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WiC 332 (Jul 8, 2016)

M&A, Talking Point How a herbal tea brand ended up in one of China’s…

During the Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin last week more than 300 foreign delegates were invited to a special ‘Guangzhou Night’. To accompany the ...

Property Why the world’s highest building is not in China

By now China should have been home to the world tallest building – Sky City, a 202-storey tower in Changsha, the capital of Hunan. But things have ...

Hugely divisive

Rail & Infrastructure Floods this summer are set to give the Three Gorges Dam its…

Mao Zedong once wrote a poem entitled ‘Swimming’, an ode to his vision for the Three Gorges Dam, a project that he strongly advocated. ...

Auto Industry Daimler gets support from BAIC as it rejigs Fujian joint venture

In 1985 a Chinese version of the Cherokee Jeep rolled off the production line at a factory in Beijing. It was the result of one of the earliest joint ...

Welded together

Energy & Resources Can a Baosteel-Wisco merger trigger further industry consolidation?

At the end of June, workers installed the final segment of the world’s longest sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau. Guangzhou-based ...

Higher is better

China Consumer How a change in pricing strategy might help P&G to win…

After Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry and Roger Federer had appeared together in an ad campaign for shaving products in 2008, there were rumblings about the ...

Who’s Hu Enlight Media

TIME magazine was co-founded in 1922 by Henry Luce, who worked as a journalist before launching his media business with his former Yale classmate ...

Toeing the Party line

Media China’s journalists are going through tough times

The TV series Heaven Cannot Abide Weak Women tells the story of a female journalist at a regional newspaper. It begins in the present day with ...

Run, rabbit, run

Entertainment, Society Meet China’s most popular national mascot

Over this year’s Easter weekend, one British TV channel endured a barrage of criticism after it decided to air the 1978 animated adaption of the ...

Red Star Star on the court

It’s been nearly a decade since a Chinese national was picked during the NBA draft. But an early-entry candidate from Henan has just broken the ...

China’s Michelin stars

Entertainment, Society A culinary drama has an extravagant budget but divides critics

After collecting years of data, Netflix found that on average, it takes subscribers a week to binge-watch an entire season of their favourite ...

Planet China China’s construction craze has delivered buildings with some rather distinctive shapes.…

China’s construction craze has delivered buildings with some rather distinctive shapes. Perhaps the most famous is the Beijing headquarters of ...

Stay the course

Sino-File “Turning our backs or abandoning Marxism means that our Party would…

President Xi Jinping addresses officials last Friday in a speech to mark the Party’s 95th anniversary. Though present-day China is some distance from ...

Telescopic vision

Cartoons Telescopic vision

The last deflector panel was hoisted into place on Sunday, reports Xinhua, meaning that China has completed construction of the world’s largest radio ...

And Finally Court punishes editor for national heroes slur

History is written by the victors. The observation – purportedly from Winston Churchill – is true in China too. The country’s official narrative, ...