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WiC 328 (Jun 10, 2016)

China and the World, Talking Point Did the latest China-US dialogue lead to any progress?

When John Kerry was in Mongolia on Sunday he appeared in notably martial mood, posing for photographs with a traditional bow and arrow. The imagery of ...

Opening Pandora’s box

China Consumer Danish jeweller shines as its more illustrious rivals struggle

After shutting down 15 outlets in China in the first quarter of this year, Ermenegildo Zegna is hoping that revamping its product mix will help boost ...

Paying the price

Energy & Resources Why Husky may sue its longstanding partner CNOOC over their gas…

The working relationship between oil producer CNOOC and Li Ka-shing, one of Asia’s wealthiest men, goes back a long way. In late 1999 CNOOC was ...

Property To see many of China’s problems, go to Nanyang

Readers of WiC will be aware that China has a problem with bad debt, government corruption, too much housing stock, lousy rates paid on bank savings ...

Telecoms Xiaomi pulls back from Brazil in the wake of challenging sales…

When Xiaomi first arrived in the Brazilian market last year, stocks of its Redmi 2 launch model were depleted within a couple of hours. Xiaomi was ...

Too prone to copy

Economy Financier Peter Fuhrman on China’s IP flaws

China’s lack of robust intellectual property protection makes winners and losers of all of us living here. We can choose to save big money by buying ...

Who’s Hu Dongming Petrochemical

Known as ‘teapots’, China’s independent oil refineries have been gaining market share at the expense of state-owned energy majors. Dongming ...

The missing link

Internet & Tech Unlike Facebook, LinkedIn is doing well in China

When the court historian Chen Shou wrote about the Three Kingdoms and the preceding Eastern Han Dynasty (25-280 AD), a warlord and his horse came in ...

Cash for questions

Media New Chinese app looks to profit from a thirst for knowledge

The Encyclopaedia Britannica was one of the world’s most successful attempts to monetise knowledge. The encyclopaedia started out in 1768 as an ...

Society, Sport Chinese retailer buys Inter Milan; is AC Milan next?

Money doesn’t always guarantee success in football. Oil tycoon president Massimo Moratti smashed the transfer world record twice after he bought ...

Shooting for the moon

Entertainment, Society A China-backed Hollywood blockbuster breaks a box office record

Too much time playing the computer game World of Warcraft (WoW) poses health risks. At least that seemed to be the story last year, when a 24 ...

Planet China Two years ago a 15 year-old shocked airport security experts by…

Two years ago a 15 year-old shocked airport security experts by sneaking into a Boeing-767 and surviving a six hour flight to Hawaii in the plane’s ...

Shaken confidence

Sino-File “What has led to this pessimism is the unfulfilled promises”

Jorg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce, discusses with the Financial Times its latest Business Confidence Survey among its ...

Hawking wins more devotees

Cartoons Hawking wins more devotees

The National Higher Education Entrance Exam, or the gaokao, was held in China this week, with roughly 9.4 million students sitting the ...

And Finally Children’s Day promo gives stock market regulator the jitters

The Wall Street Bull – an eleven foot-tall bronze statue – was an unsolicited and (initially) unwelcomed gift. The charging bull’s creator, ...