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WiC 59 (May 7, 2011)
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Internet & Tech, Talking Point Baidu benefits from Google retreat but it’s more worried about Tencent

China’s leading search engine Baidu is named after a Song Dynasty poem by Xin Qiji about a man searching for love. Baidu – which means ‘hundreds ...

Come in Number 25…
Chinese Character Fame at last for Beijing’s robot-making farmer

Wu Number One walked with goose steps and Wu Number Three was designed to climb like Spiderman. Number Five could light cigarettes, and Number Eight ...

No accounting for success
Banking & Finance How good a year was 2009 for the insurance industry?

Anyone that looks regularly at the annual reports of Chinese companies will be used to seeing spectacular numbers, but the data coming out of the ...

All’s not well
Environment Why China’s water table is in such a perilous state

Next time you are travelling in north China, keep an eye out for cracks in your hotel room wall. Not that WiC wishes to create undue alarm – but your ...

Call my bluff
Energy & Resources Cracks appear in China’s iron ore boycott

Officials from China’s Iron and Steel Association – CISA – must have read the findings of the Henry Report with a deep sense of schadenfreude. ...

Austerity’s for Athens, not us
Economy Chinese leader calls for higher wages as means to boost consumption

Have we reached a tipping point where China’s workers finally become consumers? President Hu Jintao’s endorsement of higher wages last week heralds ...

Positive news
Healthcare One upshot of the Expo – an end to HIV ban

In March, Australian writer Robert Dessaix was scheduled to appear at the Shanghai International Literary Festival, but he was forced to pull out at ...

“We preferred Chirac”
China and the World Sarkozy jets to Beijing to repair Sino-French rift

There was a warm glow to Sino-French relations between 1995 and 2007. It was an era when Chinese state visits to Paris would usually result in a large ...

Li Li
Who’s Hu Meet China's richest couple (worth $6.2 billion)

Born in 1962, Li Li graduated in chemistry from Sichuan University and joined the Chengdu Meat Processing Factory. Pig of a ...

German air superiority
Aviation Why Air China aspires to be the nation’s answer to Lufthansa

Perhaps he’s keen on lederhosen. Or maybe a fan of Oktoberfest. Back in November last year, in an interview with Flight Global ...

San Bei Ji
Fast Food Three Cup Chicken

San Bei Ji, which means Three Cup Chicken, is a popular dish in Jiangxi. The dish is traditionally made with one cup each of three liquids: ...

Disqualified!
Sport Gymnast loses Olympic medal

The heavy ritual that goes with the Olympics can make it seem like a religious rite, but China’s secular leaders take it more seriously than ...

A new low
Society School stabbings horrify Chinese public

A new low School stabbings horrify Chinese public Two recent stabbing attacks on young children, one at a primary school in Guangdong and the next at ...

Red army
Sport Liverpool goes Chinese

There must have been a few diehard Liverpool fans who thought they’d had one lager too many before the game (and after the season they’ve had, who ...

Absolutely Lala
Entertainment New film pushes boundaries on product placement

Die Another Day, the 20th instalment in the James Bond franchise, may not have been the most memorable. It did, however, earn a place in the ...

My fellow Americans
Planet China Barack Obama’s half-brother lives in Shenzhen, and now he might have…

Barack Obama’s half-brother lives in Shenzhen, and now he might have a doppelganger in Wuhan too. Chutian Metropolis Daily reports that a 48 year-old ...

Cool summer predicted
Cartoons Cool summer predicted

The hot topic this week was about cooling off. For the third time this year, China’s central bank raised the reserve requirement. In a further move ...

The waiting’s over
And Finally The Expo starts – but so do the queues

There aren’t many occasions where you’d see Italian tenor Andrea Boccelli sharing the musical bill with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan. But the ...

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