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WiC 353 (Jan 27, 2017)

Under starter’s orders

Sport, Talking Point Is China ready to lift its ban on betting on horse…

The oldest surviving state-owned enterprise in China, according to a documentary from state broadcaster CCTV, is the Shandan Horse Ranch in Gansu ...

Welcome to The Year of the Rooster

Society Take a look at what lies in store for your zodiac…

Even though the Communist Party dismisses all fortune-telling predictions as mere superstition, it appears that Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ...

And Finally Chinese confused over what to call ‘The Donald’

How do you translate names into a language that doesn’t have an alphabet? Words are easier – they have a meaning – but names are little more ...

Massaging the figures

Economy Liaoning governor confesses economic figures were cooked up

There were no great surprises last Friday when China’s statistics agency announced that the economy had grown 6.7% last year, almost dead in the ...

Environment Why Hongkongers aren’t showing enough gratitude to Heyuan residents

The state of Lesotho is surrounded on all sides by South Africa. Normally the two countries get on well enough, but last year Lesotho suffered from a ...

Still in the dark

Banking & Finance The latest hotspot in Chinese shadow banking: regional asset exchanges

When we gave China’s local government finance vehicles (LGFV) their first mention seven years ago (see WiC48), they were a pretty novel concept for ...

Auto Industry Tesla’s sales in China badly trail its home market

“The President-elect has a strong emphasis on US manufacturing and so do we,” ventured Tesla’s boss Elon Musk as he showed visitors around his ...

Internet & Tech More companies complain about Chinese taxes

The science fiction novel Solaris came to a very clear conclusion: it is futile for humans to try to communicate with other species; we will ...

Entertainment Can comedy genre bring joy to China’s box office?

She’s most well known for her role as ‘Little Swallow’ in the 1998 historical drama My Fair Princess, but actress Zhao Wei has come a ...

So when is Chinese New Year?

Society Why does Chinese New Year fall at different times each year?

Stories from the Bible suggest that there were shepherds working in the wilderness when Jesus was born. This has led some to conclude that Christ ...

China and the World More evidence of Chinese consumers’ love-hate relationship with Japan

While the English-speaking world thinks of the years between 1939 and 1945 as being consumed by the Second World War, for the Chinese the period is the ...

The brides of Baghdad

Planet China Last March the People’s Daily reported that a group of women…

Last March the People’s Daily reported that a group of women from Vietnam had married men from the same village in Fujian province. Shortly after ...

Sino-File “We will discuss the best way of allying with Tsingtao and…

Asahi President Koji Akiyoshi tells the Wall Street Journal that his firm’s 19.99% stake in brewer Tsingtao is “purely financial” but he is ...

Cartoons Animal spirits

China’s baijiu sector seems to be more than recovering from President Xi Jinping’s clampdown on graft and extravagance. We reported in May last ...