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WiC 317 (Mar 18, 2016)
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Box office bombshell
Entertainment, Talking Point Alleged scam rocks China’s film industry as financing model is questioned

For years Mike Tyson has wanted to be taken more seriously as an actor. The former boxer has had cameo roles in films like The Hangover and ...

When the chips are down
Telecoms ZTE ruling may hasten China’s push for tech self-sufficiency

The last time that ZTE Corporation had a run-in with regulators in the United States its response was relentlessly positive, with claims that the row ...

Going underground
M&A Vanke hops on the Shenzhen metro in a bid to derail…

In the 1970s the Japanese were keen to export their railway expertise. A consortium led by Mitsubishi signed an agreement to build a metro system in ...

Judgement day
Internet & Tech, Society The last hope for humanity is...

In 1997 the world chess champion Garry Kasparov lost a six-game match to IBM’s Deep Blue. The Russian had seen off Deep Blue in 1996 but 15 months ...

Gate crashing
Property Private housing enclaves may soon be a thing of the past…

In 1958, inspired by the designs of the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong decreed that Chinese rural folk should adopt a communal mode of living: production ...

Top of the league
Banking & Finance, Sport A trade on Beijing’s ‘third board’ makes team the world’s most…

Are China’s Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao really the most valuable football club in the world? This claim was made by Xinhua ...

Yeung Kwok-keung
Who’s Hu Country Garden

Both Forbes and Hurun have ranked Country Garden’s controlling shareholder Yang Huiyan as China’s richest woman. But it is her father, Yeung ...

Anti-occident
Entertainment Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel deemed too “Westernised”

In the first year of the new millennium, Chow Yun-fat and Michelle Yeoh soared across the silver screen as protagonists in Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...

Level playing field?
Sport Why Chinese female footballers deserve higher pay

England prides itself as football’s birthplace, but any hubris on this score is mixed with a certain humility, as the nation also views itself as ...

A new chapter
China Consumer Online retailer Dangdang plans to open 1,000 ‘bricks and mortar’ stores

As e-commerce has spread across the globe, newspapers have often heralded the ‘death of the high street’, as the lower overheads of online ...

A horrible way to die
World of Weibo A horrible way to die

Shock, disgust and deep anger. These were the feelings many netizens expressed last week after it emerged a 43 year-old women from Xi’an had starved ...

The 300
Planet China At its core, Xi Jinping’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ plan is…

At its core, Xi Jinping’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ plan is aimed at rekindling trade along the ancient Silk Road. One of the indirect outcomes could ...

Turbulence over?
Sino-File “Recently the trend has been a return to normality, a return…

China’s central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan tells a press conference that “doomsayers were underestimating the economy’s resilience”, ...

More hotels for Anbang
Cartoons More hotels for Anbang

In 1893 William Waldorf Astor built the Waldorf hotel in New York, naming it after himself. His cousin – John Jacob Astor IV – built a hotel next ...

Talking shop
And Finally Chinese parliament’s more ridiculous proposals

Three years into Xi Jinping’s campaign to clean up and strengthen China’s ruling Communist Party, the message to lawmakers at the annual ...

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