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WiC 92 (Jan 21, 2011)

Ready for take-off?

Aviation China’s fourth biggest airline group taxis towards a Hong Kong listing

The new hit movie If You Are the One 2 featured top actress Shu Qui as a flight attendant; and in case you couldn’t guess the airline’s ...

Sun sees clouds ahead

Economy China strategist outlines “balancing act” Beijing’s policymakers face

With China’s Year of the Rabbit set to start in less than a fortnight it’s time to speculate on whether the new year will be a good one. Shanghai ...

China and the World, Talking Point Will Chinese leader’s trip to America reboot the world’s key relationship?

Refer in the same sentence to superpower relations and the pushing of buttons, and the image is likely to be a bleak one – of nuclear ...

A new era of money politics

Banking & Finance Key announcements made on renminbi ahead of Hu’s US trip

"A product of the past” was the headline of the week, and its author Hu Jintao wasn’t referring to the onset of what will be the final months of ...

The Rockford files

Energy & Resources Shock Horror! Chinese firm creates American jobs

The government of Massachusetts would rather not mention China this week. The US state gave $43 million in assistance to Evergreen Solar, to help it ...

Environment Hong Kong blue chip has a ‘hot air’ solution to save…

'The greenest brick is the one that’s already in the wall’, is an argument put forward by many an environmentalist. And business leaders are ...

Time to can them

China Consumer Why Pepsi has bought out Chinese JV partner

The first time Indra Nooyi, the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, went to China two years ago she stayed for 12 days. Before the trip ...

Founder of Dangdang

Who’s Hu Yu Yu

Born in Chongqing in 1965, Yu Yu moved to Beijing at an early age. After graduating with an English degree from the Beijing Foreign Languages ...

The controversial model

Red Star Su Zizi

Raised by her grandparents and her single-mother, Su Zizi grew up in the city of Yichang, Hubei. During her first year at Renmin University in Beijing, ...

Without any need for drama

Internet & Tech Finally, a US television giant breaks into China...

A US media giant is racing to capture China’s booming internet market. No, we are not talking about News Corp, the media company controlled by ...

He owes it all to Sun Tzu

M&A How highest-valued Chinese pharma firm grew through 13 acquisitions

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says to win a battle, it is important to keep the costs of a victory as low as possible. Ideally one should attain ...

Sport Meet China’s new world chess champion

In the winner-takes-all days of US-Soviet rivalry, true dominance wasn’t expressed merely in terms of warheads, but through something much more ...

Society Do Chinese mothers nurture smarter kids?

Until two weeks ago, Amy Chua was best known as a Yale law professor with a focus on globalisation. Then her essay ‘Why Chinese Mothers Are ...

Society Man told he faced life in prison for a traffic offence

Almost four years ago to the day, Timothy Brady gained the dubious honour of being the UK’s foremost speed merchant. He was caught by police driving ...

Energy & Resources Which Chinese firms accompanied Hu to the US?

The corporate team tagging along with Hu Jintao on his trip to the US features a few familiar names, particularly for regular WiC readers. Foremost are ...

Planet China When it comes to repositories of data on China, Baidu must…

When it comes to repositories of data on China, Baidu must rank second only to the government. The country’s dominant internet search engine has a ...

Apple’s 1.3 billion new fans

Cartoons Apple’s 1.3 billion new fans

Is Apple the fastest growing US company in China? This week’s record first quarter earnings suggest it’s possible. CFO Peter Oppenheimer told ...

And Finally Government official on bestseller list

"The reader gets a sense of both the importance of the mission of politics and the ridiculousness of much of its mechanics.” So goes the review by ...