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WiC 34 (Oct 12, 2009)

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Energy & Resources, Talking Point A great discovery is celebrated. But the search for oil is…

They liked their state heroes more rugged in the old days. Certainly a bit more robust than the two bank branch managers that Beijing has been lauding ...

Banking & Finance China IPOs turn out not to be such a sure thing…

Every country has its certainties. In Britain, vegetables will be overcooked, a quick drink won’t be quick, and the average person will be able to ...

Economy With export factories short of people, can there still be a…

Stories of factories struggling to find the workers to fill their new export orders sounds like good news for the rest of us. At least, that is what ...

Investor Q&A Veteran businessman and investor recalls how much China has changed

Few Western businessmen can show a China stamp from 1970 in their passports. Still fewer can lay claim to being held at gunpoint by Chinese border ...

China Ink What did Wen Jiabao do for his Golden Week holiday? He…

So the trip was a big deal?

Wen Jiabao was the first Chinese ...

Sport Former hair salon owner buys into Premier League

English football has its fair share of Russian, Arab and American owners. It only had to be a matter of time before the Chinese began to ...

Red Star Charles Kao

Born in Shanghai, Charles Kao, now 75, moved to Britain to study electrical engineering. He received a doctorate in his field in 1965. He later went to ...

China and the World National Day ad enrages netizens but Sino-Japanese ties look brighter

China’s internet community is particularly peeved by last week’s ‘Toshiba’ incident. The problem was that the Japanese firm’s billboard ...

Who’s Hu Indomitable: TCL’s Li

Born in Guangdong in 1957, Li Dongsheng became a technician with TTK Corp. In 1985 TTK was renamed TCL and in 1987 Li was sent to visit Philips ...

Section In 1982 the average Chinese family would have considered a bottle…

In 1982 the average Chinese family would have considered a bottle of Coke the epitome of luxury. That was also the year in which Petrus bottled what ...

Entertainment Brothers take aim at movie heavyweights

Move over, Warner Brothers. China’s Huayi Brothers are vying to become a leading global movie producer. Huayi Brothers, founded by the two ...

Entertainment How Mao’s wife inadvertently spawned a classical generation

Five encores later, the audience in Hong Kong finally permitted 22 year-old pianist Wang Yuja to leave the stage. Then they formed a queue that snaked ...

Property Conflicting signals in commercial property

Too much money chasing too few deals. That seems to be one sentiment in the commercial property market – at least in Shanghai, that is. Last ...

Planet China Marriage break-ups may be on the rise in China, but Chongqing…

Marriage break-ups may be on the rise in China, but Chongqing declared itself a divorce-free zone this week. The nation’s biggest provincial ...

And Finally There are two million descendants of the philosopher, Confucius

He’s been dead for over 2,500 years but his family keeps growing all the same. According to the latest version of his family tree, Confucius ...

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