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WiC 313 (Feb 12, 2016)

M&A, Talking Point Wave of Chinese overseas M&A continues with record-sized bid for Syngenta

The rise and fall of the world’s preeminent ‘great’ power is an event witnessed perhaps just once in a lifetime. For example, those who came ...

Banking & Finance China’s biggest Ponzi scheme brings trouble for state broadcaster

China has so many financial forums these days that a decent speaker can make quite a living – the China Economic Times reports that top economists ...

Internet & Tech Meet Biel, the Chinese giant behind Apple

In Chinese culture, the noble tradition of yinshi stretches back 3,000 years to the beginnings of Daoism. It translates as a hidden ...

China and the World Can Beijing take comfort from Hanoi reshuffle?

Vietnam’s five-yearly National Congress ran from January 21 to 28. Like China’s own it decides the policy direction of the nation for the next five ...

Sport Chinese spending spree shocks world football

This year’s football season is full of surprises. It looks like lowly Leicester City might win the English Premier League, and a team from Nanjing ...

Auto Industry Luxury car sales slump, but domestic SUVs speed out of showrooms

When Henry Royce was designing his first vehicle, he was advised by a friend to create “a reliable car at a low price”. He rejected the idea, ...

Entertainment, Media China’s internet anchors prove controversial

In 2007, 22 year-old graduate called Zhang Xiaoyu from Beihua University became a national celebrity. Why? She posed nude on artists’ websites. In ...

Banking & Finance China steps up controls on capital outflows via UnionPay

In April last year when Hong Kong’s stock market was in euphoric overdrive, a short story from the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily went largely ...

Banking & Finance How major shareholders are explaining their stock sales

"Living together but not married” was how one media outlet described the new partnership of China Unicom and China Telecom (see WiC310). But ...

China Consumer Can Sha county consolidate its culinary heritage

Look closely enough, and it’s easy to spot a tribal quality to Chinese business. Regular readers will recall the high number of gold miners arriving ...

Entertainment Steven Chow comedy film is the big holiday period hit

A great TV series isn’t always hit-movie material. The recent reboot of The X-Files (now airing on TV for a 10th season), may have stoked ...

China Consumer Li Ning partners with tech firms in turnaround plan

In 2008, Li Ning soared to the top of the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, lighting the Olympic flame. But like many things that go up, Li Ning soon ...

Ask Mei Why is the Spring Festival Gala the show Chinese love to…

As most of Week in China’s readers know, the world’s most watched live TV programme Chunwan 春晚 or the Spring Festival Gala on CCTV is ...

Planet China Last month we wondered if the internet could serve as a…

Last month we wondered if the internet could serve as a force for persuading Chinese commuters to obey the rules on public transport. The test case was ...

Cartoons Mayhem in Mongkok

There was an inauspicious start to the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong when riots broke out in the Mongkok district on Monday night. The trouble flared ...

Sino-File “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain. If you…

UK leader David Cameron offers his best wishes for the Year of the Monkey and uses a Chinese proverb to describe how Sino-British ties will be even ...

And Finally Why China needs four million donkeys a year

It is not often that a food scandal will see donkey meat feature as the adulterated rather than the adulterating product. But in China, where the ...