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Issue 506

Stars of the STAR Market

Banking & Finance, Talking Point How is China’s Nasdaq-style board faring a year after its launch?

Launched in November 1999, Hong Kong’s Growth Enterprise Market was the first attempt to create a China-focused answer to Nasdaq. Hopes were high ...

Auto Industry CATL gets major new investors to fuel its EV battery business…

An important new relationship is crystallising in the electric vehicle (EV) sector, although few feel confident enough to hazard a guess about where it ...

Apple’s new China partner

Internet & Tech How a former ‘factory girl’ is putting pressure on Foxconn’s Terry…

After attending a much-feted internet conference in Wuzhen in December 2017, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook met two up-and-coming businesspeople. One was ...

Retail purchase

Internet & Tech E-commerce giant buys shops

At a time when many malls are short of traffic, shops are closing and retailers are going bankrupt, JD.com surprised the e-commerce sector last week by ...

Martian chronicles

Space Programme China launches its first planetary probe to look for water on…

Turns out you can’t just launch a Mars mission at any old time. There is a brief window of opportunity every 26 months when the Red Planet aligns ...

Rocky relations

Cross Strait Taiwan in difficult position as South China Sea tensions flare again

Once upon a time the United States supported Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea. The American military even gifted a fleet of vessels to ...

Diplomatic exit

China and the World Consulates close down, as Sino-US tensions simmer

Past experience means America’s overseas diplomats must keep an eye on the emergency exits. The last-gasp airlift from the embassy roof in Saigon in ...

The nuclear option

Economy Why 90 key scientists resigned abruptly from a state research institute…

For thousands of years scholars have enjoyed the highest social status in China. The Confucian value system afforded them great respect, asking that ...

Energy & Resources Another boom in coal-fired power plants in China

Coal has no place in Covid-19 recovery plans. So said UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres at an energy summit recently. But has that message reached ...

Thirties Shanghai

Entertainment New drama wins plaudits for focus on thirty-something women

Women are taking over Chinese television this summer. Sisters Who Make Waves, which debuted on Mango TV, the online streaming platform owned ...

Red Star Her row with talent manager reveals celebrity plight

Who is she? Yamy, whose real name is Guo Ying, found fame when she appeared on the reality ...

Talk of war gets louder on WeChat

Ask Mei How do Chinese netizens feel about the deteriorating Sino-US relations?

With the shutdown of the Chinese consulate in Houston and the tit-for-tat closing of the US consulate in Chengdu, Sino-American hostility seems to be ...

Politics and the pandemic

Sino-File “The comments are untrue and unacceptable and without any foundation, for…

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the claims made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to UK politicians that the World Health Organisation head was ...

And Finally Protection of pets in focus as bird is stolen

Pure white plumage, round head and a small but fat shape – call ducks with their adorable appearance are becoming rising stars in China's pet ...