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WiC 329 (Jun 17, 2016)

Fairytale opening

China Consumer, Talking Point Will Shanghai and Disney live happily ever after?

Cities will go a long way to secure a Disneyland. For example, when Hong Kong began its courtship of Mickey Mouse, the government broke with standard ...

China’s new property titans

Property Why state firms have been smashing land auction records

If China’s economic growth is slowing down the impact doesn’t seem to have reached Christie’s auction house. Last month in Hong Kong a large, ...

Leaving Las Vegas

Rail & Infrastructure Another setback for Chinese rail ambitions overseas

China’s plans for high-speed rail move at two different paces: steaming ahead at home, but frustratingly start-stop overseas. Consider the news ...

Index indignity

Banking & Finance China puts a brave face on another rejection from MSCI

One of the jokes about the index compiler MSCI in Chinese financial circles is that its initials stand for “Must Short-Sell China ...

From Congo to cars

Energy & Resources Why Chinese firms are snapping up cobalt mines in Africa

In the early 1960s the CIA plotted to assassinate the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first freely elected, post-colonial president, Patrice Lumumba. ...

China and the World Chinese firms grab the chance to invest in Brazilian infrastructure

Seven years ago Brazil made history as the first South American nation to win the right to host the Olympic Games. Akin to other winners of an Olympic ...

Robotic response

M&A German politicians want a local counter bid for Midea target Kuka

In mid-2005 politicians in Washington lobbied frenetically against CNOOC’s $18.5 billion buyout of American energy firm Unocal. The political ...

All eyes on Florida

China and the World How China reacted to the shooting in Orlando last Sunday

On Sunday the United States experienced its deadliest mass shooting, when a gunman opened fire at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 and ...

Who’s Hu Cheung Kei Group

Last year the record for Hong Kong’s most expensive home was broken when a house in the prestigious Peak district changed hands for HK$1.5 billion ...

A genuine disaster movie

Entertainment More delays for Empire of the Deep; will it ever be…

“My idea is to make movies on the biggest scale there is,” the property developer-turned-filmmaker Jiang Hongyu told the New York Times back in ...

Entertainment, Society Shanxi mayors in TV push

Wang Ruling, the Party boss of Shanxi, once described his province as facing “systematic collapse-style corruption”. Some of the behaviour that ...

Planet China Do you ever have that nightmare where you are struggling with…

Do you ever have that nightmare where you are struggling with a school exam and about to flunk it? Sichuan’s Liang Shi lives that nightmare, going ...

The counterfeit conundrum

Sino-File “The problem is the fake products today are of better quality…

Alibaba’s Jack Ma takes a new tack after his firm was criticised for selling fakes on its site Taobao. Ma said the counterfeits are made in the same ...

Safe driving tips

Cartoons Safe driving tips

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Baidu’s Jing Wang predicted that children born today won’t need to get a driver’s licence. He ...

Fantasy football

And Finally China looks for its own answer to Captain Tsubasa

Japan’s most successful football star is Tsubasa Oozora. First he won everything at junior level. Then thanks to his mantra of always striving to be ...