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WiC 291 (Jul 24, 2015)

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Into the slow lane?

Auto Industry, Talking Point A drop in sales leads to questions about China’s car market

The four volumes of Zhu Rongji on the Record offer a compilation of the speeches and memos from China’s vice premier and premier between ...

A living legend

Chinese Character Is Hong Kong IPO the closing chapter for China’s ‘godfather of…

Go to the business section of most bookstores in China, and you are likely to find three familiar faces on the shelves. One is Li Ka-shing, Hong ...

The print run

Healthcare Growing market for 3D technology in China, but local producers lag…

Xiao Cheng and Amina Khan are two of the modern wonders of medicine, thanks to advances in 3D printing. Xiao is a six year-old boy from Henan ...

Men of steel

Internet & Tech Are Chinese manufacturers ready for the robot revolution?

Robots were in the news last week when photos of a bowing droid went viral on the internet. The reason? The lifesize machine looked strikingly similar ...

150,000 angry folk

Economy Can Linyi survive a pollution crackdown?

In his efforts to tackle one of China’s most difficult conundrums, the mayor of Linyi city in Shandong province might be advised to emulate the ...

Beautiful M&A

China Consumer Founder to buy back TJoy but can he revive it?

Silicon Valley loves the story of a comeback. Following in the footsteps of Steve Jobs (Apple), Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Larry Page (Google) and Marc Pincus ...

Coming to the Americas

Rise of the RMB Is usage of the RMB rising in the US, Canada and…

The latest data from SWIFT, the financial messaging network, shows that more than a thousand banks worldwide use the yuan for payments with China and ...

Liang Yunchao

Who’s Hu Super salesman

Microsoft went public on NASDAQ in 1986 in a move that helped Bill Gates become the world’s richest man for decades. Liang Yunchao may hope to repeat ...

Once bitten, twice shy

Healthcare Local mosquitoes seem immune to foreign sprays

Some say that people with a particular blood type attract more mosquitoes and thus get bitten more. Apparently those with Type O blood are a favourite ...

An old hero returns

Entertainment Two Chinese animated movies prove major hits at box office

China’s first feature-length animated film was Lianhua Studio’s Princess Iron Fan in 1941. Inspired by the sixteenth century novel ...

Ants climbing a tree

Fast Food A classic Sichuanese dish

Ants Climbing a Tree is made of ground pork that is cooked in a spicy sauce before being poured over a bed of vermicelli. The sauce is usually made of ...

Punchy politics

Planet China Video footage of a fiery village meeting in Chahe near Tangshan…

Video footage of a fiery village meeting in Chahe near Tangshan in Hebei province has been doing the rounds this month, with clips from Phoenix TV ...

Chapter closed

Sino-File “I am convinced that their resolve and commitment to reform is…

World Bank boss Kim Jim-yong speaking during a trip to Beijing, in which he disavowed a report published by his organisation that had been critical ...

Project runway

Cartoons Project runway

Built for over €1 billion but abandoned three years after opening, Spain’s Ciudad Real airport now looks likely to become the property of ...

Get a room

And Finally Why a Uniqlo fitting room becomes a hot spot

Since opening its first shop in Hiroshima in 1984 Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo has built up a reputation for providing simple, brightly coloured ...

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