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WiC 334 (Jul 22, 2016)

Batteries are included

M&A, Talking Point Why Samsung has decided that it needs to invest in carmaker…

After Warren Buffett splashed $230 million on a 10% stake in BYD in 2008, the wily Nebraskan looked to have struck a rapport with the Chinese ...

Prince of popcorn buys again

M&A Wanda continues cinema spree with Odeon & UCI takeover in UK

The Guinness World Record for the longest running cinema belongs to a former tea house in Beijing, where high society once watched Chinese opera over ...

Society Celebrities line up to endorse Beijing’s South China Sea claims

Last week the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague concluded that China’s “historic claims” to the South China Sea were invalid. There was ...

Power and glory

China and the World China’s South Sudan policy under scrutiny

On the evening of July 10 an armoured personnel vehicle carrying Chinese peacekeepers was shelled in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Four men ...

Chinese Models Suzhou manufacturing tycoon explains how he ‘mowed-down’ his rivals

For readers who are not into gardening and home improvement, you may not have heard of the brand WORX, a maker of power tools. But in the world of DIY ...

Drawing comparisons

Entertainment, Society Controversy over Japanese influence on animated film

The release of the smartphone game Pokemon Go on July 6 sent Nintendo’s shares skyrocketing $17 billion in a single week – with players ...

Shipping Cosco takes control in Piraeus, despite port worker protests

“Learn from the Germans! Work hard, never be lazy and always work seriously. Hard work, happy life.” That was the lesson last year from Fu ...

Beijing takes on grey area

Economy Capital city looks to move out its senior residents

Out with the old, in with the new – or at least, that seems to describe the attitude of the Beijing municipal government. In the past that has ...

A silver lining?

Economy A major population decline predicted

When Deng Xiaoping launched his market reforms, he famously prescribed that progress should be made in a manner akin to “crossing the river by ...

Environment Heavy downpours flood more Chinese cities

It was supposed to be capable of handling the kind of deluge that happens just once in a thousand years. Instead, the controversial Three Gorges Dam ...

Planet China The road trip is a staple of US literature (think Jack…

The road trip is a staple of US literature (think Jack Kerouac) and films (think, less cerebrally, of National Lampoon’s Vacation with Chevy Chase). ...

Sino-File “Aston Villa is like a lion in sleep”

Tony Xia discusses his purchase of the 142 year-old English football club, after his Chinese firm Recon Group finalised its $101 million purchase on ...

Who are you kidding?

Cartoons Who are you kidding?

The Oxfordshire village of Kidlington has no sites of historic interest and no obvious scenic spots. So its residents are wondering why this ...

And Finally Chinese scientist names newfound insect after Xi Jinping

George HW Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are the three American masterminds behind the second Iraq war but the trio also has another thing in ...