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WiC 32 (Sep 25, 2009)

Don’t bank on it

Banking & Finance Small businesses are getting the credit cold-shoulder

A man suffering from an excess of lice will soon stop itching, predicts the Chinese proverb, just as a borrower with too much debt gets less worried ...

From Mao to now

Society, Talking Point How China’s changed – for better and worse – since October…

Sixty years ago, when the People’s Republic of China was founded, its GDP per head was $439. Less well known is that the country’s GDP per capita ...

Environment Why the government is 100% sure there’ll be no rain on October…

There’ll be no raining on their parade next week, if Beijing’s rocket men have their way. The city’s weathermen would normally estimate a 30% ...

Section, Who’s Hu From Red Guard to billionaire

Liu Yonghao’s life story seems to match much of China’s own transition in recent years. Born in 1951 in Sichuan, he was 14 when the Cultural ...

History Lessons Honesty not always the best policy?

Hai Rui (1514-1587) started his political career as a school clerk during the Ming Dynasty. He won public support for his morality, honesty and ...

Society Former premier still popular for anti-graft stance

"I only hope when I retire, the national people will say: ‘He is a clean officer, not a corrupt one.’ I would be happy with that. If they say Zhu ...

China awes the world: Act Two

Society Expectations are high for next week’s National Day parade

Rather than rest on its laurels after the spectacular display at last year’s Olympic opening ceremony, Beijing has called in director Zhang Yimou for ...

Stand and deliver

Others State postmen maintain their monopoly

October 1 is turning out to be a red letter day for China’s postmen. Not only will they get the day off (and a national parade to boot) but they’ll ...

Genghis Khan’s billionaires

Economy You might be surprised to discover where China second richest city…

Legend has it that Genghis Khan stopped at Erdos to admire the area’s lush grasslands and herds of deer. He was so captivated by the place he decided ...

Speaking the same language

China and the World English set to be replaced as Singapore’s first language – by…

When Deng Xiaoping travelled to southern China in 1992 to campaign for faster economic liberalisation, he seems to have liked what he saw: ...

From the ground up

Energy & Resources A Chinese energy firm is betting on the prospects for geothermal…

Most of WiC’s coverage of China’s renewable energy future has peered skywards, primarily at the prospects for wind and solar power ...

Planet China In the movie Caddyshack, there’s a golf-obsessed surgeon who frequently keeps…

In the movie Caddyshack, there’s a golf-obsessed surgeon who frequently keeps his patients waiting while he ‘gets in’ 9 holes. Cao Longbao may be ...

CIC’s noble approach

Cartoons CIC’s noble approach

In his Analects, Confucius spends much time defining what constitutes junzi – a term that literally translates as ‘the noble man’. China’s ...

Suits you, sage

And Finally Warren Buffett prefers Dalian’s Dayang to Savile Row

At this year’s Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting – one of the highest profile events on the US investor calendar – Warren Buffett was ...