sour

"China currently owns less than 10% of its imported iron ore,” a top official with the China Iron and Steel Association told state media back in ...

Rent seekers
Property Chinese middle class want US properties too

"Home is the nicest word there is.” That’s how Laura Ingalls describes the new wooden house her father has built on the banks of Plum Creek in ...

Jazz it up
World of Weibo Jazz it up

March of the Volunteers, a martial song composed to inspire resistance to Japanese aggression, was picked as China’s national anthem in 1949 ...

Towering pride
Property The 838-metre Sky City is nowhere to be seen

Long before the era of the skyscraper, the medieval town of San Gimignano had its own fixation with height. Now one of Italy’s most beloved tourist ...

Magnetic attraction
Rail & Infrastructure A new maglev train causes controversy in Changsha

In 1966 maglev train design was pioneered by James Powell and his research colleague Gordon Danby of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Powell first ...

Wedded bliss
Entertainment Star’s marriage renews debate as to why fewer Chinese are saying…

To say Zhou Xun raced to the altar is not much of an understatement. The starlet only revealed that she was dating Gao Shengyuan as recently as May. ...

Giving types
Society Tycoons new scheme to help poorer students study abroad

In 2010 Zhang Lei, a Chinese fund manager who earned an MBA at Yale’s School of Management, decided to donate $8,888,888 to his American alma mater. ...

Live by the sword
Society Longquan swordsmiths are busy reviving past glory

In the movie Kill Bill, the Okinawan swordsmith Hattori Hanzo breaks a 28-year blood oath to forge a samurai sword for the character played by ...

Car caper
Planet China Forget Bruce Wayne. Think Bruce Wang instead. A Chinese Batmobile has…

Forget Bruce Wayne. Think Bruce Wang instead. A Chinese Batmobile has just been designed. Southern Metropolis Daily says the engineer behind the ...

Power brokers
Sino-File “My Chinese counterparts signalled interest in taking stakes in Italian companies…

Italian finance minister Pierlo Carlo Padoan says China is bullish about Italy. He also confirmed to the South China Morning Post that State Grid ...

Raise the red lantern
Cartoons Raise the red lantern

For a country so associated with the bicycle, it has always been something of a mystery why China has not produced world class cyclists. A 27 year-old ...

Bad copy?
And Finally Austrian village replica makes derisory returns

Xi Shi was a legendary beauty from the ancient state of Yue (located in what is today’s Zhejiang province). According to folklore, such was Xi’s ...

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