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WiC 256 (Oct 17, 2014)

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China’s P4 lab debate

Healthcare, Talking Point Can a Chinese pharma firm develop a cure for Ebola?

The Chinese call it Sobola. But the deadly disease is better known outside China as Ebola, after one of the earliest diagnosed cases which occurred in ...

The first domino?

Property Agile’s troubles have Guangdong developers worried

One of the most decisive battles during the Three Kingdoms Period was the Battle of Red Cliff (208 AD). Cao Cao, the warlord who occupied the North, ...

Nothing but the best

China and the World Anbang comes out of the shadows as it swoops for New…

The Waldorf Astoria is a venue that has shaped Sino-US relations for years, doing so most recently last month. That’s because the iconic Manhattan ...

Losing their cool

China Consumer Air-conditioning trio in price war

In the past Dong Mingzhu has warned that price wars aren’t always a good thing for shoppers. One example was an interview with Forbes in 2009, in ...

Making records

China Tourist UnionPay data highlights holiday spending

At the climax of the 1999 film Fight Club Tyler Durden blows up company buildings storing credit card records. If the film was scripted again ...

Home or away?

Banking & Finance Is Wanda’s rivalry with Alibaba behind Wang’s move to IPO in…

When Dalian Wanda Group bought the 25-storey Edificio España for $340 million in June, the hope was that the investment by China’s biggest property ...

Beijing retorts

Economy Mainland Chinese press critical of HK protests

"Stability is bliss and turmoil brings havoc,” was the People’s Daily latest warning on the crisis in Hong Kong on Wednesday, shortly after police ...

Finding its voice

Entertainment Record broken for ad spend on latest season of hit singing…

Before the premiere of The Voice Season 7, arguably the most popular singing competition in the United States, one of its judges told the ...

Traffic problem

Society Film deals with a taboo topic

It has been dubbed as “the saddest film you will ever see”. Dearest, the surprise hit of the October holidays, tells the story of Tian ...

Not just vases

Society Ming exhibition opens in UK

China may be transforming the world today but a landmark new exhibition at the British Museum in London is exploring 50 key years which changed ...

Hunt over?

Society “Mass line” concludes but international search continues

On September 30th, the eve of the People’s Republic’s 65th birthday, Xi Jinping’s 15-month “mass line” campaign finally came to an end. ...

Play school

Planet China Guizhou has been caught up in a college hoo-ha in recent…

Guizhou has been caught up in a college hoo-ha in recent weeks after a new university campus hung up banners from elite institutions like Oxford, ...

The farce is with you

Cartoons The farce is with you

When Darth Vader wanted to flush Luke Skywalker and his forces out of their rebel base on Hoth, he sent in gigantic AT-AT Walkers (all-terrain armoured ...

Counting the pennies

Sino-File “If you want to earn big sums, you should not be…

Sinopec boss Fu Chengyu comments on changes to executive pay at SOEs. Local media reports that heads of state firms face a salary cap of ...

Friends and foes

And Finally Why Jimmy Carter got cold shoulder in Beijing

If former US President Jimmy Carter’s recent trip to China is anything to go by, the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in Beijing ...

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