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BULLISH AS CHINA SHOPS 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
By Virginie Mangin In 2000, Yang Bin visited a gallery with a view to decorating his new house in Shanghai. He spent $120,000. "I just needed something on my walls," he recalls. Since then the tycoon,...
THAT'S SLOW BUSINESS 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
By Josh Sims Slowear seemed like the right summation of our philosophy, even if it's an odd word," says Roberto Compagno. The Venice-based clothing group, which evolved from a business his father crea...
MY BIG, FAST GREEK BARGAIN 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
By Robin Bowman Far away from the high-stakes political machinations in Athens, in the sleepy Greek islands a new breed of foreign buyer is casting aside fears of default and quietly snapping up slice...
WORN OUT BATTERIES 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
By Jonathan Margolis This spring, a 21-year-old tattoo artist from New Jersey, Dave Hurban, made the news by having four magnets implanted into the skin of his wrist. He did this so that he could 'wea...
BUSINESS GETS SQUEEZED 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Australia's Qantas is boosting the number of economy and premium economy seats on its Airbus A380s while shrinking its business-class cabins. The reconfigured superjumbos gain 39 economy seats, mostly...
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Harry Lime, the racketeer in the film The Third Man, was wrong: in 500 years Switzerland did not just produce the cuckoo clock, it produced a veil of bank secrecy so opaque that for years, internation...
THE WORD FROM... CAIRO 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
As Mohammed Morsi makes himself at home in the presidential palace, Egypt is once again in the throes of a political crisis. Summer should have brought some respite to Egyptians, who have teetered thr...
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
As every schoolchild who's studied photosynthesis knows, plants need light to survive. Yet in an experiment that seems to undermine a fundamental law of nature - and could turn agriculture on its head...
IPAD MUST-HAVE 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Think of your iPad as a sketchbook. Now, imagine picking up a pen and drawing on it. On the other side of the world, a colleague can see your work appearing onhis iPad. He grasps a similar pen and wit...
MARKETING FRENZY 1 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Alas, poor Facebook, we knew it well - a good half a billion of us, anyway. But since the PR fiasco that was its IPO, it looks as though the knives are out for Mark Zuckerberg's brainchild. Suddenly t...
