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WiC 67 (Jul 2, 2010)

History in the making

Cross Strait, Talking Point Consequences of free trade deal with Taiwan will be far-reaching

If you are looking for an illustration of the complexity of China’s relations with Taiwan, the air route between Xiamen and Taipei is a good place to ...

Chinese Character Terry Gou’s Chinese factories are giving him headaches

Terry Gou is not a man to lose his cool. When an earthquake interrupted proceedings at the annual meeting of Gou’s company, Hon Hai, a few years ago, ...

Using its noodle

China Consumer Is Master Kong China’s best-known brand?

Company folklore at Tingyi, Taiwan’s leading noodle maker, holds that the eureka moment came on a train steaming through Inner Mongolia. On that ...

Economy Why Fujian province and Taiwan share close ties

A trailblazer in early economic ties with the Taiwanese, Fujian province is hoping for a new era in cross-Strait relations. Only 150 kilometres apart, ...

Agriculture Taiwanese farmers set to profit from deal

Bankers and factory owners aren’t the only ones who stand to gain from the new trade agreement with China – there’s something in it for ...

Views from the summit

Rise of the RMB China returns from Toronto with a revalued currency. But no one…

Don’t mention the yuan… Our currency policy is our own business, and not a topic for discussion at international summits like ...

Society At least 300,000 Taiwanese live and work in Shanghai

Scott Lin represents a new breed of Taiwanese professional. Earlier this year, the 35 year-old lawyer relocated to Shanghai from Taipei to continue ...

A hornet’s nest?

Entertainment Taiwanese singer gets debut Hollywood role

In a role that introduced American audiences to Bruce Lee, Taiwanese heartthrob Jay Chou will play martial arts expert Kato in the upcoming big screen ...

The talk of China

Telecoms Chinese demand for smartphones has HTC quadrupling shipments

In most cases, being sued is a nasty business. But for HTC, legal action may not be all bad news. It’s recognition for the Taiwanese smartphone maker ...

Who’s Hu Xu Ming

Born in Zhuanghe in Liaoning province in 1971, Xu Ming became legal secretary to the city’s Foreign Economic and Trade Commission straight after ...

Reclaiming lost ground

Banking & Finance Bankers on both sides of the Strait have big expansion plans

Last year, Chinese banks provided Taiwanese companies with loans worth more than Rmb230 billion ($34 billion). Most of these companies are doing ...

Economy Seoul and Tokyo fear ECFA’s impact

Taiwan’s gain could be our loss. That, at least, is the view of Japan’s Nikkei newspaper. “A broad tariff-slashing agreement signed Tuesday ...

Sick as a parrot

Planet China In China the market for counterfeit sick notes has taken off…

In China the market for counterfeit sick notes has taken off dramatically, reports the Shanghai Daily. Football mad Chinese are paying as little as ...

And Finally Meet China’s most famous illusionist

"You are about to witness history in the making.” Not, as it turns out, a reference to the ECFA, free trade zones or the growing rapprochement ...