English > Centrury Weekly >Issue 390
| Editorial |
- Deposed Officials and a Better Comeback Trail
- The public is rightly confused when disciplined and ousted government officials are appointed to new positions later
| Economist |
- Andy Xie: Greece's Long, Slippery Slope to Default
- Borrowed money inside the euro zone gave Greeks a decent living standard, but they've been living on borrowed time
| Issue 10 of 2010 |
Castles in the Air?
Pressured by surging housing prices and public frustration over home affordability, especially in urban areas, the Chinese government is now counting on construction of subsidized housing units to relieve the nation's housing dilemma.
- Yum! Bets on China Growth – And Wins
- The Yum! fast-food chain is opening KFC restaurants at a furious pace far beyond China's major cities
- China Mobile Dials Up a Shanghai Bank Stake
- China Mobile's plan to buy 20 percent of a bank is getting warm nods from analysts but cool reactions from some regulators
- Slow Death for China's Copyright Controversy
- A WTO ruling targeting China's copyright protection system sounded the death knell for a long-criticized legal loophole
- Diary Smokes Out Tobacco Officialdom's Secrets
- The alleged diary of a Guangxi government official titillated web browsers while describing a seedy side of officialdom
- Planning Docket Weighs Reforms, Transition
- Plotting China's course for the next five years is proving difficult given the challenges of economic and social change
- No Easy Fix after Decades of Droughts in Yunnan
- Like sunken wrecks in a dry riverbed, the province's latest drought has exposed serious flaws in a leaky, strained water supply system
- Regulatory Ping Pong for Ping An's Bank Deal
- Are regulators reviewing Ping An's plan to buy a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank playing games?
- Resume Gradual Adjustment of the Yuan
- It's in China's best interest to gradually appreciate the yuan and reject calls for a major, one-time revaluation
