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WiC 278 (Apr 24, 2015)

Grains of truth

Agriculture, Talking Point Will setbacks in China’s food security plans rattle commodity prices?

Thomas Robert Malthus is best known for his 1798 essay on overpopulation, which warned of a world in which humanity was unable to feed itself. Malthus ...

Corridors of power

Energy & Resources Pakistan energy deal heralds high-voltage plan

Xi Jinping commemorated his landmark trip to Pakistan this week with a mention to the local media that it was like going to visit the home of his ...

Turbo-charged to the top

Entertainment Why Furious 7 is smashing box office records in China

Only a few hours before Fast and Furious 7 reached Chinese cinemas, two drivers in Beijing had a go at rivalling the stunts in the film. The ...

Colombo investigates

China and the World Chinese concerned about deals unravelling in Sri Lanka

Xi Jinping may not have been familiar with the English saying that ‘two’s company but three’s a crowd’ when he suggested that China, India and ...

Banking & Finance What exactly does China’s most expensive stock do?

Last week was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Before the era of cross-Atlantic cables, the news travelled at steamboat ...

One Ting at a time

Economy Markets reverberate on mixed signals

What Gordon Gecko is to Wall Street, so Ting Hai is to Hong Kong. Over the past two weeks, the city’s newspapers have been full of speculation that ...

Ride to the rescue

China Consumer Theme park bosses look for foreign help

The Hello Kitty theme park made its technicolour debut in Zhejiang province at the start of this year. Costing more than Rmb2 billion ($320 million) to ...

Property Evergrande announces new plastic surgery resort

Evergrande boss Xu Jiayin suffered bit of a slap in the face in Sydney at the beginning of March, when Australia’s Treasurer Joe Hockey ordered him ...

Society Karaoke culture is waning

Until recently karaoke seemed to be as integral to Chinese culture as soy sauce and chopsticks. KTV bars were everywhere – even small villages – ...

Planet China An army marches on its stomach, according to Napoleon. And an…

An army marches on its stomach, according to Napoleon. And an officer in the PLA has just adopted the Corsican’s military advice, albeit in a ...

Flexible friends

Sino-File “I respect him as a teacher, an older brother and a…

ChemChina boss Ren Jianxin on Pirelli’s CEO Marco Tronchetti Provera. “If he wasn’t a good man, how could I shake hands with him, let alone hold ...

Cartoons Sand blasted

CCTV’s main offices in Beijing are known locally as ‘the underpants’ in an unflattering reference to the TV headquarters’ unusual design. The ...

And Finally China hopes for an end to its Hong Kong jinx in…

One of the most humiliating memories for China’s national football team was its loss in 1985 to Hong Kong in the World Cup qualifiers. After losing ...