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WiC 89 (Dec 17, 2010)

A transformational decade

Others, Talking Point Over the past 10 years the big winners have been Apple…

There was the roaring twenties – an era that conjures images of flapper girls and the Great Gatsby. Then came another memorably named decade, the ...

Economy You can’t understand China unless you understand its provinces

There are countless books offering to explain China to outsiders. But few will have involved the grunt work of Tom Carter, who spent two years on the ...

What’s Facebook?

Internet & Tech Mark Zuckerberg’s Chinese rival is RenRen

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is getting ready for his trip to China. He has been taking Mandarin lessons and studying Chinese history. ...

China Consumer Master Kong in battle with Carrefour

America has the hamburger, Italy the pizza. But what about China’s national dish? In a country of rather refined culinary history, the candidates are ...

Not such a breeze

Energy & Resources Huaneng pulls its wind power IPO

Ever since Sun Tzu wrote his Art of War, Chinese policymakers have tended to think of life as a series of military campaigns. So when China ...

A beautiful buy?

China Consumer Top global perfume maker acquires Chinese skincare brand

Looking good does not come cheap. Just ask Coty, the self-proclaimed “world’s largest fragance company”. Last month the New York-based firm ...

A land of immigrants

Society China faces immigration issue

As Western policymakers keep a wary eye on unemployment rates into 2011, unskilled factory workers in China’s industrial heartland are being offered ...

China’s drug lords

Healthcare Foreign pharmaceutical firms gain a victory in critical Shanghai market

Big pharma’s growing presence in China is proving to be a bitter pill for local medicine-makers. Concern is rising among the fragmented incumbents ...

Economy Revealing comments from Chinese central banker

Forget tasting their own medicine: Beijing’s top state banker thinks Western policymakers need to show more respect for Chinese alternatives. Zhou ...

A whiff of garlic

Economy Speculating on food prices

Garlic may well keep the vampires at bay but it seems to have attracted more than its fair share of speculators in China this year. Certainly enough ...

Pick of the crop

Who’s Hu Zhou Furen

Born in 1951, Zhou Furen started out as the production captain of his hometown, Xiyang Village in Liaoning province. He was an early success: local ...

China and the World What WikiLeaks has revealed about China

"Why not give the peace prize to Julian Assange?” was the headline in the Beijing Daily last week, in a thinly disguised dig at events that day in ...

The river runs deep

Shipping Why Maersk is so excited by the Yangtze River’s opportunities

The year 1858 was a particularly humiliating one for Chinese officials. It marked the mid-point of the second ‘Opium War’, and victorious Western ...

Top of the class

Society Shanghai students ace world ranking

Less time spent on Karl Marx, and top marks seems to be the result. One interpretation, perhaps, of the recent OECD survey that revealed teenagers ...

The latest models

Entertainment From Milan to Paris, Chinese models are making their mark

The first time Liu Wen walked down the runway of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, she wore a high-tech bikini (you heard it here first in WiC). ...

Selling the Chongqing story

Banking & Finance A little-known bank from China’s biggest city IPOs in Hong Kong

It’s a bank you’ve never heard of and it’s listing at a time when Chinese policymakers – spooked by a 5.1% inflation rate in November – could ...

Lust in translation

Planet China Christmas is a time for children and what better gift than…

Christmas is a time for children and what better gift than a book of fairy tales? Not in China, it turns out. China Friendship Publishing has just ...

Lobster’s off the menu

Cartoons Lobster’s off the menu

Horatio Nelson once gave his navy the order ‘England expects each man to do his duty’. In China, they want every man (and woman) to pay duty. In ...

An endangered Heath

And Finally Chinese might buy former British leader’s Salisbury home

During the 2008 global financial crisis, China was frequently asked to ‘rescue’ ailing American banks from failure; a Chinese firm ‘saved’ ...