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WiC 254 (Sep 26, 2014)

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Not exactly a love triangle

China and the World, Talking Point Xi looks to repair relations in India. His main motivation? Japan

Chinese names can be hard to pronounce, even if they are written in Pinyin. That said, an Indian newscaster made a pretty fundamental error during the ...

A very large deal

Shipping The Valemax war looks to be over as Cosco and Vale…

Fabius Maximus is known – at least among military strategists – as the general who undertook the first ‘war of attrition’. The strategy was ...

The new Silicon Valley?

Economy Why Intel is betting big on Shenzhen

If you had asked a Hong Kong resident what neighbouring Shenzhen was good for 10 years ago, you would probably have got the reply, “It’s where I ...

Drink to success

China Consumer Iconic Hong Kong brand in big China push

Winston Lo Yau-fai, Vitasoy’s executive chairman, says his favourite drink from the beverage firm’s 300-strong roster is its original one – soya ...

United we stand

China and the World Scotland says no but China uneasy it voted at all

When Li Keqiang visited Britain in June he made a point of expressing his support for a “united United Kingdom”. The message was clear enough: ...

Ever growing shadow

Banking & Finance A dodgy deal defaults, leaving a bank on the hook

Women and money are two of the worldly concerns that Buddhist monks are supposed to avoid. So it came as a shock when a woman was killed at the Guangfu ...

Hacker academy

Internet & Tech What goes on inside China’s most famous vocational school?

The origins of polytechnic schools were military. By the late eighteenth century artillery had become so sophisticated that armies needed to train ...

Fading stars

Entertainment More celebrities targeted in government’s anti-vice crackdown

If the Chinese zodiac is to be believed, the marriage between director Wang Quan’an and actress Zhang Yuqi was doomed from the start. Zhang was born ...

Final set

Sport Li Na retires from tennis

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A ...

Uniform approach

Planet China With violence on the rise in Chinese hospitals (see WiC252), the…

With violence on the rise in Chinese hospitals (see WiC252), the authorities are coming up with some innovative solutions to calm angry patients. The ...

Flying start for Alibaba

Cartoons Flying start for Alibaba

If Jack Ma had said “We want to be bigger than Walmart” a decade ago, few would have taken him seriously. But when he said the same thing to ...

Studying China

Sino-File “Learning from and learning about China has never been more important…

A remark from the UK’s Prince William as he opened the Dickson Poon University of Oxford China Centre. Its director Professor Rana Mitter told ...

A just crime?

And Finally How corrupt officials got exposed by burglars

In 2012 three economists published Robbing Banks: Crime Does Pay – But Not Very Much. It argued that bank robbers should find another job. ...

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