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WiC 95 (Feb 18, 2011)
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Gold rush
Energy & Resources, Talking Point Worried by inflation, Chinese discover the lure of gold

Just like the Indian marriage season – late summer and autumn – the Chinese New Year typically involves a lot of gold purchases. Making ...

Off the rails
Rail & Infrastructure Train boss ousted for corruption

On August 8, 1963 a postal train was held up at a railway bridge in Ledburn in England. The heist soon gained fame as The Great Train Robbery. Some of ...

Bitter harvest
Economy Fears of failed Chinese wheat crop are driving world grain prices…

Chinese farmers produce almost all of their wheat between autumn and spring, with a harvest in June. The crop needs rain in the autumn, snow cover ...

Drug addicts
Healthcare China’s antibiotics binge is a danger to us all

Anne Sheafe Miller made history in 1942, when she became the first person on record to be curedwith penicillin (surviving a high fever brought about by ...

Sore about ore
Energy & Resources China’s iron and steel association capitulates on pricing

Diligent readers of WiC might be wondering why we haven’t mentioned CISA for several months or its increasingly stuttering efforts to negotiate down ...

Avon (not) calling
China Consumer Why the cosmetics giant has stumbled in the Chinese market

Fancy smearing mashed insect guts on your lips? If the red dye in your lipstick is ‘carmine red’ (or if you’ve kissed someone wearing it), then ...

Cost of loving
Entertainment Big profits as Chinese embrace Valentine’s Day

Mixing Mao with romantic entertainment does not sound like the most promising collaboration. But a film released on Valentine’s Day has managed to ...

It’s a weibo world
Society Not heard of it? China’s latest online phenomenon...

Peng Wenle is officially China’s most famous six-year-old. The child – kidnapped in Shenzhen three years ago – became headline news last week ...

Exit the expert
Chinese Character Chinese concur: Huntsman has proven America’s best ambassador to China

"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer” – says mafia-don Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, The Godfather Part ...

No Nile fever
China and the World How Chinese media covered events in Cairo

Amid the chaos in Cairo’s Tahrir Square this month, keen-eyed observers may have spotted a couple of more unusual requests for Mubarak’s ...

Microwave meals
Planet China British carmaker Bentley is prepared to go the extra mile in…

British carmaker Bentley is prepared to go the extra mile in securing sales from China’s new rich, reports the South China Morning Post. One Chinese ...

Let the train take the strain…
Cartoons Let the train take the strain…

Colombian megastar Shakira once asked “the CIA wanna watch us?” The line from her hit song Hips Don’t Lie may prove remarkably prescient if a ...

Milking it
And Finally Why Macau saw stocks of baby powder run out

The residents of Macau are normally keen on mainland Chinese tourists. The local economy has prospered from the wallets of Chinese gamblers, virtually ...

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