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WiC 285 (Jun 12, 2015)
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The call to arms
Economy, Talking Point Sany hints at a move into defence, as other stocks hope…

In 1865 an American firm called Thos Hunt & Co. sold a lossmaking iron factory in Shanghai to the Qing government. Then known as Jiangnan Arsenal, ...

Asset swap
Property Investors switching from stocks to real estate

Chinese stocks have been comfortably the world’s best performers this year, with the Shenzhen index doubling, and the Shanghai Composite also ...

Fading glory
China Consumer As Gucci slashes prices, has it lost its allure for China’s…

When it comes to salacious corporate histories, there are few better than Sara Gay Forden’s The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, ...

Web of investments
Banking & Finance Internet giants are now using their big data to pick Chinese…

Chinese stocks have traditionally shown little correlation with economic growth. When China boasted the world’s fastest-growing economy between 2010 ...

The next media mogul?
Media Is Alibaba trying to create the Chinese Bloomberg?

What might China’s answer to Bloomberg look like? There have been no shortage of aspiring contenders. Wind In­­formation has made Michael ...

Showing patience
China and the World South Korean trade pact overshadowed by MERS outbreak

When the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak was at its worst in 2003, 127 countries had imposed some sort of restrictions on travel from ...

Stock picker
Banking & Finance Who is this investment guru?

Chen Shou-hong, a fund manager with Guosen Securities Asset Management, a Shenzhen-based investment firm, didn’t always have the Midas touch. In ...

Don’t bet on it
Cross Strait Taiwan can have Fujian’s water but not a casino

Kinmen, a cluster of tiny Taiwanese islands two kilometres off the coast of mainland China’s Fujian province, has always occupied a unique position ...

The new reality
Entertainment Clampdown denied, although regulator hints at future action on TV format

The Chinese Communist Party appears to have a problem with reality. Reality TV, that is. Rumours circulated widely this month that the all-powerful ...

Demolition job
Ask Mei Where are all the old buildings?

The Chinese pride themselves on being an ancient civilisation. But you can hardly see any old buildings in their cities. China is all modern ...

Tusk force
Society A new round of efforts to halt the ivory trade

It’s not often that China gets praised by international conservationists. But on May 29 that’s exactly what happened when Zhao Shucong, head of ...

From Russia with love
Planet China In a country where 115 boys are born for every 100…

In a country where 115 boys are born for every 100 girls, it might come as no surprise that Chinese men of marriageable age might have to look further ...

Obama’s big error
Sino-File “The Obama administration’s negative response to China’s proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment…

Former World Bank boss Robert Zoellick tells the Financial Times that the new bank’s purpose – building much-needed Asian infrastructure – is ...

Dammed by the data
Cartoons Dammed by the data

In a country where amazing statistics are rarely in short supply, Reuters found a corker in China this week. It pointed out that the amount of ...

Cuca’s clobbering
And Finally Soccer coach gets beaten up by a linesman

Over the years we have recounted some extraordinary episodes from Chinese football. For a long time we thought nothing could match a last-minute ...

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