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Muddy Waters, a shortseller, first came to wider attention in 2011 for asking awkward questions about accounting standards at companies like Sino Forest. Investors were shocked when ratings agency Moody’s joined the chorus of concern about ...
“Sometimes I think I am very lucky. I made mistakes when I was young, or at a time when I still had the chance to make amends,” Sun Hongbin told Global Entrepreneur magazine in an interview in 2010. Then only 47, Sun added that the successful ...
Manchurian Tiger, an indie film released in 2021, was set in Hegang, a city in Heilongjiang province on the border with Russia. The black comedy follows the story of protagonist Xu Dong, a former high school teacher who works as a ...
As the world’s most expensive property market, Hong Kong is poorly nourished soil for start-ups. But ironically enough, when the government made a play of seeding a new tech sector in the city in the late 1990s, it was the territory’s leading ...
Back in August 2019 WiC reported predictions from Huang Qifan, a former mayor of Chongqing, that tens of thousands of property firms could be headed for bankruptcy. His forecast followed warnings from officials that “houses are for living in, ...
Last week, we mentioned that business tycoon Cao Dewang, the founder of Fuyao Glass, appeared in a livestream during which he warned young people against buying homes. We wrote that the livestream was cut short, likely due to the growing sense of ...
Many consumers in China shop on Taobao. Part of the reason is that they know they can request refunds if the goods turn out to be defective. Trust is at stake. Sellers on the platform risk their reputations being trashed by unhappy buyers on ...
In the past, property developers in China have tried to jumpstart sales by offering everything from free home appliances to giveaway sedans. But the housing market in parts of the country has slowed to such an extent that the need to make sales ...
You could infer pretty much everything about the dramatic changes that Chinese football and the beleaguered property sector have undergone recently from the Chinese Super League’s (CSL) opener last week, with Henan Songshan Longmen drawing 2-2 ...
The best retail real estate investment trusts (REITs) are typically underpinned by the busiest shopping malls or outlet centres in prime locations. Asia’s biggest REIT in market capitalisation terms, Hong Kong’s Link, is unusual in this ...