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WiC 35 (Oct 23, 2009)

The virtues of vice

China Tourist Macau’s casinos are first to bounce back

Stocks markets may go up and down but no matter what the economy is doing people will drink, smoke and gamble. It is reasoning familiar to those who ...

Steeling themselves

Energy & Resources Another confrontation looms over iron ore?

Bloodied but unbowed. That’s how the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) will be reviewing recent events, as the annual negotiations on the ...

Bordering on hysteria

China and the World, Talking Point Territorial disputes underline the fragility of Sino-Indian relations

China and India are brothers,” declared Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in the 1950s. But there’s growing fear in India of ...

Sport Inclusion as an Olympic sport should spur Chinese golf revolution

If annoying the Scots is your thing (and why not), tell them that it was the Chinese who really invented golf. Forget the ancient greens of St ...

It’s only natural

China and the World It’s gas, not Marx, shaping Sino-Russian relations

Sino-Russian relations have had their ups and downs. One Beijing academic traces the beginnings of China’s ‘era of humiliations’ to the Treaty of ...

Communication breakdown

Telecoms Mobile warfare rages as battle for 3G dominance heats up

Mainland business leaders are firm believers in the adage “the marketplace is a battlefield”. And when it comes to winning the battle, there’s ...

Walking into a minefield

China Ink Western newspapers pillory a (possible) Chinese mining investment in Guinea.

So has China’s investment in Guinea been welcomed? The Chinese press isn’t particularly enthusiastic about the deal – a $7 ...

Who’s Hu Supremo at Wanxiang

Lu Guanqiu is arguably modern China’s ‘debut’ entrepreneur, and in keeping with his stature as the nation’s first capitalist is a very rich ...

A suite homecoming

China Tourist Hotelier returns to Shanghai

For the past 60 years, Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels was a company with a rather misleading name. It didn’t actually have a hotel in ...

Free toothpaste, anyone?

Banking & Finance New push to reach 60 million without bank access

For most of the last decade the farmers of Fenxi County in Shanxi province have had no access to a bank. With no conventional financial services ...

Society Mrs Yu and her husband fired after cave confrontation

To some people the internet is just a way to exchange email, buy books and check the weather. But for bureaucrats in China, the web is a dangerous ...

Seoul’s supermarket sweep

China Consumer Korean retailer buys discount store operator in attempt to crack China

Golden for tourists, shoppers and – apparently – retailers too. This month’s national holiday seems to have shaped up well at the cash till, ...

Twice cooked pork

Fast Food Fit for an emperor

Twice cooked pork, (sometimes “double cooked pork”) is one of the most popular Sichuan dishes. The recipe sees pork ribs boiled first in hot water ...

Turning the page

Internet & Tech Will the e-book captivate Chinese consumers?

Knowledge, rather famously, is power. And in ancient China, book ownership was also a prerequisite for prestige and political authority. Qin Shi ...

Princelings and the revolution

Society The new red icons...

For many in China, the only thing better than being a revolutionary hero, is being the son or daughter of one. After all during the Deng Xiaoping ...

Planet China Crematoriums are, by nature, hot places. But few are currently hotter…

Crematoriums are, by nature, hot places. But few are currently hotter than a government-run funeral parlour in Liaoning province, where relatives of ...

On rocky ground

Cartoons On rocky ground

Many of our politicians seem to have trouble making apologies and China’s leaders are no different. So it was a major event when Premier Wen ...

And Finally Why an entrepreneur mailed Obama his revolutionary fly-slaying device

China’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ isn’t an eastern version of the famous novel about schoolboys marooned on an island. He’s an entrepreneur with an ...