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WiC 76 (Sep 3, 2010)

Agriculture, Talking Point Will Sinochem be Potash Corp’s white knight against BHP Billiton?

"When I first went to China in 1979, we were eating monkeys’ brains, crickets and sea urchins,” Bill Doyle told Bloomberg. “Today you go to China ...

Supermarket sweep

China Consumer Carrefour admits to mistakes in China strategy

When Carrefour conducted its latest market research on the Chinese market, it discovered a number that no one seemed to be able to explain. Although it ...

Red, not yellow, submarine

China and the World High-tech sub could unsettle the neighbours

The tradition of claiming territory by being the first to plant a flag on it has a long and dubious history. But the practice has not died out. A ...

You thought the M25 was bad

China Ink A 100-mile traffic jam last month saw drivers stuck for up…

Blame trucks, not cars... According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the main culprit is a steep increase in coal trucks. More than ...

Energy & Resources Aluminium boss must avoid losses this year

For eight years after it was established, the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) was a gleaming success story – an ascent crowned by its ...

Property Just how many Chinese flats are vacant?

Chinese statistics are notoriously unreliable. But a revelation from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) last week that there were problems with ...

Party is banned

Society Han Han loses publisher for radical magazine

While not exactly banned, Chinese publishers don’t seem to want anything to do with a popular new magazine. In issue 71 we profiled Han Han, ...

Marriage on ice

Sport Popular ice skating duo sell tickets to wedding

Before Chelsea Clinton finally married Marc Mezvinsky in July, the only thing that was known about the event was the date. In keeping with Chelsea’s ...

Rocking the boat

Society Photo raises storm on the internet

Holding Back the Body to Ask for a Price was voted the best news picture in this year’s Golden Lens Award, the leading event in Chinese ...

Entertainment China’s hottest TV drama is questioning the nation’s gender stereotypes

Traditional Confucian thinking was highly patriarchal. Having a woman in authority was said to be about as natural as “having a hen crow like a ...

China is innovating…

Internet & Tech The question just has to be reframed, says veteran fund manager…

In response to our Talking Point last week ‘Can China innovate?’, we received the response below from WiC reader, James Cheng, a fund manager with ...

Who’s Hu Gao Dekang

Gao Dekang was born in 1952 in the village of Shanjing in Jiangsu province. At the age of 24 he established a business, with assets consisting of eight ...

Explaining China’s crash

Aviation Why Henan Airlines accident could point to a dangerous trend

It is not a line-up that China’s air safety bosses will have wanted to be part of. But a major crash in Yichun in Heilongjiang province at the end of ...

questionable charges

Planet China The Chinese public has a jaundiced view of its medical profession,…

The Chinese public has a jaundiced view of its medical profession, including its tendency to charge for unnecessary procedures. But the Yangtze Evening ...

A revolutionary limo

And Finally Watch out Bentley, here comes Red Flag

For guests at the Red Capital Club, one of the quirkier excursions on offer is a tour of Beijing in Madame Mao’s car. Mao’s third wife (Jiang ...