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WiC 41 (Dec 4, 2009)

Emission impossible?

Environment, Talking Point China makes carbon intensity commitment on eve of climate conference

Three feet of ice is not the result of one cold day, the Chinese proverb notes. And change isn’t expected overnight either when it is global warming ...

Offline, off message

Internet & Tech Western web favourites fail to wow China users

They didn’t know what he was twittering on about, at President Obama’s ‘town hall’ gathering in Shanghai last month. Specifically, the ...

Have doubts, will discount

Banking & Finance Grey market deals hint that ChiNext is overvalued

When trading started on China’s new growth enterprise board, the ChiNext, at the end of October, some investors couldn’t cash out soon ...

Just too realistic

Entertainment Hit TV show is suspended

Skyrocketing property prices have the white-collars gossiping around the water cooler again. Except it is not real property prices that are ...

Beijing’s behemoth

Energy & Resources Why China Metallurgical is constantly in the news

Few words better suit a description of China Metallurgical than that of ‘behemoth’. It suggests something massive, sprawling, gargantuan but ...

Stars and strifes

China and the World Survey shows declining admiration for US

Tsinghua is China’s premier university, and counts China’s current leader Hu Jintao among its alumni. But it wouldn’t exist at all had it not ...

A developing market

Telecoms For Chinese software engineers, iPhone Apps are proving big business

Over 2 million iPhone users in China have downloaded applications from Apple’s App Store to look up English words, get traffic updates, and check ...

Obama Girl sets tongues wagging

Society A rival for the US president's wife?

The term ’15 seconds of fame’ was coined by Andy Warhol – in reference to how the modern media can make anyone famous, albeit briefly. In ...

Red Star Lin Dan

To the country’s legion of badminton fans, Lin Dan is better known as “Super Dan”. It’s a nickname strangely fitting for an athlete who is both ...

‘Don’t eat meat’

Entertainment The Chinese love meat. Can a vegetarian campaign succeed?

The Chinese have always had a pragmatically unsentimental attitude to animals. As the old saying goes, anything with four legs, except a table, can be ...

Who’s Hu Barefoot doctor to Shimao success

Xu Rongmao was born in 1950 in Fujian province. His father graduated from a medical college and his mother was an obstetrician. During the Cultural ...

A shot in the arm

Healthcare Swine flu is proving to be profitable for vaccine makers (and…

According to Chen Zhu, China’s health minister, cooking pork with star anise is a “very good option to deal with swine flu”. Although there is ...

Others Plans to plant more trees have mixed benefits

"Green is the new black,” proclaims China Forestry Holdings’ website. China’s third largest private tree plantation raised $200 million in its ...

China Consumer US toymaker reins in expectations on Barbie sales at Shanghai megastore

It had to happen. First there was Shanghai Baby – an internationally best-selling novel – and then there was Shanghai Barbie. Barbie, the iconic ...

Next year, up a gear?

Auto Industry Car industry hopes to maintain strong sales growth in 2010

Walk into most car showrooms in major Chinese cities these days, and you would be forgiven for forgetting that the global automobile industry is ...

Bad communication

Planet China Bridget Jones would not be impressed. The fictitious character – a…

Bridget Jones would not be impressed. The fictitious character – a famously ‘single’ thirtysomething – was also a successful career woman. But ...

Made for television

Cartoons Made for television

Aren’t most things made in China these days? It’s a comment (or lament, perhaps) heard frequently enough. So you might think it’s a little ...

The deer hunters

And Finally But in modern China it’s more about conservation than sport

Even to a devoted historian, Herbrand Russell – the 11th Duke of Bedford – would hardly count among the more remarkable figures of the 20th ...