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WiC 90 (Jan 7, 2011)

Zuck networks in China

Internet & Tech, Talking Point The Chinese block Facebook, but its founder covets access to huge…

First it was eBay, then Yahoo, and more recently Google. But will Skype be the next foreign internet firm to withdraw from China? In late December, ...

End of the Gilded Age?

Economy Big SOEs to hand over more of their $129 billion profits…

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.” That was the rather dispiriting insight from John D ...

Auto Industry Anti-congestion measures to hit car sales in Beijing

A new year often begins with a determination to rein in on the excesses of the month before, and Beijing’s bureaucrats seem to have identified car ...

Energy & Resources Chinese to build US wind farm

In 1887 Charles Brush did a revolutionary thing. He generated electricity for the people of Cleveland using the first automatically operated wind ...

Healthy business case

Healthcare GE sees a big market in selling equipment to China’s smaller hospitals

You can’t fight City Hall, goes the cliché – and after GE CEO Jeff Immelt famously despaired of making money in China last year, his company seems ...

Hard work ethics

Telecoms Are you a striver or a labourer, asks Huawei?

Andy Grove knows what makes a successful corporate culture. Avoid complacency; work hard; be dynamic; don’t ever stop for a second in the pursuit of ...

Brush Strokes Character of the year

The Chinese character zhang (涨), which means ‘rise’, has been voted “Character of the Year” for 2010. In an internet poll published ...

An Eastern Western

Entertainment Gunslinging movie to break box office records

One joke doing the rounds in China right now is that while the rich man can buy an Apple iPhone 4, the poor man can barely afford 4 apples. Such ...

Sport Southern island is now China’s top golf destination

Building a golf course in China is surprisingly hard. This is not due to any lack of construction skill or paucity of demand. The reason, as WiC has ...

China’s Niseko?

China Tourist Club Med wants you to ski at its new Chinese resort

Most people do not think of China as a skiing destination. That’s a perception the Chinese would like to change. China has looked at Hokkaido’s ...

Sasac’s new boss

Who’s Hu Wang Yong

Another engineer… Born in 1955 in Liaoning province, Wang Yong graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology. He may not be a ...

Different takeaways

China Ink What the Indian and Chinese press said about Wen Jiabao’s state…

From trust deficit… The Chinese press was full of praise for Premier Wen Jiabao’s three-day trip to India last month, with ...

The great land grab

Agriculture Why Zhejiang entrepreneurs are buying lots of foreign farmland

Otto von Bismarck liked to buy forests. The nineteenth century German leader proved a canny investor. Now, almost 113 years after the ...

Plucky pensioners

Planet China “At first, some government departments found these elderly people annoying,” says…

“At first, some government departments found these elderly people annoying,” says the head of Danjiang County’s Industrial and Commercial ...

World Bank launches debut dim sum

Cartoons World Bank launches debut dim sum

A new year and a new landmark on the renminbi’s road to internationalisation. In the highest profile offshore yuan bond to date, the World Bank ...

And Finally How much do China’s middle classes pay in tax?

"Let me tell you how it will be/There’s one for you, nineteen for me,” sang the Beatles in their 1966 song Taxman. Britain’s most iconic band ...