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WiC 87 (Nov 26, 2010)

Price caps on the menu?

Economy, Talking Point Local media says ‘shadow’ price controls may already be underway in…

In his new memoir Decision Points, George W Bush recalls asking Hu Jintao what kept him awake at night. The Chinese president replied: ...

Sailing into the sunset?

Economy What does a maritime marriage say about Sasac’s M&A challenges?

"Without matchmakers on earth there will be no marriage, just as without clouds in the sky there will be no rain”. Such is Chinese legend on how ...

A Big Mac and drive, please

China Consumer McDonald’s wants Chinese to use its drive-throughs

The ‘golden arches’ first arrived in China in 1990, when McDonald’s opened a 500-seat restaurant in Shenzhen. Back then the brand epitomised ...

Telecoms China Mobile most at threat from new policy

An adage has it that if one billion Chinese were to jump at once, the world would spin off its axis. While this has no scientific basis – a different ...

Exploring the Amazon

Internet & Tech Why Peggy Yu is taking Dangdang public

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, should be glowing with pride. Dangdang, ...

Unhealthy profits

Healthcare China’s 92 million diabetics trigger surge in pharma firms’ insulin sales

The UN has managed to eradicate just one human illness so far: smallpox. In 1967, the WHO launched an intensive plan to eradicate the disease, then ...

Has Mickey got China’s goat?

Entertainment Media says nation’s most popular cartoon is now in Disney’s clutches

Disney is no stranger to China. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs debuted in Shanghai in the late 1930s. More recently The Lion King ...

Fortune’s mistress

Society Why extra-marital affairs just got harder

Almost 40% of Americans think the institution of marriage is “obsolete”. That was one of the findings of a survey published by TIME magazine last ...

Not the solution?

Energy & Resources Green power station stokes debate

'As goes China, so goes the world’ – that prophecy was given new urgency earlier this week when the country’s chief climate negotiator finally ...

Who’s Hu Gao Yanming

Gao Yanming was born in Shandong in 1957. After graduating from Dalian Ocean Shipping College, he was assigned to Hebei Provincial Administration of ...

Banking & Finance Why a Chinese rating agency is downgrading America’s debt

It takes a lot of courage to champion unpopular views. Those who do so are often held up for ridicule, but once in a while (with luck) public ...

Bedroom to boardroom?

Planet China Most job interviews include at least one awkward question. But according…

Most job interviews include at least one awkward question. But according to the West China Metropolis Daily, one particular query in Sichuan province ...

Unleash the blogs of war

Cartoons Unleash the blogs of war

It is a particularly Chinese sort of irony: this week a conference about getting round online censorship was cancelled – by the censors themselves. ...

And Finally Is China’s private jet market set for take-off?

Longtime readers of WiC will recall that China’s richest village is Huaxi (see issue 27), where per capita income is seven times the national ...