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WiC 39 (Nov 20, 2009)

M&A, Talking Point Danone drinks joint venture comes to an end. What lessons can…

As one major foreign investor inked a new China deal this month, another was heading for the exit. Disney’s $3.6 billion theme park investment – in ...

Taking off the subs

Banking & Finance Bank regulator closes door on subordinated debt

Among the more incredible remarks made in the rather incredible year of 2008 was the John Thain quip: “Right now we believe that we are in a very ...

Big is beautiful

Economy Lipton's tea and why the government wants to consolidate industries fast

If you are trying to understand the direction of Chinese industrial policy, there are clues in the success of a long-departed Glaswegian tea ...

Lacking judgement

Entertainment Flouting 5,000 years of tradition, TV show promotes plain-speaking

Zhou Enlai “was perfection in the waltz”, noted the American journalist Anna Louise Strong. Strong spent six months living in the bleak caves of ...

China Consumer Why China's filthy air could promise purer profit for an appliance…

A cold November does not rank as the best time to see Beijing. But as Barack Obama stepped off Air Force One this week, He Lumin will have ...

An umbrella saves the day?

China Ink Obama seeks shelter from the weather, and newfound Chinese confidence

he World News Journal thought that the “opportunities for engagement” between the two countries were increasingly “rich and stable”. But ...

Who’s Hu Switched on at Suning Appliance

Zhang Jindong was born in 1963 and studied at Nanjing Normal University. In 1984 he abandoned his course in Chinese literature to try his hand at ...

Red Star Ma Ke

Born in Jilin, Ma Ke is considered one of the more important emerging fashion designers in China. In 1996, Ma started her ready-to-wear brand ...

Society Migrants complain about permit scheme discrimination

Zhang Yong has lived in Beijing with his wife Wang Caiying for eight years. The two met in the city, got married, and in 2004 bought a house in the ...

Tightening of the net

Sport Over 100 questioned in soccer fixing clampdown

For Beijing Guoan, October 31 was a day of celebration. A capacity crowd of 64,000 watched the football team crush Hangzhou Greentown 4-0 and win – ...

Society Auction houses report revival in Chinese antique sales

"Nothing demonstrates more clearly the art-market axiom that art goes where the money is,” the deputy chairman at auction house Bonhams recently told ...

The worm that turned

Environment Boom in natural remedy leads to holes across the Tibetan plateau

For greed all nature is too little, warned the Roman philosopher Licius Seneca. The saying seems an apt one today, when overexploitation is a common ...

Choose us, Terry

Internet & Tech Cities compete for investment from Taiwan's most famous businessman

The important thing in any organisation is leadership, not management. A leader must have the decisive courage to be a dictator for the common ...

Stubble trouble

Planet China An old British axiom has it that you should ‘never trust…

An old British axiom has it that you should ‘never trust a man with a beard’. Well, Henan province’s Department of Justice seems to agree. Its ...

Damp squib or good fortune?

Cartoons Damp squib or good fortune?

You’ve heard of raining on a politician’s parade. Well, in Shanghai this week it was a case of raining on Hillary’s tent – and an unfinished ...

Blue Hawaii wants red China

And Finally The 50th state welcomes a doubling in the number of Chinese…

Starwood Hotels recently finished the first round of Chinese language and cultural training for 1,000 employees at its four hotels along Waikiki beach ...