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Issue 270
WiC 270 (Feb 13, 2015)
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Here comes the sun king
Energy & Resources, Talking Point Is Hanergy’s Li Hejun really China’s richest man?

In the 2009 novel The Curse of Forbes, the protagonist describes the likely fate of those who find themselves on the magazine’s list of ...

Chipping in
Internet & Tech Is China buying its way into the global semiconductor industry?

Jerry Sanders, founder of America’s Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) once called computer chips the “crude oil of industry” and the foundries, which ...

What to expect from the Goat
Society Previewing the Lunar New Year

We are entering the most confusing year of the Chinese zodiac. The Chinese ‘Year of the Yang’ means both the Year of the Goat and the Year ...

Buy order
Banking & Finance Everbright snaps up storied Hong Kong broker

Fung King Key couldn’t even speak English when the diminutive Hong Kong financier visited New York in 1980. But that communications drawback didn’t ...

Off the rails
China and the World China’s overseas projects in political hot water

Is China doing its due diligence before investing overseas? That’s the question local academics and newspapers asked this month after at least three ...

Old, and cold
Economy Can Chinese planners revive the Northeast?

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the People’s Republic, a special stamp was issued in 1954. It featured the Fuxin coalmine in Liaoning province. ...

The war on VPNs
Internet & Tech China proves it can ‘nail Jello’ to the Great Firewall

At the turn of the millennium US President Bill Clinton famously compared China’s efforts to restrict access to the worldwide web to being like ...

At a loss
Auto Industry Renault’s Chinese dealers are in a furious mood

"Going to a Lincoln dealership in China is an experience,” the brand’s president Kumar Galhotra tells Detroit News. “People bring their whole ...

The drone proposal
Entertainment Zhang Ziyi says yes to marriage but Shenzhen dronemaker steals show

The love life of Wang Feng is almost as colourful as that of Jennifer Lopez. The 43 year-old rock star – who stars as a mentor on the hit show The ...

Voice over
Entertainment HK singer fails China contest

Last year, Hong Kong singer Deng Ziqi (who goes by the name G.E.M.) became the biggest breakout star on the second season of Hunan Satellite TV’s ...

Pocket rocket
Planet China China famously invented the firework. And now it says it has…

China famously invented the firework. And now it says it has invented the first ‘green’ firecracker too. The reusable, non-electric, non-chemical ...

Levered to the hilt?
Sino-File “Before the [post-2007] crisis there was one area where debt was…

Luigi Buttiglione of hedge fund Brevan Howard on China’s debt levels, which have quadrupled since 2007 to the equivalent of 282% of GDP. This ...

Buzzing Barack
Cartoons Buzzing Barack

It sounds like a Hollywood script: an unmanned aircraft of Chinese origin evades secret service defences and lands on the White House lawn (it even ...

Cell phoning
And Finally What life is like inside China’s rowdiest prison

Another week, and another prison story hits the local press. Regular readers will recall that a fortnight ago we reported on how jailed officials were ...

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