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WiC 299 (Oct 9, 2015)
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Reaching their Peak
Property, Talking Point Might Hong Kong property be set for a fall as China…

Back in the 1980s Hong Kong’s busiest shopping districts were dominated by Japanese department stores. Retail giant Yaohan even moved its ...

Nappy changes
China Consumer Chinese are buying one billion diapers a month

Long before disposable diapers became popular in China, most mothers used cloth rags or dressed their babies in clothes designed with open slits ...

Grafting away
Economy Why no government bureaucrat wants to get promoted in Shanxi

Purges can be brutal affairs. During Stalin’s Great Terror even his pet parrot perished after the Soviet leader whacked it on the head with his pipe ...

King Glasenberg’s mines
Energy & Resources Has Glencore become the hedge fund industry’s proxy for betting on…

The ancient custom of xiangfeng sees a copper bird fixed above a house to discern which way the wind is blowing. Nailing a bird to the roof ...

Returning to tradition
Healthcare Chinese medicine regaining traction in domestic healthcare market

In 1969, the Vietnam War was raging. In the dense jungles, where the Communist North Vietnamese troops waged a guerrilla war, malaria was a greater ...

Speedy Victory
China and the World China beats Japan in Indonesian rail tender

In 1978 Deng Xiaoping made a landmark visit to Japan seeking investment. During the trip he rode on Japan’s shinkansen, or bullet train. The Chinese ...

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Vintage performance?
Corporate Q&A Sotheby’s boss discusses wine auction business in Hong Kong and China

More than $6.8 million of fine wine went under the Sotheby’s hammer at two single-owner auctions and a multiple-owner sale in Hong Kong last weekend, ...

Give rugby a try
Society Rugby World Cup tries to lure Chinese TV viewers

It’s known as ‘English olive ball’ in China to differentiate it from American football. And while rugby remains very much a minority sport – ...

Sun Piaoyang
Who’s Hu Jiangsu's pharmaceutical king

Sun Piaoyang is one of the richest tycoons in Liangyungang, an R&D and production hub of China’s pharmaceutical industry. Getting ...

Fleshing out the rules
Entertainment New censorship diktat for soap operas makes life tougher for producers

According to Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus Helen of Troy’s face launched a thousand ships. In China’s current broadcasting environment, Fan ...

Explosive topic
Society A bombing in Guangxi sparks terrorism debate

Last Wednesday – on the eve of the People’s Republic of China’s 66th anniversary – a series of parcel bombs went off in the southern city of ...

Crowd control
Planet China An inglorious record for Hong Kong football was set in 2003…

An inglorious record for Hong Kong football was set in 2003 when only 24 tickets were sold for a top division league game (it was between Rangers and ...

Named and shamed
Cartoons Named and shamed

The famous Sinologist John King Fairbank was better known as Fei Zhengqing in China. His Chinese name was regarded as one of the best names for a ...

It isn’t free
Sino-File “China is not a market economy, it doesn’t meet the conditions”

Carlo Calenda, Italy’s trade envoy and vice-minister for economic development, says the EU should not grant China ‘market economy status’ as the ...

Madding crowds
And Finally Tourist crush still plagues China’s Golden Week

China’s Golden Week – which runs from October 1st to October 7th every year – is a national holiday in both senses of the word. Not only does it ...

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