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Don’t be a cry baby

Angelababy lambasted by netizens over her latest reality TV outing
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Back in 2015, Angelababy, one of China’s most prominent actresses and showbiz celebrities, sued a hospital in Beijing for defamation after it claimed that she had undergone plastic surgery there. To prove it, she went to another hospital for a ...

Reach for the stars

Streaming celebrities help Alibaba set another Singles’ Day record
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

China’s princess of live-streaming is called Viya. Real name Huang Wei, she goes into overdrive during the run-up to Singles’ Day. Starting her broadcasts in the early afternoon, she pitches her wares until well past midnight, selling ...

Why a ban on online sales of e-cigarettes is only partly health-related
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

More than two months ago Donald Trump promised a crackdown on vaping. He said that e-cigarettes that weren’t formulated to taste like tobacco were set to be taken off the market and that the minimum age for purchasing e-cigarettes could be ...

Third time unlucky

Shi Yuzhu drops bid for Israeli gaming firm
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Circle of Friends (or COF) is one of the many attractions on WeChat, Tencent’s social media app. Its primary function, as the name suggests, is helping friends to congregate online. For businesspeople their COF also serves as a network to ...

Is seaweed the answer?

Shanghai drugs firm claims a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s treatment
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Seaweed has been a long-term favourite as an ingredient in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). The marine algae is trusted to treat skin disorders, reduce swelling, provide relief from bronchitis and inhibit the growth of some types of cancerous ...

Troubled relaunch

Why Didi faced a backlash from female users
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

A survey in the China Youth Daily found that over 50% of women had experienced some kind of inappropriate touching while using buses and trains. The problem led to experiments with women-only buses and train carriages. And last week Didi ...

The bull is back

China’s A-shares have had a much better year
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

Bulls are auspicious in the financial world. But the animal at the Shanghai stock exchange – a copper sculpture – wasn’t regarded as much of an omen. The beast was dismissed for being too thin, with a lowered head that imparted a sense of ...

Jingye swoops for struggling British steelmaker
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

When Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward in 1957, the goal was to overtake the UK in steel output within 15 years. More than 60 years later a Chinese firm says that it wants to take control of much of what is left of the British steel ...

Survive and thrive

Electric car pioneers keep sight of the longer term
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

The old joke about why the chicken crossed the road is taking on new meaning in China. Within a decade, the main obstacle to getting from one side to the other could take the form of a high-speed egg on wheels. That’s according to He Xiaopeng, ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Month one: my Chinese cohort
Nov 15, 2019 (WiC 474)

I’m hunched over my laptop punching in the key words and concepts that my professor is spewing at an unholy speed. Then he leaps up mid-sentence to announce we’re going to play a game. I glance at my neighbour who is equally startled, ...

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