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WiC 323 (May 6, 2016)
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Apple’s core problem?
China Consumer, Talking Point As iPhone boom subsides, Apple gets more unwelcome news from China

Five years ago, the craze for iPhones in China was taking the black market trade in smartphones to new heights. Such was the Apple phenomenon in ...

The Midas men
Banking & Finance China’s top two tycoons chase down Bill Gates in the riches…

Does the curse of being named as China’s richest man still apply? Traditionally many of the country’s tycoons have been wary of the title, fearing ...

When credit is due
Economy Is China’s debt-driven growth model living on borrowed time?

Even a broken clock is correct twice a day. And in the same way, an analyst can stumble on the right prediction if the same call is made year after ...

Full steam ahead
Shipping Cosco signs up for giant new vessels, despite the collapse in…

When construction of the Yamato was finished in 1941, it joined the Japanese fleet as the world’s biggest battleship. The celebrations were muted. By ...

In the driver’s seat
Auto Industry GM vies for top spot in China as SUV sales surge

“The availability of gasoline, as is well known, is quite limited,” wrote US magazine, The Horseless Age in 1905. “It behooves the farseeing men ...

The plot thickens
Entertainment, Society China’s corruption campaign to get its own House of Cards

Writing in The Spectator magazine last week, former UK politician Michael Dobbs revealed that he had been invited to meet Xi Jinping during his visit ...

Shan Xiangshuang
Who’s Hu China's Schwarzman

Steve Schwarzman left Lehman Brothers to start the Blackstone Group in 1985 with $400,000. It took 22 years for Blackstone to go public and the company ...

Poetic licence
Entertainment Hit movie sequel delights some with use of ancient verse, alienates…

In the film You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan asks Tom Hanks why men like to quote lines from The Godfather. He replies: “The ...

Ten cents at a time
Society Social media tycoon gifts a tenth of his fortune

No one has ever been quite sure how the internet giant Tencent got its English name. Most likely it is because it sounds similar to its Chinese name ...

Anti-climax
Planet China When your product is innately sexual, it can sometimes prove a…

When your product is innately sexual, it can sometimes prove a drawback when you are arranging promotional activities. British condom maker Durex ...

Bags of confidence in China
Sino-File “Analysts underestimate the Chinese economy – the fundamentals are good. Household…

The bullish assessment quoted by The Economist of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault. The magazine also cited a study by Boston Consulting and AliResearch ...

Rocket man
Cartoons Rocket man

James Bond fans will fondly remember the opening scene in Thunderball where Sean Connery makes his escape by strapping on a jetpack and flying ...

The good cop
And Finally Cop spots danger minutes before sinkhole opens

Throughout the world traffic cops are one of the most disliked forms of authority. But last week in China the profession got a boost when a ...

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