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WiC 33 (Oct 2, 2009)

Economy, Talking Point What happens when 1.3 billion people get the week off? They…

The French commitment to liberte, egalite and fraternite is a famous one. Some now claim that “holiday” would make for a ...

From bureaucrat to billionaire

Chinese Character Ye Chenghai is arguably the man who best embodies modern China

Born at midnight on August 15, 1947 Saleem Sinai is a living allegory: a man whose life is inextricably entwined with the story of modern ...

Society Training for the next generation

82 year-old Wu Renbao knows a thing or two about commercial success, even if he is careful not to crow about it. The retired party secretary of a ...

Getting the message

Entertainment Spy stories captivate

Chinese espionage has a long history. The Art of War, written by Sun Tzu (544 to 496 BC), is filled with tales of spies and ...

Not very hoopful

Sport The prospects of foreign basketball stars playing in China look dim

Kobe Bryant, China’s favourite NBA star, told reporters in Hangzhou recently that he might end up playing for a Chinese basketball team. “I’d ...

A paradise (but no jobs)

Environment The birds and the fish are happy; the locals of Poyang…

The consequences of failing to protect the environment are widely apparent in China. The results are usually worrying. But the county of Poyang is ...

Raining on the parade

China and the World, China Ink Foreign and Chinese media offer widely differing views on the National…

A well-prepared event? The Chinese media evidently thought so. The two and a half hour parade went off without a hitch. About ...

All the tea in China

China Consumer Why Lipton outsells China’s 70,000 local teas

Legend has it that the Chinese have been sipping tea (pronounced as cha in Mandarin) since 2737 BC. Tea was traditionally regarded as one of the ...

Who’s Hu Wastepaper queen

China’s richest woman, Zhang Yin was born in 1957 in Heilongjiang province. The daughter of a lieutenant in the Red Army, she started out in accounts ...

Banking & Finance Geoghegan’s big China move

Back in March 1865, a Scot named Thomas Sutherland thought it might be a good idea to open a bank in Hong Kong to take advantage of growing trade with ...

The ‘Pauper’s Bank’

Banking & Finance Forget US sub-prime – Alibaba boss wants to lend to China’s…

Use the term ’pauper’ and many people will recall Mark Twain’s famous novel The Prince and the Pauper. But if the description seems a little ...

Planet China In common parlance, statistics are often associated with ‘damned lies’, and…

In common parlance, statistics are often associated with ‘damned lies’, and rarely with poetry. But with the People’s Republic this week ...

Cartoons BMW in the red

To celebrate “the great achievements of the Chinese government and its people in the last 60 years,” BMW is introducing a special edition BMW ...

General confusion

And Finally Is he or isn’t he? Newspapers unclear on Mao junior’s promotion

As a grandson of the Great Helmsman, Mao Xinyu was always going to attract his fair share of national attention. And so it has turned out this month, ...