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WiC 70 (Jul 23, 2010)
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Tango and cash
Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point Railway deal cements Beijing’s ties to Buenos Aires

"For a few days, war with Britain seemed possible, and even imminent,” wrote Winston Churchill. The surprise is that the war in question was set to ...

Steely determination
Energy & Resources Is consolidation in the steel industry picking up speed?

Call it a hostile takeover. Last year, violence broke out when privately-owned Beijing Jianlong Heavy Industry Group decided to buy a state-owned ...

Route canal fails
Economy Unusually, China botches a major infrastructure project

When it comes to building major public works at improbable speed, China has history. For instance, it took Emperor Yang Guang’s engineers (and ...

Playing to win
China Consumer French sports goods retailer attracts shoppers with in-store experience

Welcome to Decathlon, where the atmosphere is more sports ground than retail store. On any given day, teenagers are seen shooting hoops at the ...

Export drive
Auto Industry Failed in Europe, try India

When Germany’s largest auto club, the ADAC, released the results of its safety test of a Brilliance BS4 Sedan last year, the results couldn’t have ...

China’s very own BP?
Environment Zijin’s spill earns it comparisons with British oil firm and Gulf…

It’s a title no Chinese company wants to hold. A year or two ago, things would have been different. But since the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf ...

Two-way traffic
Auto Industry America’s GM and ZAP in Chinese M&A transactions

Auto industry history was made earlier this month when ZAP, a US electric car company, announced that it had signed an agreement to purchase a majority ...

Feeding frenzy
Who’s Hu Liu Hanyuan

Liu Hanyuan was born in Sichuan province in 1964, where he graduated from the Fisheries Vocational School. Today, he’s worth Rmb7 billion but his ...

Diary of a factory girl
Others The inside story on life on a Shenzhen factory line

Singapore-based student Sophia Cheng interned at WiC this summer. Perhaps more unusually, the 16 year-old also spent some of her school holiday ...

London calling
China and the World Will China visa issue sour relations with UK?

The latest Chinese investment in London isn’t being made by a Chinese, but a Russian. A new chain of restaurants – serving healthy, ...

Fosun’s French connection
China Tourist Club Med gets a Chinese investor and potentially a lot of…

You may not have heard of Fosun Group. It’s more likely that you’re familiar with Club Med, the French travel group that pioneered the ...

China’s directors quake
Entertainment New WTO ruling means Hollywood gains unrestricted access to China

The point of a disaster film is often the spectacle: the Titanic being lifted vertically out of the ocean and snapping in half before sinking into ...

Leggy legend
Society Chinese fans can’t forget the World Cup octopus

Post-World Cup, and Paul the Octopus has gone into retirement. And he goes out on a predictive high note: apparently, octopus life expectancy is four ...

Motoring along
Society Story of the man who brought luxury to China

Tang Qili still remembers wearing a tatty T-shirt and jeans to work 10 years ago. But these days looking smart has become part of his job. Tang is the ...

Swiss Wings
Fast Food A Hong Kong specialty

Swiss Wings, a Hong Kong specialty, are chicken wings cooked in a sweet soy sauce-flavoured marinade. The sauce recipe varies but the basic ingredients ...

Very civilised
Planet China There can’t be many places in the world that have a…

There can’t be many places in the world that have a Civilisation Office, but the city of Shijiazhuang boasts one. The capital of Hebei province ...

Expensive appetite
And Finally Bidder pays $295,000 to lunch with Shanghai tycoon

A few years ago the editor of WiC had dinner with Shi Yuzhu on Lamma Island. The meal took place in a very basic seafood restaurant – so modest in ...

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