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WiC 77 (Sep 10, 2010)

Economy, Talking Point Chongqing’s ambitious growth plans have huge ramifications

"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” That was Mark ...

Internet & Tech Lenovo’s gaming console to take on the Wii

It started with a game called Pong – released by Atari in 1972. Since then video games have established themselves as an important form of mainstream ...

Energy & Resources BP battered by press, but PetroChina spared

"Not completely our fault’ is the four word summary of the report released by BP on Wednesday into the Gulf of Mexico disaster. It’s only the ...

Environment Why Liao River residents hope for a paperless economy

Not worth the parchment that it’s written on? That is one response to the paper industry’s promise to stop polluting its surroundings, if the ...

Telecoms Beijing starts mobile phone crackdown

Say you are a Chinese citizen wishing to send an anonymous message. What do you do? Invisible-ink notes are unreliable and carrier pigeons out of ...

Society A dictionary of which Dr Johnson would approve

The Reverend Stephen Weston was a translator extraordinaire. In the early nineteenth century, he played a significant role in cracking the Rosetta ...

Who’s Hu Yao Junliang

Another of China’s current business tycoons born into an impoverished background – this time in Shanxi province in 1952 – Yao Junliang worked as ...

Sport A cash boost for China Open

"I have been asked to announce that Baron von Cramm pulled a muscle in his thigh in his first game, and he much regrets that he was not able to play ...

Entertainment It’s the most expensive Chinese TV show ever, but viewers are…

A Chinese Redologist is not, as you might guess, an expert on the country’s ruling Communist Party. Rather, it is someone who spends their ...

China Ink Hu Jintao travelled to Shenzhen this week to celebrate 30 years…

Ahead of the rest? It was a time for celebration in the Chinese press, which quoted liberally from a speech given by Hu Jintao at ...

Planet China Painting over the cracks is a familiar expression, but in China…

Painting over the cracks is a familiar expression, but in China it is being taken literally. Xinhua News Agency reports that the local government in ...

And Finally Non-Italian speaking farmer mimics Big Pav on TV talent show

Long before we all had the pleasure of meeting Susan Boyle, there was Paul Potts. The dentally-challenged cellphone salesman walked onto the stage of ...