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WiC 304 (Nov 20, 2015)

A night of terror

China and the World, Talking Point How did the Chinese react to last week’s terrorist atrocity in…

Shortly after 9pm last Friday three member of the so-called Islamic State (IS) approached France’s National Stadium in Paris and blew themselves ...

From Beijing with love

Entertainment Sony Pictures enjoys its biggest ever Chinese opening with new Bond…

Ling Ling Qi! Ling Ling Qi!” Even the ticket sellers sounded excited about Spectre at a cinema in downtown Beijing last weekend, heralding ...

No place like homes

Property More policy loosening on the cards for the property sector?

Singles’ Day started in the 1990s as a reaction to Valentine’s Day, when Chinese students started poking fun at their “bare stick” (i.e. ...

New Pearls for the Delta?

Economy Guangdong’s new special zones start to take shape

Of the four special economic zones created by Deng Xiaoping’s government in 1979, three were in Guangdong province. They were chosen in places on ...

Healthcare Chinese investors embrace the first psychiatric healthcare provider

Traditionally mental illness has been a taboo subject in China. In ancient times it was linked with demonic possession and in the 1960s mental disorder ...

Banking & Finance China to bring in a super financial regulator?

Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus always gives the same answer when interviewers ask him why the pioneering micro-credit institution has such low ...

Telecoms Cisco and Ericsson join up to meet Huawei threat

It is not often a Chinese brand features in the Financial Times’ “How To Spend It” supplement. But Huawei has just rubbed shoulders with some of ...

Society Cross-strait phone scam gang gets flown back to China

Xi Jinping has talked loftily about his China Dream as a “great national rejuvenation”. In real terms it is about projecting national power and ...

China and the World Why relations between Beijing and Hanoi were back in focus this…

We will continually review disagreements and overcome obstacles for the healthy, practical and steady development of bilateral relations for the sake ...

A destructive company

Planet China For the past three years Guangdong Hongda Blasting has been one…

For the past three years Guangdong Hongda Blasting has been one of the best performing state-run firms. Its share price has more than doubled since it ...

Cornering the market

Sino-File “It’s possible with the masterpieces that I will collect all the…

Tycoon and art collector Liu Yiqian talks to the Financial Times after making the world’s second most expensive purchase (at auction) of a work of ...

Top of the financial league

Cartoons Top of the financial league

Is China’s top football team worth as much as Manchester United? That is what Chinese media has been speculating, after Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao ...

Buried treasure

And Finally A major gold find off Shandong – 2,000 metres below the…

The science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea introduced readers to Captain Nemo and his exploration of the ocean’s depths in the ...