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WiC 268 (Jan 30, 2015)

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Change of guard

Economy, Talking Point Are Li Ka-shing and Citic making rival bets on China’s future?

China’s biggest conglomerate has a long and deep relationship with Hong Kong’s richest man. When Citic Ltd was founded in 1979, Li Ka-shing was one ...

Four wheel drive

Auto Industry Can LeTV make electric cars as well?

After months spent elusively overseas, Jia Yueting resurfaced in mid-December. The chairman and chief executive of LeTV, one of China’s most popular ...

Viva Espana

Sport Wanda boss keen to woo Spain

Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, ...

Power switch

M&A Can Chinese owner recharge Nanfu Battery?

The first order of business for Procter & Gamble’s chief executive AG Lafley – who came out of retirement last year for a second stint at the ...

The house wins

Property As casino boom fades will Macau’s property market also stall?

Forget its replica of the Eiffel Tower or the fake San Luca canal. For evidence that Macau was booming, you only needed to look at the price of a ...

Foreign policy

Economy China to legalise foreign stakes in tech firms

Who is in control? It is a subject which has taxed Chinese government officials ever since the founder of the Han Dynasty died in 195 BC. Who should ...

Sit Kwong Lam

Who’s Hu Brightoil Petroleum’s chairman

It has been difficult for China’s private energy firms to compete head-to-head with the trio of state-controlled oil companies. But feasting on the ...

Jobs report

Economy Is labour shortage imminent?

China’s national census was published last week and showed that the population had increased 7.1 million to 1.36 billion. But the figure that Chinese ...

Moving the mountain

Environment Why does Lanzhou want CNPC, its main taxpayer, out of the…

Yu gong yi shan is one of China’s most famous parables and dates from more than 2,000 years ago. It tells the story of an old man who ...

Home entertainment

China Consumer Restaurant banquets are out, buying fine crockery and silverware is in

If you ever pondered the difference between an oyster fork and an escargot fork, you are not alone. In the wake of China’s crackdown on corruption, ...

To the manor born

Entertainment One of China’s favourite singers gets married in Yorkshire

He was one of Hollywood’s most eligible bachelors; she an accomplished human rights lawyer. So when George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin exchanged vows ...

Fit to print?

Society Newspaper in ethics storm

When the 168 year-old News of the World was shut down in 2011, the actor and comedian Steve Coogan described it as “a wonderful day for the press; a ...

Li Zhuangping

Red Star A painter who caused controversy over his model choice

Born in 1948 in Sichuan province, Li Zhuangping is a painter who is categorised as part of China’s modern romantic-realist school. Currently a ...

Guess who?

Planet China Many graduates may recall missing the odd lecture during their university…

Many graduates may recall missing the odd lecture during their university days, perhaps from over-imbibing the night before. However, at one Chinese ...

We love our country, but love clients more

Sino-File “We are a Chinese company, we definitely advocate the Communist Party…

Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei reiterates that the telecoms equipment manufacturer is a purely commercial concern, in spite of US allegations that ...

Plane mad at being accused

Cartoons Plane mad at being accused

Twenty years ago ‘hack’ would most likely have been taken to mean an uninspiring journalist. Today pretty much everyone thinks about the word more ...

Patently ridiculous

And Finally To cut jail time, inmates are becoming inventors

Time off for good behaviour is a commonly used phrase in American and European prison systems – indicating that an inmate’s jail time can be ...

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