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WiC 29 (Sep 4, 2009)

Case for diminished capacity

Economy, Talking Point Chinese leadership worries about over-investment

"We cannot be blindly optimistic,” Premier Wen Jiabao was warning last week. In which case he might want to get on the phone to the People’s ...

Energy & Resources Controversy as state-owned firm seeks to swallow privately-owned rival

It is hard to feel sorry for someone worth Rmb35 billion ($5.13 billion), but Du Shuanghua may be an exception. He’s being forced to sell his ...

Huang Jianhua’s slamdunk

Chinese Character Cavalier move by Chinese businessman has his nation cheering him on

The Chinese have a “deep respect for the Jewish people,” observes Peter Hessler in his book about living in China, River Town. In fact, in ...

Better relations in store?

China and the World Japan now welcomes Chinese tourists – especially if they have big…

At Mitsukoshi, one of Tokyo’s fanciest department stores, the shopping habits of China’s nouveau riche have been impressing even the most ...

Red Star Angelababy

Yeung Wing, better known as Angelababy, is one of Hong Kong’s top models. The 20 year-old was born in Shanghai, where her father ran a fashion ...

Lack of team work

Sport Tianjin’s football strikers

Tianjin and Manchester are just over 5,000 miles apart. But in football terms the distance could hardly be greater. Indeed, the players at Tianjin Teda ...

Crossing the digital divide

Society American students study fenqing fervour

We have written before (in WiC9) about China’s fenqing, the generation of “angry youth” prone to frenzied, online defences of the nation’s ...

The world of Du Lala

Entertainment Hit novel about office life gets ‘Sex and the City’ treatment…

Michael Lewis’ best-selling Liar’s Poker must be close to the top of the reading list for most aspiring Wall Streeters. The book, ...

Obama wouldn’t approve

Healthcare Want to see a doctor in China? See a ticket-tout first

For many Chinese, scalpers are a fact of life, for securing that last minute ticket to a concert or even a train seat home before the Chinese New ...

Environment Only 1% of the nation’s 640 million mobile phones get recycled

While iPhones and Ophones may be battling it out as China’s smartphone of choice, the country’s environmentalists have a different challenge: how ...

Who’s Hu "Tyrannical, but open-minded"

The 64 year-old Zong Qinghou from Zhejiang province was a teacher until he turned 42. Then he and two colleagues got Rmb140,000 of loans to start ...

Freedom of information ‘act’

Economy A new policy to curb corrupt bureaucrats is not going to…

Two “adult” film rentals, a duck house and the reimbursement of a £1 charitable donation were three of the more eye-catching examples in this ...

Planet China Stamp collecting and similarly sedate hobbies aren’t for Tao Xiangli. In…

Stamp collecting and similarly sedate hobbies aren’t for Tao Xiangli. In his spare time this Anhui resident prefers to build submarines. Following a ...

Hockey mum to hit Hong Kong

Cartoons Hockey mum to hit Hong Kong

The woman who introduced the wink into mainstream politics – as well as the peachy phrase ‘You betcha’ – is set to make her first foreign ...

Use them and lose them

And Finally The next hot IPO could be for a firm that makes…

Five thousand years ago chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, gained in popularity thanks to a philosopher. It was Confucius who discouraged the use of ...