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Tourist row sours Sino-Swedish relations
Sep 21, 2018 (WiC 425)

Chinese travellers made 131 million trips overseas last year but what happens when something goes wrong and tourists or businesspeople get into trouble? The Zeng family’s experience in Sweden earlier this month shows how the lines between ...

China’s next fad: ultra luxury smartphones
Sep 14, 2018 (WiC 424)

The marketing of Vertu’s mobile handsets has always been less about the technology than their sheer expense, plus the “English craftsmanship” that goes into their finish. Its gold and gemstone inlaid Signature Cobra phone costs $360,000, ...

Why unfaithful husbands are losing sleep
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

In 2015 a group calling themselves the Impact Team hacked the user information of Ashley Madison, the Canadian website that facilitates extra-marital affairs. Million of account details were released to the public, leading to the break-up of ...

How to pull a sports marketing coup in China
Aug 31, 2018 (WiC 422)

It is hard to know precisely when the first instance of ‘guerrilla’ or ‘ambush’ marketing happened. But one famed example occurred 18 years ago, when then boxing champ Mike Tyson took on Britain’s Julius Francis. It was heavily expected ...

Kweichow Moutai ends 17-year trademark battle
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

Moutai is the drink of choice at Chinese state banquets and corporate get-togethers but after a 17-year ordeal, the storied baijiu’s producer has finally decided to abandon its efforts to register a trademark that bills the sorghum ...

New pipeline puts Kinmen in headlines
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

Water, not land, was once Hong Kong’s most expensive commodity. The colonial government shipped it from Japan during periods of scarcity and the Royal Air Force also tried seeding local rain clouds. Following a serious drought in 1963, the ...

France’s World Cup win has had commercial consequences in China
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

The final whistle was blown at the World Cup in Russia two weeks ago but the off-field commercial battles in China are lasting much longer. Kitchenware retailer Vatti, for one, is having a serious World Cup hangover. The Guangdong-based firm ...

Nike says Chinese football to rule the world
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

Sportswear giant Nike couldn’t lose when Croatia met France in last Sunday’s World Cup final – it makes the shirts for both teams. It also claimed soccer ascendancy over its main rival Adidas in China when it took over as kit provider ...

Chinese firm scores own goal in World Cup bet
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

There were cheers across France when Les Bleus bested Belgium to progress to the World Cup Final. But for the team’s Chinese sponsor, le triomphe might be more cause for concern than for celebration. This year’s ...

Chinese firm claims to have invented a rifle that fires laser beams
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

When cinemagoers saw Star Wars in the late 1970s, one of the great revelations was the replacement of bullets with lasers – both the stormtroopers and the rebel alliance soldiers wielded blasters that shot deadly rays. Has China ...

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