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Tycoon sets London record

There was a new record for a house purchase in the UK last week in what The Times described as…
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

There was a new record for a house purchase in the UK last week in what The Times described as “the latest sign that London’s languid housing market has received a boost from Boris Johnson’s decisive election victory”. It will come as no ...

Dual destinations

Dual destinations
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

E-commerce has made life much easier for Chinese consumers but sometimes it can result in costly blunders too. That’s what happened to Liu Tianqi and his grandparents when they booked a ticket online for a bus journey from Guangdong last week. ...

A very retro look

Traditional Han Chinese clothing is getting trendy
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Su Yan is a twenty-something woman who likes to dress up in hanfu – traditional Han Chinese clothing. She is not alone. Millions of young Chinese now don these free flowing outfits – most as a hobby, some as their day-to-day ...

Keswick’s take on China

“The Chinese are very like Americans, or perhaps the way Americans were. They are natural capitalists and love being rich”
Jan 17, 2020 (WiC 479)

Tessa Keswick discusses her experiences of China with the Sunday Times. The 77 year-old wife of Jardine Matheson’s former taipan Henry Keswick added: “The Chinese look at the Americans and say ‘Why do you lecture us? You’ve got 2.3 ...

Nora Lum
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Who is she? Born in Queens, New York, to a Chinese father and Korean mother, Nora Lum, 31, began rapping when she was 13 and adopted the name Awkwafina for her on-stage persona a few years ...

Jumping the queue

Jumping the queue
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Long lines at airport security are a typical scene in the US, especially when first-time travellers are unprepared for the requests to take off their jacket and shoes and belts and so forth. In Beijing security screening at airports and train ...

Stripping off his jacket, he began what was soon being described as a ‘dad dance’ on Twitter. Video of Elon…
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Stripping off his jacket, he began what was soon being described as a ‘dad dance’ on Twitter. Video of Elon Musk’s none-too-funky moves were soon viewed more than four million times online. But the Tesla boss had much to dance about in ...

Bloomberg on China

“The Chinese, if they’re trying to control what people see, they don’t worry about us”
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

Bloomberg’s eponymous founder Michael Bloomberg tells the Financial Times that the media firm’s terminal business is “growing very rapidly” in China. “We’re a professional product. It isn’t the man in the street who reads our ...

Bruce Lee’s daughter battles a Chinese fast-food chain for using his image
Jan 10, 2020 (WiC 478)

The kung-fu master Bruce Lee did not like the idea of “crystallisation” – by which he meant entrenching stereotypes. Hence he gave his own martial art style an unconventional name: Jeet Kune Do, or the “the way of the ...

When the ship comes in

In 1711 the Scott family built their first shipyard in Greenock. For the next couple of centuries the Clyde area…
Dec 6, 2019 (WiC 477)

In 1711 the Scott family built their first shipyard in Greenock. For the next couple of centuries the Clyde area would be the epicentre of the global shipbuilding industry. The Scotsman newspaper has estimated that some 25,000 naval, merchant and ...

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