For 25-year-old Wang, it was her second consecutive Olympic doubles gold.
As we were finishing our 2012 list, one of our fashion picks from last year, Alexander Wang, 29, made headlines when he was tapped by French luxury conglomerate PPR to become the creative director of storied fashion house Balenciaga.
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"That day when we saw the pollution, my son said let's not do fireworks this year in Beijing, " said Wang Yufeng, a 36-year-old teacher.
Last year senior Chi-An Wang spent a semester helping it design a new triathlon shoe.
"There's no sense of safety here, " said a 24-year-old worker surnamed Wang, who has been with Foxconn for two years.
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Plus Wang, a 24-year-old architect, is planning a joint exhibition of works by architects and artists.
As everyone knows by now, Alexander Wang, the 28-year-old wunderkind of the fashion world, was named creative director of the renowned fashion house Balenciaga.
Chinese architect Wang Shu won the prize last year - the first Chinese citizen to do so.
Wang Yulan, a 56-year old retiree, moved into her new city-built apartment in a 33-floor Chongqing tower three months ago and immediately found a broken cupboard hinge, leak stains on both sides of her short foyer and badly misaligned window sills.
"Our profile here is dramatically increasing, " says Wang, Vobile's 40-year-old founder.
"The timing of Chinese New Year played a very important role, " said Tao Wang, an economist with UBS in Hong Kong.
Mr. Wang pointed to a CIC restructuring late last year that included the formation of its CIC International unit, which focuses on overseas investments.
For Wang, the loss means the 29-year-old retires from the sport without winning another gold to add to her collection of four over three Olympics.
Wang Yixiong, a twenty-three-year-old physicist originally from Henan Province, was on his third visit to town, and this time he had brought a blushing economics student named Chen Si.
Last year, Amazon's head of operations in China, Wang Hanhua, stepped down after seven years with the company.
Mr. Wang launched a "Happy Guangdong" campaign this year, pledging to focus on improving living standards while slowing GDP growth in the province of 104 million people that pioneered China's economic reforms and has long been seen as a bellwether of the country's future.
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Answering the federal tax appeal of Wang--who served eight months of a three-year sentence--the feds cite a line of cases denying similar deductions by embezzlers.
Wang, 63, launched her label in 1990, a year after her own wedding, with a prestigious Madison Avenue address on New York City's Upper East Side.
Manager Wang Linbo says sales have been good since the store opened a year ago.
With notable exceptions like Wang Jianlin, big property developers in China have had a rough year as the government has moved to curb speculation.
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Wang added that out of the 120 million units to be sold this year, half of them will be customized by China Mobile -- presumably so that it can choose its own bloatware, right?
Mr Wang's rethink was triggered by a spate of 200-odd strikes last year in the Pearl River delta that began in May with workers downing tools at a Honda car-parts factory in Foshan, near Guangzhou.
Our criteria include accomplishments in the latest year, which for a troubled player like electronics giant HTC means that a prominent chairman, Cher Wang, drops from the list.
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That said, Wang also announced that China Mobile aims to sell twice as many TD-SCDMA devices this year, with smartphones expected to take up over 80 percent of that segment -- hardly a challenge considering they already reached 94.4 percent in the last quarter.
In his statement, which was repeated by the state-run Xinhua news agency, Mr. Wang said Mr. Buffett would sing a song and play guitar in the online version of this year's Spring Festival gala.
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