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WiC 255 (Oct 3, 2014)
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Trouble in store
China Consumer, Talking Point Luxury lags in Hong Kong but new book has high hopes…

Roads blocked by thousands of demonstrators, confrontations with police using pepper spray and tear gas, and even thunderstorms and torrential ...

Everything must go
Property Real estate developers are offering surreal deals to lure buyers

On previous occasions when China’s property market was in the doldrums, developers offered the prospect of free BMWs to entice people into buying new ...

On the road
Entertainment In a busy week for cinema releases, Ning Hao hopes for…

In the film Sideways, Paul Giamatti plays Miles, a divorcee and failed writer, who takes off with his longtime friend Jack (Thomas Haden ...

What will he do?
China Ink Hong Kong’s CY Leung faces a crisis

The reaction to the use of tear gas on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters? The state media is deeply displeased at the scenes ...

China’s newest city
Economy The elevation of Khorgas is part of Xi Jinping’s new Silk…

For much of its 300-year history, Khorgas in western Xinjiang has led a pretty unglamorous existence as an imperial outpost and garrison town. But ...

Debate warms up
Environment Beijing signals it will curb carbon emissions

Five years ago China annoyed the world’s climate experts by sending a second tier official from the NDRC, the economic planning body, to negotiate ...

Paper losses
Media Launch of a Huffington Post-like news website in Shanghai causes stir

The People’s Daily started out as a highly sought after publication (it sounds unlikely, we admit). But its origins lie with journals run by ...

Fu Sheng
Who’s Hu How he went from Zhou Hongyi's friend to foe

China’s internet heavyweights are building their business empires by acquiring promising start-ups (see WiC230). To do so, they are looking for ...

Faye Wong
World of Weibo Faye Wong

From the moment Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor set eyes on each other on the set of Cleopatra in 1962, they were infatuated. The two fell ...

Instituting changes
Society Confucius is embraced by Beijing, rejected in Chicago

Confucius preached harmony. So one wonders what he would have made of the war of words that broke out over an international language institute bearing ...

Mob money
Entertainment Crowdfunding to boom?

American television network The CW scrapped Veronica Mars in 2007 as the teen noir drama was falling off in the ratings. The show’s ...

The student salute
Planet China Back in WiC251, we looked at the debate about whether China’s…

Back in WiC251, we looked at the debate about whether China’s school children should receive military training. Last week the controversy moved to ...

Pick your battles wisely
Sino-File “You want to compete with tens of millions of disorganised individual…

Renren boss Chen Yizhou tells the Wall Street Journal why he invested in Vipshop, the website specialising in discounted ‘flash sales’ of ...

A rotten apple
Cartoons A rotten apple

The wait in China to buy an iPhone 6 will soon be over with the smartphone now gaining permission to be sold in the Chinese market, after licencing ...

Under starter’s orders?
And Finally British Queen’s eldest grandson could lead horse racing revolution in China

The modern Chinese word for street is malu, which translates as ‘horse road’. The term derives from the earliest race course in imperial ...

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