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WiC 302 (Nov 6, 2015)

Society, Talking Point How did Chinese citizens react to the end of the One-Child Policy?…

When the ruling Communist Party first announced the One-Child Policy 35 years ago it did so with an open letter in the People’s Daily. But when it ...

China and the World Li Ka-shing helps to forge closer China-Israel relations

China and Israel established diplomatic relations only 20 years ago, but commercial activity between the two has been picking up. This year China’s ...

Internet & Tech China’s largest online travel agencies team up

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is revered by corporate strategists as much as it is by military ones. Like most Chinese, Baidu’s founder and ...

M&A House of Fraser owner behind Hamley’s takeover

When Xi Jinping returned to China from his recent state visit to the UK his suitcases were weighed down with gifts from the Queen, including two Crown ...

Society TV broadcast rights for Chinese football league sold for record fee

Earlier this year the English Premier League (or the EPL as it is commonly known in Asia) sold the TV rights to its football matches for a record £5.1 ...

Environment WiC talks with China Water Risk about China’s bottled water industry

The Jinmao Tower rises 420 metres into the air, forming part of the iconic skyline that overlooks the Bund from Shanghai’s Pudong district. The ...

China Consumer No record for Yangzhou, as it seeks to cash-in on its…

Attending the APEC meetings in Shanghai in 2001, George W Bush is said to have so enjoyed Yangzhou fried rice that he ordered the dish almost daily ...

Energy & Resources Coalminers set for another five years in the cold

In 2009 China was roundly condemned in much of the West for doing its best to undermine the Copenhagen climate summit. Typical was an editorial in the ...

Society Why a kidnapping from 2004 has only now hit the big…

Until his forties Wu Ruofu was a bit-part actor, little known outside of his profession. But he became a little more prominent in 2004 after he was ...

Red Star China's answer to Coco Chanel

One of China’s best-known couturiers, Shanghai-based Grace Chen got her start in 1995 at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York, an ...

Planet China Some stay fit by jogging or going for a walk. But…

Some stay fit by jogging or going for a walk. But in Zhengzhou the latest fad is to go for a crawl in the park. China Daily reports that the exercisers ...

Cartoons The long arm of the law

Even billionaires should watch out, it seems. One of the most-viewed photos online this week featured Xu Xiang, resplendent in his white Armani jacket, ...

Sino-File “The US military will continue to fly, sail and operate whenever…

Admiral Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command, makes plain that last week’s sail-by near Subi ‘island’ will not be the last. He was speaking ...

And Finally The most difficult Chinese character to write is…

In the same way that a student of English might find it daunting to write hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, for Chinese students, there is biang. ...