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WiC 272 (Feb 27, 2015)
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So long, Hong Kong
China Tourist, Talking Point Taipei, Seoul and Tokyo are luring increasing numbers of Chinese tourists

China may offer carmakers their biggest market, but many of the nation’s drivers are inexperienced and roundly ignore traffic codes. And with ...

A fine romance?
Internet & Tech Internet giants in taxi truce, but the ‘war of the wallet’…

When the bosses of China’s top two taxi apps decided to merge this month, they picked February 14 to announce the news. Cheng Wei, Didi Dache’s ...

Bitter pill
Healthcare Foreign pharmaceutical firms are finding it tough going in China

R&D in Chinese medicine has taken some twists and turns throughout the country’s history, not least in the middle of the ninth century. That’s ...

Going global
China and the World Chinese New Year is becoming an international event

China became a republic on January 1, 1912 and amid the significant changes that followed, a key one was the decision to adopt the West’s Gregorian ...

Another bank job
Banking & Finance How a fake bank went unregulated in China

During a bank heist in Guangzhou, the armed robbers explained why employees shouldn’t give them any trouble: “This is the state’s money. But this ...

Eco justice
Energy & Resources Sinopec case puts biofuel policy in spotlight

Emperor Xuanzong was not impressed. The seventh and longest reigning ruler of the Tang Dynasty had rejected three successive envoys bearing horses as ...

A shaky celebration
Entertainment Biggest winner during CCTV’s New Year extravaganza looks to be Tencent

Satire and propaganda don’t mix. That’s the message from this year’s Spring Festival Gala which saw viewing figures drop to an all-time ...

Crying wolf
Entertainment Wolf Totem hits big screens

Six years ago when 20th Century Fox was looking for a director for Life of Pi it asked French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud. He refused, ...

Single ticket
Planet China Every Lunar New Year the media highlights the colossal numbers of…

Every Lunar New Year the media highlights the colossal numbers of Chinese using the country’s railways, as they return home to family gatherings ...

In reverse
Sino-File “I’m confident that Xiali will survive. When people are aware of…

Zhang Zhigang, a spokesman for FAW Xiali, tells the Wall Street Journal that the Chinese carmaker could see sales improve when it releases its ...

Dumpling debut in London?
Cartoons Dumpling debut in London?

Nicholas Lander, the restaurant critic at the Financial Times, was one of a number of food fans excited by reports that Din Tai Fung is to open its ...

Lost in translation
And Finally New Chinese names for UK tourist spots

Yan Fu was the most influential Chinese translator of the nineteenth century. A graduate of the Royal Naval College (of Greenwich in London), he was ...

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