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WiC 46 (Jan 22, 2010)

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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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...