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WiC 37 (Nov 6, 2009)

How 28 IPOs got suspended

Banking & Finance New “Nasdaq-style” stock exchange in rollercoaster opening

Feng Xiaogang is China’s most successful movie director. Thanks to ChiNext’s he’s also the richest too. Feng owns 2.3% of Huayi Brothers, the ...

Fast track spending

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point High-speed rail hits the headlines, as new network takes shape

An express engine for the economy or a fast track too far? It’s one of the questions being raised this week, on news that the Chinese are moving ...

Safe as houses?

Property Investors may have had enough of real estate IPOs

As the old saying goes: when it rains, it pours. After a hiatus, China’s capital-hungry property developers are now flooding the Hong Kong ...

From rich to poor in 3 hours

Economy If you’re looking for a shocking contrast, drive to Hebei …

China is a country of contrasts. And one particular measure doing the rounds at the moment is how long it takes to drive from the 21st century ...

Jackson film sells out

Entertainment Farewell movie pulls in huge audiences across China

In his lifetime he was “Wacko Jacko,” but for millions of Chinese Michael Jackson is still the beloved “King of Pop”. No surprise then that ...

Well, it sounds good….

Energy & Resources China sees major energy potential in permafrost

"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” American poet Robert Frost is unlikely to have imagined that the words he once used to ...

A more Khan-do spirit

China and the World CIC announces Mongolian mineral deals. What would Genghis think?

What ‘lies beneath’ has long had the potential to stir controversy between China and its Mongolian neighbour to the north. And so it was again ...

Who’s Hu The man behind Tencent

Ma Huateng was born in 1971 in Guangdong province and went on to study computer science at Shenzhen University. He joined China Motion Telecom as a ...

Clawing back profits

China Consumer In China even crabs (the expensive ‘hairy’ variety) are widely faked…

Walk through the streets of Shanghai this month – the height of hairy-crab season – and you will see what a big business hairy crab has ...

Environment Why the Three Gorges Dam is in the news again

Mao Zedong once wrote a poem in which he observed “to struggle against the earth is endless joy”. Another slogan popular during his 37 year ...

Bit on the side

Society Official calls for mistress clampdown

In If You Are the One the actress Shu Qi plays the mistress of a wealthy man named Fong. In the 1991 classic, Raise the Red Lantern, Gong Li starred ...

Society Cynics debate motives behind billionaire’s philanthropy

If you flick through the 29 chapters of The Great Thoughts of China you will find no mention of the word ‘philanthropy’. A book of ...

Fast Food Hamming it up

What is it? Xuanwei is to the Chinese what Iberian ham is to the Spanish. Salty, savoury, and chewy, the dry-cured ham is often ...

Bare on the bus

Planet China In the pantheon of Chinese weirdness, here’s one deserving a high…

In the pantheon of Chinese weirdness, here’s one deserving a high ranking. According to the Wenzhou Metropolis Daily, “a 40-something woman” ...

It’s fast, it’s very fast

Cartoons It’s fast, it’s very fast

At a cost of $88 million it had better not flop. Or rather, it better petaflop. This week China unveiled its new supercomputer, which at its peak speed ...

Food for thought

And Finally A fortune teller predicts a catastrophe in China for top French…

Europe’s greatest chefs are coming to China. Last week, El Bulli’s chef Albert Adria was in Beijing where he described Chinese dishes as ...