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WiC 46 (Jan 22, 2010)
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Realty bites
Property, Talking Point Time to panic about China’s overheating property market?

They start queueing early to buy their houses in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province. Many of the 1,000-strong throng had been there for the ...

Blocked pipes
Economy Details in latest trade case lose sight of the bigger picture

Seamless steel pipe doesn’t stand out as the most riveting of topics. Not that it doesn’t serve a useful purpose, as a means of carrying ...

Under development
Banking & Finance CDB’s road from policy bank to commercial entity

Almost a hundred years ago the Qing Dynasty collapsed and hereditary rule was supposedly consigned to the dustbin of Chinese history. But fast ...

Zhang’s welfare state
Chinese Character For migrant workers, the boss of Quanshun is a hero

If you’re in trouble or hurt or in need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones,” wrote John Steinbeck, ...

Marshalling the sun
Energy & Resources Yingli’s boss marries environmentalism with Red Army battle tactics

At the height of the global recession a small group of men went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Red Army in the remote Jinggang Mountains. ...

Mixing it up
Rail & Infrastructure Two cement giants battle for supremacy

If steel constitutes the bones of the industrial economy, then cement is surely the body tissue. And as the Chinese economy continues to bulk up, so ...

Paranoid about Android
Telecoms Google spat spills over into handset sales

News that Google is considering pulling out of China has dominated media headlines for most of the last week. But much of the focus has been on the ...

Liang Wengen
Who’s Hu Cementing his reputation

Getting started Liang Wengen was born in 1956 in rural Hunan. In 1983 he graduated with an engineering degree and founded Lianyuan ...

An oily relationship
China and the World Why Beijing resists the West’s attempts to up sanctions on Iran

No one was expecting war to break out between Iran and China. But it has this month - albeit in cyberspace. The internet seems to be ripe with ...

Song Zuying
Red Star Song Zuying

Song Zuying is China’s leading female soprano. Now 43, she was born in Hunan and is ethnically Miao, one of China’s official minority peoples. ...

Packs a punch
Entertainment Kung fu goes 3D

When most Westerners think of Chinese cinema they are less likely to picture Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum or Chen Kaige’s Farewell My ...

Liquid gold
Society Whisky’s China boom

The number ‘4’ is thought to be unlucky by many Chinese, as it sounds similar to the word for ‘death’. Doubling it up is even more unfortunate ...

Yao’s Shanghai slamdunk
Sport NBA star buys struggling Chinese basketball team. What’s his gameplan?

"Boss Yao" is back in town. That’s the spin on news that 7ft 6in Houston Rocket’s center Yao Ming is hanging out in his native Shanghai for the ...

Rays of hope
Planet China No doubt you’ve heard of cases of intellectual property theft in…

No doubt you’ve heard of cases of intellectual property theft in China. But would it surprise you that the nation is taking some pioneering steps in ...

Cameron hits another iceberg
Cartoons Cameron hits another iceberg

What do James Cameron’s Titanic and Avatar have in common? They were both sunk (though not without trace): one in the Atlantic and the other by ...

Tomb raider
And Finally National controversy over archaeological find

On November 26 an archaeologist made a ‘tiny breach in the top left hand corner of the doorway’. Asked if he saw anything, he replied “Yes, I ...

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