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WiC 93 (Jan 28, 2011)

“They suck us like vampires”

M&A, Talking Point A backlash grows against Chinese state companies buying Western firms

"A corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine ...

A case of athlete’s foot?

China Consumer Top Chinese sportswear maker Li Ning stumbles and sees stock drop…

Li Ning recently posted an ad on YouTube as part of its low-budget (but “edgy”) advertising campaign to sell more of its sportswear to US ...

Superman flies south

Shipping Singapore delighted to win Li Ka-shing’s southern China ports mandate

Where’s a decent superhero when you need one? That was one response to news that Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa will sell the majority ...

With a Chery on top

Auto Industry Chinese carmaker views IPO as key to global ambitions

It wasn’t quite the opening day that Chery’s marketing bosses were hoping for. Belying the name of the car he was driving – the Rely X5 – racer ...

Getting their slice

Agriculture Entrepreneurs cut middlemen from food chain

They’re known as the ‘Veggie Brothers’ and their exploits have become one of the most searched for items on China’s internet, according to ...

Economy Not all Chinese cities are growing. Yumen is worse off than…

After Mao’s Eighth Route army finally marched into Beijing in January 1949, the city’s new rulers were determined the capital would become a symbol ...

The Adam Smith of China?

Chinese Character Reform-minded economist causes controversy with People’s Daily article

Articles in state-owned People’s Daily often carry the weight of official policy. So it boded ill for noted economist Wu Jinglian when, in 2008, the ...

China’s diving queen

Red Star Guo Jingjing

Native of Hebei, Guo Jingjing, 29, began her diving career at the age of 6. Incredibly, that meant a late start on most of her peers, although she soon ...

Zhang Yimou requests Bale

Entertainment Batman star to make debut in a Chinese language movie

He’s played a pampered schoolboy in pre-Second World War Shanghai and a superhero in a bat suit from Gotham City. But can Christian Bale bridge both ...

Society Health club closures in Beijing

A generation ago, exercise in China meant an hour in the park. More recently, many locals have begun to embrace the fitness culture of their yuppie ...

Telecoms Little-known Chinese firm takes Latin American mobile market by storm

"Every six months the Chinese telecommunications market grows at a rate that equals Spain’s population.” That’s an eye-catching statistic from ...

Turnaround king

Who’s Hu Zhu Jimin

Zhu Jimin signed up to study mine construction at North East Technical College in Shenyang. Born in 1946, he graduated in the middle of the Cultural ...

Planet China For the man who has everything, a retailer in Wenzhou has…

For the man who has everything, a retailer in Wenzhou has a new gift idea. The National Business Daily reports that the recently opened Intime ...

Lang Lang strikes a chord

Cartoons Lang Lang strikes a chord

Performances from Lang Lang are not normally political, but his music at the White House’s banquet for Hu Jintao has had China’s internet community ...

And Finally UK captains of industry learn from Confucius

In his Analects, Confucius relegated business people to the very bottom of his social order, below artisans, farmers and scholars. As he put ...