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WiC 274 (Mar 20, 2015)

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Economy, Talking Point What messages has the annual NPC gathering sent out?

Placido Domingo’s performance of Otello so excited an audience in Austria that he was once given a record-breaking 80-minute standing ...

Reflected glory

Internet & Tech Meet the ex-factory worker that could be China’s richest woman

Leslie Chang’s 2008 book Factory Girls is an enlightening study about the countless Chinese women who work long hours in the ‘workshop of ...

A win for Alibaba

Internet & Tech Why Amazon opened a shop on Tmall

In business, there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. That seems to be the thinking behind a recent move by Amazon. After years of ...

Chocoholics?

China Consumer Ferrero to open first chocolate plant in China

The first record of chocolate in China is from the court of the Kangxi Emperor in 1706. A papal legate by the name of Charles-Thomas Maillard De ...

Distress signals

Shipping Will another Rongsheng rescue fall through?

"You may feel like a majestic rooster, but you can still end up being turned into a feather duster.” Such was the withering verdict of the Investment ...

Do your duty

Economy Guangdong’s plans for tax-free shopping may hurt Hong Kong

The antics of Chinese tourists overseas have received much comment in these pages. Generally, their hosts welcome business from Chinese visitors, but ...

Out of Africa

Energy & Resources China seeks control in troubled Sierra Leone mine

The head of Cape Lambert Resources is probably ruing the day he described West Africa as the new Pilbara. Last year’s precipitous fall in iron ore ...

A roaring success?

Entertainment Why a celebrity zookeeping series has alarmed animal activists

Li Yuchun first became a household name when she entered Super Girl, a reality singing competition made by Hunan Satellite TV back in 2005. ...

Under the hammer

Society Anti-graft campaign has been bad for Poly’s share price

Plenty of A-listers were to be seen at Art Basel Hong Kong when the art fair opened last Friday. Collector Ulli Sigg, Tate director Nicholas Serota and ...

Shen Jiawei

Red Star From military propagandist to papal portraitist

Of all the artists of the early Qing Dynasty, Lang Shining stood out for combining Western techniques (the use of perspective and realism) with Chinese ...

Punch drunk

Planet China It’s not unusual to see two friends fighting over a restaurant…

It’s not unusual to see two friends fighting over a restaurant bill. But in the town of Xiangtang in Jiangxi things went a little too far late last ...

New frontiers

Sino-File “Today, the most important bilateral relationship in the world is between…

Kishore Mahbubani writing in the Financial Times. The dean of the Lee Kuan Yew Public Policy School adds that the most significant meeting of the ...

And then there were two

Cartoons And then there were two

The Chinese military is not known for its transparency, but local media were surprised last week when a top official confirmed that the PLA’s navy ...

Naming rights

And Finally How netizens choose to identify global stars

Have you heard the latest album by Spicy Chicken or seen the recent film featuring Curly Luck? If you don’t recognise these names, you are not ...

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