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WiC 330 (Jun 24, 2016)

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Didi and Uber’s epic fundraising battle fuels merger talks

When it comes to being victorious, Chinese history suggests it helps to have a Liu at the helm. The Liu family has produced the highest number of ...

M&A Why China Resources says no to Vanke for the first time…

For more than a decade China Vanke’s boardroom has been hailed as the place that showcases the most cordial corporate governance in China. The ...

China Consumer ChemChina is interested in buying McDonald’s China business

Ren Jianxin founded Bluestar in 1984 with a few small cleaning contracts, including one to rinse out the teapots at several state firms. Now his ...

Auto Industry State auto firm backtracks on 2012 commitment

Wang Yawei built his reputation as one of China’s savviest fund managers while working for China Asset Management (ChinaAMC), the biggest investment ...

Economy Why the state media is celebrating Wenzhou’s bankruptcy cases

When Hu Fulin first disappeared in 2011, leaving debts of Rmb2 billion ($300 million) at his eyewear firm, it looked like the so-called ‘King of ...

Economy Philips shuts in Shenzhen, but hopes for smarter future

In 1891 a Dutch engineer called Gerard Philips set up a factory in his native Eindhoven to make electric light bulbs. Electricity was the disruptive ...

Banking & Finance P2P lenders demand nude photos for student loans

In The Merchant of Venice, Shylock demands a pound of a borrower’s flesh as collateral for a loan – demanding it must be taken from around ...

Who’s Hu The Hope Group

The Hope Group is China’s most successful agribusiness firm, founded by the four Liu brothers from Sichuan. Liu Yonghao, one of the biggest ...

China and the World Russians cry foul over Chinese-financed dam in Mongolia

China’s ‘New Silk Road’ is supposed to herald a golden era of cross-border trade and investment, stretching out through a series of ‘economic ...

Entertainment The latest hit TV show tries to glamorise the job of…

Working as a translator for the former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao wasn’t the easiest of tasks. That’s because Wen was keen on dropping ancient (and ...

Entertainment WiC reports from Disney’s debut day

When Johnny Depp was working out how to play the rum-swigging Captain Jack Sparrow, he borrowed some of the mannerisms and verbal tics of the Rolling ...

Planet China Barefoot and in their nappies, three wandering toddlers made headlines last…

Barefoot and in their nappies, three wandering toddlers made headlines last week in Jiande city when they went on an unsupervised walkabout. Their ...

Sino-File “We continue to raise concerns about the general climate in China…

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew strikes a cautious tone in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute last Thursday. He said the obstacles faced by ...

Cartoons Hammering out the truth

Everyone places their trust in the BBC, it would seem, even the Chinese. Thus with the Hunan government about to open the world’s highest and longest ...

And Finally An Italian mayor wants to sell his town to the Chinese

By the end of the nineteenth century the Western powers were in a frantic race to secure territorial concessions in China. Italy was the only country ...