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Issue 456

Internet & Tech, Talking Point A Chinese currency king makes a record bid for lunch with…

For some of the whizz kids in the world of ‘cryptoculture’, the key to standing out from the crowd is performing stunts that raise your profile. ...

Auto Industry Chinese EVs hope to go the extra mile with hydrogen and…

The California gold rush was sometimes likened to Nature’s lottery, where the chances of success were one in a million at best. Perhaps the same will ...

Economy Why an extradition bill has been wreaking havoc in Hong Kong

For journalists in the modern era, reporting on crowd sizes at very large protests is problematic. The organisers of the demonstrations generally say ...

China and the World Is Trump’s trade war bringing China and Russia ever closer together?

This year marks the seventieth anniversary of formal diplomatic relations being established between China and Russia. To mark the occasion President ...

China and the World Chinese navy sails into Sydney and does some shopping

Not the usual white powder’ was the feedback from the police last year after a raid on a property in Sydney turned up 4,000 tins of milk formula. ...

Internet & Tech Huawei goes on the 5G offensive after US ban, readying new…

Since Washington announced that it was banning US companies from selling software and components to Huawei last month, the Chinese telecom giant has ...

Entertainment Romance film becomes surprise hit – but was it through box…

For some 2,000 years, Chinese people have marked the Duanwu Festival by eating sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves – called ...

Society New KAWS clothing line sets Chinese fans on a stampede

Originally a graffiti artist, Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, first painted his Instagram-friendly graphic cartoon characters on ...

Other Industries Why the $625 million IPO of China’s biggest cooking school has…

WiC readers still harbouring any doubts about China’s world conquering potential could do worse than watch one of the many adverts propagated by New ...

Red Star He gets famous by being boring

“Red net” celebrities, or wanghongs, are China’s millennial superstars who find fortune and fame by live-streaming video content ranging from egg ...

Fast Food A popular item among China's Hakka people

What is it? A dish said to come from Meizhou in Guangdong, Meicai Kourou is popular amongst ...

Planet China A restaurant in Sichuan has nabbed a couple of repeat food…

A restaurant in Sichuan has nabbed a couple of repeat food burglars that have been enjoying 2am feasts by climbing in through the kitchen window. After ...

Sino-File “I don’t think this is an important question. I don’t think…

Central bank governor Yi Gang denies there is a hard limit of Rmb7 to the dollar that will cap the Chinese currency’s depreciation. In response to ...

Cartoons Flying saucer or JL-3 rocket?

Last Sunday alarmed Chinese took to social media to report a string of UFO sightings. But rather than flying saucers and extraterrestrials, what they ...

And Finally Guangdong prisoners are buying from Alibaba

China’s 1.7 million prison inmates are no strangers to their country’s digital revolution. Some of them were even apprehended in facial recognition ...