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WiC 4 (Feb 27, 2009)

Steeling for tough times

Energy & Resources, Talking Point Mergers announced in China’s giant steel industry

Andrew Carnegie, a tycoon who knew a thing or two about the steel industry, once proclaimed: “The nation that makes the cheapest steel has other ...

Meet the Guanyang Gang

Energy & Resources The story of the world’s hardiest (and perhaps canniest) miners

Mining fever of the popular imagination is all about the gold rush – the chaos of thousands of prospectors descending on places like the Klondike in ...

The banks that like to say yes

Banking & Finance What lies behind the colossal increase in bank lending?

The credit crunch has taken many of us back to a more basic vocabulary, and not just in terms of our choice of expletive. The loss of confidence in ...

The cutting room

Entertainment Censors say no to Jackie Chan’s latest movie

The promotional blurb for Jackie Chan’s latest film Shinjuku Incident promises studio audiences that they will see a side of the Hong Kong film star ...

Property Cashed-up Chinese are buying property in the US

For years, mainland shoppers have flocked to Hong Kong to spend their hard-earned cash on Rolex watches and Ferragamo shoes. Despite the global ...

Patents pending

Others Investment in innovation picks up

Back in the early 1950s, Mao Zedong told Indonesia’s then president Sukarno: “Frankly speaking, we haven’t got a lot of things for export apart ...

Sport Finding alternative uses for Beijing’s Olympic stadia

The Olympic curse is back. In the months leading up to the Beijing spectacular last year, China was swept with text messages claiming that the official ...

You (bronze) rat!

Society Controversy surrounds auction of Chinese artefacts

When Lord Elgin’s Anglo-French forces marched on Beijing in 1860, they were largely unopposed. It was quite possibly the most pathetic episode in ...

Environment America may have toxic assets. China has toxic water

A drought in eight provinces was bad enough (see WiC3), but a manmade water disaster in Jiangsu province is now grabbing the headlines too. Residents ...

Another mining disaster…

Energy & Resources But this time in a ‘safe’ coal mine; or is there…

A gas explosion, which killed 74 miners at Tunlan in Shanxi province last Sunday, has angered a Chinese media long used to reporting on industrial ...

Carpe diem in Chengdu

Economy Consumers boost spending after last year’s earthquake

Encouraging people to ‘live every day as if it’s their last’, is not part of the government’s current stimulus package. But it might be a ...

Planet China In South Korea, where plastic surgery is almost as common as…

In South Korea, where plastic surgery is almost as common as kimchi, girls routinely destroy photos from their youth. They don’t want fiancés and ...

A new era of pantsuit diplomacy?

Cartoons A new era of pantsuit diplomacy?

She spoke of buying US bonds and the challenges of climate change. Hillary Clinton arrived for her first official visit to Beijing last weekend and ...

And Finally The enduring value of Chinese proverbs

No less a figure than Hillary Clinton recently exclaimed: “I love Chinese proverbs.” During her recent trip to Beijing she peppered her speeches ...