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Top News

Home work
Sandy Liang is the mother of a four-year-old girl living in Guangzhou. Like many others in the city, she gets up at seven in the morning and drives her daughter to her kindergarten before she gets to work. But that's where the similarity ends.

Epicurean epic


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News

Banking on stocks
China's banking regulator last Monday announced sanctions for irregularities by eight bank branches that loaned two State-owned companies money that was illicitly used for property and stock market investments.

Rogue branches

Quick look


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Energy/Environment

Green Harvest
This is the Chinese side of Central Asia - the vastness that is the Gobi Desert, which hardly ever bears crops.

Cashmere to coal

Cutting small mines

Growing in the wind


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VC/SME

Web way
SHENZHEN: It's Friday night and Nie Min typed www.chilema.cn into the address bar of her Internet browser.

Pay package

IN BRIEF (Page 4)


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Home page
Kang Lufa lives in a 60-square-meter home and office where he runs a website called K68.cn. Unlike other website professionals who usually work hard to attract more visitors, his everyday job is to see his website visitors work for him - from their own residence.

Business blend

Office on the go

Stella Song online


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Auto World

Auto Motives
Luxury brand cars are generally regarded as oil guzzlers.

New arrivals

Puncture plan


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Auto World

Right on Q
Makers of luxury sports utility vehicles (SUV) hum a similar promotional tune. "Our Chinese customers have an international mind-set and do not limit their experiences or their dreams. They are open to new experiences, new ways of thinking, have a passion for life, for design, and for driving."

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Charity China

Home maker
Having a house for the family is a dream deeply rooted in the Chinese mind. But as property prices across the country roar ahead, the dream becomes almost unreachable for low-income residents.

Milk of kindness

A poem from the heart

IN BRIEF (Page 8)


   

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Companies

Personal care
SHANGHAI: Like many places throughout the world, China's luxury hotel industry is dominated by global hotel giants like Accor and InterContinental.

Going global

Chinese companies at a glance


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Up Close

Healthy growth
Suzhou Kowloon Hospital doesn't look like a typical Chinese hospital.

Not care free