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WiC 25 (Jul 24, 2009)

Steeling itself for defeat

Energy & Resources, Talking Point Iron ore negotiating team may blink before the international miners

Hell, famously, has no fury like a woman scorned. But editors at Chinese state newspapers can work up quite a rage too, and they were pretty furious ...

The new masters of the universe

Banking & Finance China wants its own piece of the private equity pie

There has been a funereal tone to stories about the US private equity industry in recent weeks. Many private equity firms will go to the wall, the ...

They’re buying again

Property Property developers set record prices in recent land auctions. Crisis over?…

In an auction room in Beijing on June 30th, it was as if the financial crisis had never happened. The sale of residential site No. 15 Guangqu Road, ...

Growth story continues…

China Ink, Economy At 7.9%, China’s second quarter GDP growth was close to Beijing’s…

How did the media react? The mainland media sounded triumphant. China Daily declared: “Just a few months ago, many economists ...

Fully charged, raring to go

Chinese Character Buffett thinks BYD’s founder could be the world’s next great industrialist

Six years ago, Wang Chuan-Fu admitted to an interviewer that when he came up with his company’s acronym – BYD – the letters had “no special ...

Dancing to a new tune

Society Welcome to violin town

There is a scene in the movie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress where a violin is fought over. The film, set in the Cultural Revolution, sees a ...

History Lessons Ambush at the felled tree

During the Warring States period, Sun Bin and Pang Juan were both disciples of the same teacher. After they graduated, Pang became a general in the ...

Mulan minus Disney

Entertainment A homegrown movie intends to reclaim a legend

Every Chinese child can recite the tale of Hua Mulan, the legendary warrior princess who disguises herself as a man in order to take the place of her ...

Environment A backlash against foreign water companies

Legend has it that the founder of the Xia Dynasty – some 4,200 years ago – rose to power through an ability to “master the waters”. For 13 ...

Who’s Hu Virtue at Vanke

Born in 1951 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region (bordering Vietnam), Wang Shi joined the army at 17, before moving to the railway bureau where he ...

Martial match-ups

Sport Kung-fu show aims to replicate popular US formula

As far as bar room chats go, it seems to rank up there with debates on whether a lion will always get the better of a tiger. But there are some for ...

Vehicle vigilante

Planet China You’ve heard of ‘road rage’ but what about ‘pedestrian rage’? In…

You’ve heard of ‘road rage’ but what about ‘pedestrian rage’? In Gansu province an old man has made the headlines for his vigilante approach ...

Loading up on booze

Cartoons Loading up on booze

In a recession, bet on booze. That seems to be the thinking behind China’s latest investment. The FT reports that the People’s Bank of China has ...

The world’s dearest fish

And Finally Why China’s rich are paying up to $116,800 for red dragons

"We are recession-proof because we are in the luxury goods business,” says Mr Suen. But Suen doesn’t work for Louis Vuitton or BMW. He is the ...