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WiC 338 (Sep 2, 2016)

A state of gridlock

China and the World, Talking Point Another Chinese investment gets the Canberra cold shoulder

August was an awkward month for Sino-Australian relations, beginning with Mack Horton’s dismissal of Sun Yang, his Olympic swimming rival, as a drug ...

Cleared for take-off

Aviation China Eastern and China Southern to depart to new Beijing airport

The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) admitted in May that average flight delays last year reached 21 minutes, two minutes more than the ...

Internet & Tech Foxconn rejects Apple’s demand to slash its prices

In the financial markets, September is known as one of the riskier months, when stocks have a tendency to fall sharply. In the corporate calendar, ...

Auto Industry Gree’s acquisition is a big bet on new energy cars

Back in March, Dong Mingzhu, the formidable boss of Gree, China’s largest air conditioning manufacturer said her firm was purchasing a fellow ...

Banking & Finance Investors bet on the CSRC’s resolve to delist fraudulent firm

The introduction of delisting rules often creates consternation in stock markets. In the turbulence that follows, sometimes even the regulators pay the ...

Taking their medicine

M&A Baoneng versus China Resources again, this time in donkey tonic?

China Resources has a reputation for being one of China’s most illustrious state-owned firms. It was founded in 1938 as Liow & Co in Hong Kong, ...

A $182 billion market

Internet & Tech Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent see virtual reality as the next big…

It is the year 2044. The world’s resources have been depleted and the US economy has collapsed. Its citizens escape by plugging themselves into a ...

Stomach churning

Entertainment, Society Decision to release Bourne movie in 3D in China causes nausea…

Not every filmmaker is a fan of 3D cinema technology. Some, like JJ Abrams, have argued that 3D films do little to enhance the cinematic experience ...

A brave new world

Society Award-winning sci-fi book critiques social inequality

When science fiction writer Hao Jingfang won a Hugo award for her novelette Folding Beijing it should have been a source of national ...

Planet China Keeping a couple of guard dogs would seem to be a…

Keeping a couple of guard dogs would seem to be a smart way to protect your property. Think twice if you are living in China. In Guangdong’s Foshan, ...

China’s most costly hotel

Sino-File “Things are straightforward at Wanda – you get all the tools you…

Boris Blobel, general manager of the Wanda Reign hotel in Shanghai, tells China Daily that Wang Jianlin’s Wanda Group has assembled 50 Chinese hotels ...

Playing chicken

Cartoons Playing chicken

Over the coming years it is expected the US and China will play more games of ‘chicken’ – most likely over China’s creeping territorial ...

And Finally Another victim of an ancient treasure scam

China’s television and film regulator – often referred to by the dispiriting acronym SAPPRFT – has been typically busy in recent weeks, cracking ...