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WiC 277 (Apr 17, 2015)

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Piling in

Economy, Talking Point What explains this month’s sudden rally in Hong Kong stocks?

Sell in May and go away? Or how about the ‘January Effect’? The unpredictability of the financial world has bred a series of indicators for the ...

Chain reaction

Economy Latest explosion boosts opposition to dangerous PX plants

"I told you so… this PX plant was always going to explode,” well-known blogger ‘Beijing Chief’ crowed last week. “It’s nothing to do with ...

Caught in a tailspin

Cross Strait Trouble in Taiwan after top-secret helicopter tour

In the 1983 film War Games Matthew Broderick plays a computer geek who changes a girl’s biology grade from an F to an A in a bid to impress ...

A durable rally?

Investor Q&A Why H-shares are hotting up in Hong Kong

Han Ching Choong is co-founder of Kriya Capital, a fund that specialises in China-themed investing. Between August 2012 and last December, her ...

A backlash against Hillary

China and the World Netizens unimpressed by Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid

In November next year, Xi Jinping could find himself as the first Chinese president to be younger than his American counterpart since the ...

One byte too many

Banking & Finance Eatery-turned-IT firm misses bond deadline

Stewing, frying, pot-roasting, braising and smoking are all hallmarks of Hunan cuisine. And perhaps they are what bond investors would like to do to ...

Punch-loving patriots

Entertainment Tyson targeted, as nationalistic action plots keep movie-goers happy

After scoring a part in The Hangover franchise, former boxing champion Mike Tyson took to the stage, appearing in the Broadway show Mike ...

Bunkering down

Sport 66 ‘illegal’ golf courses told to close

As WiC noted in its review of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream – Dan Washburn’s revealing retrospective of the sport’s ...

The empire, extinguished

World of Weibo The empire, extinguished

Late last Friday news emerged that Jin Youzhi, the only surviving sibling of China’s last emperor Puyi, had died in Beijing aged 96. He died of ...

Don’t mock Mao

Society TV host set to lose his job over dinner diatribe

A photo doing the rounds on weibo shows six men in motorbike helmets, visors down, eating dinner in a restaurant. In the centre of the table, their ...

Reganmian

Fast Food Hot dry noodles

Hot dry noodles, also called reganmian, are a traditional dish from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Typically eaten for breakfast, ...

A parable of pity

Planet China ­­Last month a student drowned while rescuing two children from going…

­­Last month a student drowned while rescuing two children from going under in a lake in Henan province. Onlookers credited the man with saving the ...

A rude awakening

Cartoons A rude awakening

Were visitors to IKEA stores in China about to be denied their forty winks? That seemed to be the case after an article in the Beijing Youth Daily ...

An illuminating thought

Sino-File “If all of China’s buildings were energy efficient, the annual savings…

From Mark Clifford’s new book The Greening of Asia, which includes insights on the challenges faced by China as it seeks to become the world ...

Lost and found

And Finally Missing iPhone sparks unlikely bromance

Losing a mobile phone can mean a suddenly shrunken social circle, especially for people who forget to back up their address books. But not so, for ...

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