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WiC 91 (Jan 14, 2011)

Economy, Talking Point All of Beijing’s policy guns are turned on defeating inflation

Last week we mentioned that the Chinese character zhang had been selected by the country’s netizens in an online poll as the most ...

Is China good for Africa?

China and the World Deborah Brautigam has spent 30 years studying this question. Her answer...

You may struggle to guess the identity of China’s first official aid project in sub-Saharan Africa. A road, you may think, or a bridge? Perhaps a ...

M&A EU to China: bail us out; don’t buy our companies

For Wieland Wagner, visiting 11 European countries in 14 days proved enlightening. Not because he had much to learn about Europe himself, but rather ...

Property Guo Chunping rues her 15 minutes of fame

According to China’s dominant internet search engine, the most popular phrase typed into its Baidu Knows service last year was: “What should I do ...

What’s in a name

China Consumer What Shang Xia, Baojun and Denizen say about China branding strategies

Many conversations about the world’s most populous economy are still likely to include references to the phrase ‘Made in China’, when discussing ...

Daylight robbery

Banking & Finance Fraud at Shandong bank sparks concerns

In 2007, the Agricultural Bank of China suffered what has to be one of the more foolhardy bank heists. Two bank managers walked out with nearly $7 ...

Porridge-makers, rejoice

Fast Food Laba rice porridge

Laba rice porridge is usually made of glutinous rice, red beans, millet, Chinese sorghum, peas and dried lotus seeds. Other ingredients like dates, ...

Marriage à la mode

Entertainment Popular sequel gets simultaneous release in North American cinemas

One of the best lines in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are The One 2 comes when Qin Fen, the middle-aged retiree, proposes to Xiaoxiao, the ...

Keep taking the tablets

Internet & Tech Lenovo goes to Las Vegas and unveils its rival to the…

China’s infatuation with Apple’s iPad is making villains of some rather unlikely characters. The tablet computer was released in China in ...

Society High-growth China’s seedy underbelly gets exposed

It all started with a ruse. Reporters from the Xinjiang Metropolis Daily newspaper told Li Xinglin, owner of the Jiaersi Green Construction Material ...

The real package?

China Consumer Tetra Pak cries foul on China challenger

There’s a saying that great things come in small packages (often favoured by those of smaller stature, admittedly). But Greatview Aseptic Packaging ...

Founder of Septwolves

Who’s Hu Zhou Shaoxiong

Zhou Shaoxiong was born in 1965, in Quanzhou, Fujian province. He quit his job at a bookstore, considered a “golden rice bowl” at the time, to go ...

Society Two migrant workers sing their way to stardom

Discovered by a marketing executive browsing on YouTube in 2007, Justin Bieber is now America’s leading internet sensation. Earlier this month, ...

Planet China Ever since New York titans vied to build the tallest building,…

Ever since New York titans vied to build the tallest building, skyscrapers have come to embody ego. In more recent times they’ve also been an ...

Cartoons Bottle shock

In Benjamin Wallace’s Billionaire’s Vinegar, the author tells the tale of a highly contentious bottle of 1787 Lafite, reputed to have once been ...

And Finally The government earns a packet from cigarettes

It’s rarely a good idea to ask an industry to police itself, especially when billions of dollars are on the line. Just take a look at China’s ...