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WiC 276 (Apr 10, 2015)
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Taking their medicine
Internet & Tech, Talking Point Putian’s bosses pull search advertising; Baidu’s stock catches cold

Last Saturday the Hilton hotel in the Putian was reminiscent of the scene from The Godfather film when the leading mafia families met to ...

Fit and proper
Telecoms Huawei gets green light from the Brits

One way in which China differs from, say, Britain, is the degree to which many of its people take an interest in the achievements of Chinese companies ...

The avocado advocates
China Consumer How the alligator pear is winning over Chinese shoppers

When supermarket chain Sainsbury’s first introduced the avocado pear to UK customers in 1962, unwitting shoppers assumed the new fruit should be ...

Sticking around
Internet & Tech A struggle for Youku Tudou in the Big Apple

In one of China’s biggest comedy films of 2014, two hapless musicians decide to pursue their dream career in New York, but end up ensnared in a war ...

No hiding place
Economy China unleashes Skynet against rogue officials

The Economist ran a lengthy profile of Wang Qishan a fortnight ago, declaring him to be “China’s second most powerful leader”. It likewise ...

Path to profit
Rail & Infrastructure Will state firms get a free ride on Xi Jinping’s new…

During last weekend’s tomb- sweeping holiday, state broadcaster CCTV devoted extended airtime to a commemoration of Chinese workers killed in ...

Aiming for higher things
Economy Shenzhen set to climb the ranks after the arrival of former…

Shortly before sending the lunar rover Jade Rabbit to the moon in December 2013, the commander-in-chief of the expedition was redeployed to ...

Make it wok
China Consumer Britain’s best-known oven brand hopes for a China makeover

Six years ago, when the British oven maker AGA Rangemaster was first planning to try out the China market, it asked a chef to work out which cooking ...

A hit with the critics
Entertainment A psychological thriller breaks the mould at the Chinese cinema

Cervantes’ knight Don Quixote is the insane protagonist of what is often regarded as the world’s first novel. And according to Andrew Scull’s ...

Drills, not pills
Society Plight of wayward retirees in focus after drug raid

The targets of a narcotics sting in Wenzhou in January were an unlikely crowd: a group of older women at a karaoke parlour. “Plain-clothes ...

Ladies man
Planet China Propped up in his hospital bed after a nasty car accident…

Propped up in his hospital bed after a nasty car accident last month, a man surnamed Yuan from Hunan province must have wanted visiting hours to be ...

Friendly rivalry
Sino-File “If the world’s multilateral banks, including the new ones, can form…

World Bank head Kim Jim-yong shows support for China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (see WiC275); a move the Financial Times ...

Breakfast of champions
Cartoons Breakfast of champions

Tech rather than toast was on the breakfast agenda at the Boao Forum in Hainan at the end of last month, when Tesla’s Elon Musk, Microsoft founder ...

Time to take the bus
And Finally Officials struggle with the driving test, after ban on chauffeurs

Large numbers of Chinese officials have suffered the ignominy of being stripped of their government cars. And now they are suffering the shame of being ...

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