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WiC 61 (May 21, 2010)

The canary in the coalmine…

Society, Talking Point Kindergarten killings – blamed on growing inequality – unnerve China

Last week a 48 year-old man walked into a kindergarten in Shaanxi province and hacked seven children to death with a meat cleaver. He then committed ...

Suicide factory

Internet & Tech Major electronics manufacturer hit by spate of staff fatalities

Lu Xin had worked at Foxconn for less than a year. But he already felt his ambitions for a musical career were slipping away. Although he had ...

Barbarians at the gate

Banking & Finance Why China’s private equity industry is as “chaotic as Shenzhen”

As chaotic as when Shenzhen first opened up to economic reform,” was how one government official explained it to CBN Weekly. “Everyone is busy ...

Banking & Finance ChiNext companies are dishing out big dividends

Last month, Shanghai Bestway released ambitious investment plans to expand into yacht manufacturing. But a few days before it announced its grand ...

Telecoms China Mobile hopes to dominate e-book market

"It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” was Steve Jobs early response to the launch of ...

Loved in Lagos?

Energy & Resources Oil-for-infrastructure deal may signal new Chinese charm offensive

Goodluck Jonathan sounds like an appropriate name for the current Nigerian president, in view of the fate of most of his predecessors. At last count, ...

Stay off the sausages

Sport Illegal pork gets judo heavyweight two-year ban

She won a gold at the Beijing Olympics, as well as three world championship titles in a row. But Tong Wen – judo champion in the 78kg-plus weight ...

Wang opens Cannes of worms

Entertainment Director trashes Chinese film industry; starlet wows on Riviera’s red carpet

Wang Xiaoshuai is at it again. Last year the director of Shanghai Dreams (and a staunch critic of China’s movie industry) called local films ...

Who’s Hu King of bras

Zhang Rongming was born in 1962 in Jiangsu province. He studied metallurgy and on graduation his first business foray involved coated blades, which ...

Economy Government woos private investment

The title of Ian Bremmer’s new book, The End of the Free Market, seems to make the point clearly enough. His prediction: that companies from ...

Planet China There are many motives for getting divorced, but in Li Guoliang’s…

There are many motives for getting divorced, but in Li Guoliang’s case they had nothing to do with an unhappy matrimonial state. No, the 42 year-old ...

Future problems

Cartoons Future problems

China has dithered over launching a futures market for many years. But in spite of painstakingly researching the subject (and proceeding with ...

And Finally Nudity as art, and as a metaphor for officials on the…

I use nude push-ups to record his tory” is how Ou Zhihang, a television fashion show presenter, explained it to the Beijing Youth Weekend earlier ...