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A tech firm knows it has become part of the social fabric when it inspires a hit TV show. Case in point: Craigslist. Elizabeth Meriwether says she ...
Blame China. That was the message from Pernod Ricard a fortnight ago as it warned of falling profits. The spirits maker – which owns brands including ...
To hear Jack Ma put it, his investment in the film studio Huayi Brothers was largely down to Stephen Chow, the Hong Kong comedian. Ma, who owned 8% of ...
When Shuanghui International completed its $7.1 billion acquisition of Smithfield Foods – the world’s biggest hog producer – it was generally ...
By early October there were 15 regional Chinese banks waiting for approvals to go public. Unable to list on the domestic A-share market, the lenders ...
Be rational when buying a house, don’t just blindly follow others. That was the fairly humdrum advice being given to potential homebuyers as they ...
For the African fisherman calling ashore to find out which market will pay most for his catch or the health worker looking for expert advice on how to ...
One imagines that when Beijing-based ambassadors brief visiting dignitaries on acceptable small talk to use on Chinese leaders the subject of Nobel ...
Sometime in the fourteenth century a young orphan in rural England walked to London after hearing that its streets were paved with gold. He soon ...
The smog enveloping China’s cities isn’t just an irritant to their inhabitants’ lungs. The government in Beijing is now concerned that pollution ...
Verdict of the Ukrainian billionaire Oleg Bakhmatyuk. He told the Financial Times that his firm UkrLandFarming has done deals with COFCO and New ...
They may be longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall, but the fleet of Valemax mega ships hasn’t impressed the Chinese, who have banned them from docking ...
WiC has mentioned Mao’s much-quoted saying that women “hold up half the sky” before. But in the eyes of Beijing’s police, they are as likely to ...