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WiC 74 (Aug 20, 2010)

Hebei’s M&A king

Energy & Resources, Talking Point A wave of consolidation is sweeping China’s steel sector – led…

In 1957 China’s steel industry produced a mere 5.3 million tonnes a year. This bothered Mao Zedong, who viewed steel output as a proxy for national ...

Rupert’s a China bear

Chinese Character Media mogul Murdoch scales back his Chinese investments

Rupert Murdoch is a man who usually gets what he wants. But for much of the last 20 years, one country in particular seems to have got the better of ...

Banking & Finance Regulator gets tough on trust-lending

When China’s banking regulator, the CBRC, undertook a major overhaul of the trust sector in 2007, it published a clear mission statement on its ...

Sayonara, salary man

China Ink China surpasses Japan as the world’s second largest economy

Raise a glass to China’s economic success? The Global Times allowed itself a small celebration, puffing that China's economy had ...

China Consumer Panasonic’s image in China takes a knock

Panasonic knows a few things about localisation in China. For example, fridges are often made with decorative doors because they serve as status ...

A touch of genius

Telecoms Shenzhen inventor just made the iPhone a lot cheaper

Steve Jobs is very mindful of what runs on his Apple products. Earlier this year he prevented the firm’s iPhones and iPads from running Adobe’s ...

Section When you think of monks, you imagine peaceful types, lost in…

When you think of monks, you imagine peaceful types, lost in a spirit of contemplation. So police were shocked to hear of a group in Baotou that had ...

Tang: well-versed

Who’s Hu Tang Shuangning

Born in 1954 in Liaoning province, Tang Shuangning graduated with a degree in economics, then worked at China Construction Bank for seven years. He ...

Economy Beijing orders factories shut; will provinces do so?

When it comes to creative acts of insubordination, it is hard to beat Horatio Nelson’s efforts at the Battle of Copenhagen. Ordered to retreat by ...

Energy & Resources Why the Chinese are shopping for uranium mines

For much of the last decade, the metal to own has been gold. Enjoying steady price increases until 2008, its value soared with the bursting of the ...

Society Wrongful arrest of reporter stirs nationwide outcry

When Jia Yu-kun becomes a magistrate in the town of Ying Tian-fu he is asked by the local usher if he has a copy of the ‘Mandarin’s Life ...

Sport Ex-gymnast claims negligence

What’s the statute of limitations for a sporting injury? Sang Lan, a former gymnast, is about to put it to the test. Back in 1998, Sang was ...

Society A career-ending outburst

Crosstalk is a traditional form of Chinese comedy – the like of which does not really exist in the West. Xiangsheng (to use its Chinese ...

The age of innocence

Entertainment Director Zhang Yimou’s quest to find the right girl

Like many men, Zhang Yimou has a problem with women. Finding one that he likes, that is. The award-winning Chinese director searched far and wide ...

Surrealism-on-Sea

And Finally Salvador Dali’s home to get a Made in China makeover

China’s property naysayers seem to think that the real estate market is divorced from commercial reality. But one particular project hitting the ...