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WiC 45 (Jan 15, 2010)

Talking Point Bigger than Berkshire Hathaway, many still struggle to understand Sasac

A Google search on “Warren Buffett’s investment strategy” returns at least 260,000 page results. That seems rather a lot for a man who ...

China Ink Google’s threat to pull out of China causes a blizzard of…

Why would Google abandon China? Google is fed up with being attacked by cyber hackers, reports the Wall Street Journal, and may ...

Economy Telecoms scandal shows how Beijing catches corrupt state executives

Imagine a situation in which – by government diktat – Richard Branson was sent to run British Airways, and Michael O’Leary was told to take over ...

Environment Eco light bulb has poisonous downside

Qin Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor, united the country by force and guile. But he dreamed of eternal rule, so his doctors prescribed him ...

Internet & Tech Crackdown on video-sharing websites riles 250 million users

"Goodbye American Idol. Goodbye Simon [Cowell], I’ll miss your snarky comments,” Xiao Yu, an ardent fan of the show, laments. That’s because ...

Energy & Resources The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and now a multi-billion dollar…

Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country,” declared Lenin in 1920. It’s not clear if he was speaking literally or ...

Auto Industry Geely readies team to manage Volvo

My dream is to make the safest, most environmentally-friendly and most energy-efficient cars and sell China-made cars to the world.” It’s clear ...

Who’s Hu The man behind the country's largest white-goods maker

Getting started He Xiangjian was born in 1942 in Shunde in Guangdong – an area now well known for its electrical appliance ...

Banking & Finance Futures contracts to launch

Derivatives, futures, short selling. In the West, these are terms associated with the highly complex financial instruments that nearly brought the ...

Banking & Finance The nation’s top oil company diversifies – into banking!

For a brief period two years ago, Porsche lost the appearance of a carmaker and began to look a lot more like an institutional investor. In an attempt ...

Investor Q&A The boss of commodities firm Noble discusses partnership with CIC

Richard Elman’s office in Hong Kong is a long way from the manager’s dugout at Eastlands. But they do have something in common. For while ...

Red Star Ding Junhui

Ding Junhui, 22, started playing snooker at the age of 9 with his father at local clubs. He was soon beating all-comers, so his father took Ding to ...

Society Avatar’s really about China

Millions of Chinese are familiar with James Cameron’s Titanic, which until recently held the number one spot in ticket receipts. So perhaps ...

Society Big giver from China

A century ago, a Yale-graduate Edward Hicks Hume came to China and founded the Yale Hospital, the College of Yale-in-China in Changsha, and Yali Middle ...

Sport Can American Football follow in the NBA’s successful footsteps?

They are amongst the most famous four words ever uttered by a wide receiver. Almost everyone remembers Rod Tidwell’s declamation: “Show ME the ...

Planet China “Construction of the parking lot is in the final stages” announces…

“Construction of the parking lot is in the final stages” announces the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping mall in Shijiazhuang. But as the Hebei Youth ...

Cartoons Take it or leave it…

Most things seem to have gone China’s way in the past year. One exception is the failure to win a war of attrition with the world’s iron ore ...

And Finally New movie catches flak from sage’s descendants

Study the past”, Confucius said, “if you would define the future.” But moviegoers now have further opportunity to study Confucius himself, in ...