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WiC 267 (Jan 23, 2015)

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Driving reforms

Economy, Talking Point Why debates on taxi deregulation have gained nationwide attention

It was King Charles I who launched the world’s first taxi service in 1638. Royal permission was given for 50 hackney carriages to “ply for trade” ...

Musk mystified by China

Auto Industry State Grid opens Beijing to Shanghai charging network, but not to…

Boosters of China’s electric vehicle industry got some welcome news last week. State Grid announced that it had installed 50 new charging stations, ...

Founding fathers

Economy Why investors are sweating over Peking University graft case

Most Chinese newspapers are put together using a desktop publishing system called Beida Founder. Beida is the Chinese name for Peking University, and ...

Cash call

Property Wanda courts new funding a month after IPO

You know life is tough for China’s property firms when big name developers make plain they want to get out of real estate. A prime case is Dalian ...

Spilt milk

Agriculture Why farmers are giving milk to pigs

"I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, with sufficient milk each day,” former premier Wen Jiabao declared in 2006. Almost a ...

Caffeine fix

China Consumer South Korean coffee chains become trendy in China

When the South Korean hit show You Who Came From the Stars went viral in China last year, it sparked a local craze for fried chicken and beer – a ...

Greenland gambit

China and the World China gets first Arctic resources project

One has to marvel at the string of events that led to Tianjin-miner General Nice buying a $2 billion iron-ore deposit in western Greenland late last ...

By the book

Entertainment Alibaba to make new film with Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-wai

It took director Richard Linklater more than a decade to complete the filming of Boyhood, a coming-of-age drama that was finally released late ...

Ownership issues

Sport A bad week for Chongqing football fans

Changes of ownership at football clubs can be tectonic moments for a team’s long-suffering fans. Sheikh Mansour’s transformation of Manchester City ...

Pot luck for pensions?

World of Weibo Pot luck for pensions?

Pension reform is not normally the stuff of social media. But starting from last Wednesday it has keeping netizens busy in China. How so? Because ...

Hero to Zero

Planet China Aren’t heroes supposed to be unforgettable? Last week a woman was…

Aren’t heroes supposed to be unforgettable? Last week a woman was spotted standing naked on a riverbank in Nanjing in Jiangsu province, before ...

Beware of the bogeymen

Sino-File “In 2004, it was outsourcing. In 1989, it was Japan. Now…

Netscape founder and tech investor Marc Andreessen tells the Financial Times that America always needs a threat to worry about, although he ...

Talking to the Taliban

Cartoons Talking to the Taliban

There were no photos, no official statements and no reports in the newspapers. But, most importantly, Beijing has not denied the news reports. In ...

Red alert

And Finally Investors left high and dry as wine plan wilts

The county of Harqin in Liaoning province sits on a similar latitude to some of France’s greatest wine regions. Realising this seems to have been ...

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