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WiC 292 (Aug 21, 2015)

Rise of the RMB, Talking Point Does devaluation signal currency war or further renminbi reforms?

While not a scientific principle, Sod’s Law is a phenomenon most people can attest to. WiC got a taste of it this month. Just a few days after we’d ...

Tragedy in Tianjin

Economy The deadly explosion in Tanggu last week will have wider repercussions

The Tanggu district of Tianjin got its name from the English engineer Claude William Kinder, who supervised the construction of a railway line linking ...

Internet & Tech Why Alibaba decided to team up with Suning

Life must be tough for equity analysts covering Alibaba. Even when everyone else is on their summer holidays, the Chinese internet giant continues to ...

Shipping China set to unveil new shipping giant

Dash-dot-dash. In shipping parlance this message (in Morse code, or raising the blue and yellow “Kilo” flag) means ‘I have something to ...

Bags of trouble

China Consumer The Chinese are making luxury knock-offs nearly as good as the real…

Earlier this year Xiaomi’s founder and chief executive Lei Jun admitted that counterfeiting was seriously damaging the smartphone maker’s ...

Every firm’s worst nightmare

Cross Strait How an online video caused havoc for noodle maker Master Kong

Where are China’s internet police when you need them? That must have been what executives inside food producer Master Kong were asking earlier this ...

Screened for success

Entertainment Surge in new cinemas buoys a slew of box office records…

When James Cameron’s 1997 hit Titanic established itself as the most popular movie ever at the Chinese box office, it did so with takings of ...

Society BBC show follows a UK school using teachers from China

British teachers have educated many of the most outstanding students in modern China. For example, the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded by James ...

Red Star A new athletics darling

China’s elite swimmers recall Alexander Popov mostly for his toughness: the Russian won the 100-metre freestyle race in the 1998 world swimming ...

Planet China Breaking up is never easy. Regular readers of this column may…

Breaking up is never easy. Regular readers of this column may recall some of the more bizarre break-up reactions. Remember the woman who camped out in ...

Calling in the air support

Sino-File “The J-10 is a good option for the Iranians because it…

Aerospace journalist Wang Ya’nan on speculation that China will sell 150 J-10 fighter jets to Tehran. Another local expert told China Daily: “The ...

Journey down the Nile

Cartoons Journey down the Nile

Mao Zedong was not a frequent overseas traveller. His two trips outside China were to Moscow. So netizens and media were surprised to find his face ...

Smooth operators

And Finally Why mainland scammers are ringing Hongkongers off the hook

The Liaison Office of Beijing is the rather innocuous name used by the Chinese Communist Party for its Hong Kong headquarters. It says that one of its ...