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WiC 293 (Aug 28, 2015)

Economy, Talking Point Why China’s stock market rout proved contagious for the rest of…

"I’d buy him a double-sized Big Mac, but I wouldn’t give him a state dinner,” Donald Trump told Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly this week, ...

Harbouring doubts

Shipping Fatal blasts shed light on Tianjin’s “independent port kingdom”

In 2013 the Belgian chocolate maker “Italo Suisse” wanted to change its brand name because it was no longer associated with either Italy or ...

Discovering Donald

And Finally The Chinese are taking notice of Trump’s presidential run

"You have a problem with ISIS. You have a bigger problem with China,” explained Donald Trump when announcing his run for American president in June. ...

It’s grim up north

Economy China wants Russia and Mongolia to help revive its flagging rust…

It was said you could smell the advancing Mongol horde long before you could see them. Water was so scarce on the steppes that its people never bathed ...

China and the World Chinese keen to keep Bahamas hotel afloat

From his base on Nassau in the Bahamas, the pirate Blackbeard struck terror across much of the Caribbean during the early eighteenth century. As his ...

China Tourist A messy family feud over a cultural inheritance

The Qingming Festival is believed to have originated on the mountain named Mianshan in Shanxi province. Legend has it that the tradition was ...

Post-party blues

Property A white elephant is left after APEC jamboree

As a Chinese proverb goes, “To have friends come from afar is happiness, is it not?” Unsurprisingly the country’s leaders often makes huge ...

Lingering dreams

Entertainment Why a mid-80s drama by CCTV still resonates with Chinese audiences

Asked to choose a single TV show or movie to illustrate the starting point of China’s opening up and reform era in the past 30 years, overseas film ...

Society Fans of “China’s Harry Potter” gather at Changbai Mountain

Zhang Qiling, the good-looking hero of the fantasy series the Grave Robbers’ Chronicles, is stubbornly taciturn. In the course of the ...

Who’s Hu Hillhouse Capital

In issue 188 we reported how Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing, invested $1.1 million for 20% stake in Tencent in 1999 and walked away with a profit of ...

Planet China The Hollywood hit White Men Can’t Jump was released in 1992.…

The Hollywood hit White Men Can’t Jump was released in 1992. Were China’s producers to make their own basketball flick, it might be called ...

Fantasy fulfilled

Sino-File “Twenty years ago Dreamworks Studios and Huayi Brothers were founded. Dreamworks…

Huayi Brothers chairman Wang Zhongjun tells the South China Morning Post how China is set to become the world’s top film market. Last week he signed ...

Cartoons Waxed off

Madame Tussauds opened one of its famous waxworks museums just over a year ago in Beijing. But in another part of China a rival facility has been ...