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WiC 344 (Oct 28, 2016)

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Economy, Logistics, Talking Point ZTO’s New York IPO is the biggest for a Chinese firm…

Wells Fargo was founded as a banking and delivery firm during the California gold rush in the 1850s: buying and delivering gold and other valuable ...

No longer a follower

Internet & Tech As Twitter stumbles, Sina Weibo has evolved into a stronger player

When Sina Corp spun off its Weibo unit in New York two years ago, the share offering struggled. There was demand for only 16.8 million shares – fewer ...

Corporate Q&A China has overtaken US as Australia’s biggest export market for wine

China has just toppled the United States as the leading import market for Australian wine. Reds and whites from Down Under increased by more than half ...

Rail & Infrastructure Higher tolls and longer concessions likely for struggling expressways

The world's longest desert highway – which spans 900 kilometres of Inner Mongolia – opened to traffic last month. It offered evidence once more ...

China Tourist Clampdown on Crown sends shudders through gaming industry

The threat was clear enough. “Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases,” Hua ...

Uprooting 10 million

Economy China wants to relocate a population the size of Hungary’s

The construction of the Three Gorges Dam was a gigantic feat of both structural and social engineering. In order to make way for its reservoir, 1.24 ...

Sister Rolls-Royce

World of Weibo Sister Rolls-Royce

The same week that the national broadcaster aired a drama showcasing the achievements of Xi’s crackdown on corruption (see page 18), a video of a ...

China Consumer UK firm struggles to replicate its condom success

A survey from Durex earlier this year revealed the average age that people lose their virginity around the globe. Ranking top was Iceland at just 15.6 ...

Property How Chongqing keeps home prices under control

China has experienced – and survived – its fair share of housing booms and busts. Jim Chanos, a famous shortseller, once described the 2010 bubble ...

Projected losses

Entertainment China’s cinema slowdown is going to hit some stars in the…

Last week Tom Cruise was in China for a week of promotional work for his latest feature Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The Hollywood superstar ...

Watch and learn

Society Graftbusters send message on eve of Sixth Plenum

Set up in 1974, Hong Kong’s independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was tasked with stamping out graft in the local police force. The work ...

Society Canteen culture back in the spotlight at company eateries

During the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s, Chairman Mao tried to ban many of his countrymen from cooking. Farmers and factory workers were told ...

Red Star Hope of the nation

Sometimes dubbed the ‘Paul Newman of the soccer world’, the silver-haired Marcello Lippi has had a storied career. The 68 year-old coach led Italy ...

Planet China Getting China to quit smoking is a hard task. One of…

Getting China to quit smoking is a hard task. One of the nation’s most revered leaders, Deng Xiaoping, was a prolific chain smoker and he died at the ...

Not so diplomatic

Sino-File “An unprecedented wave of complaints reaching our embassy and consulates indicate…

Germany’s ambassador to China Michael Clauss tells the South China Morning Post that his nation’s companies are downbeat about the competitive ...

The capital in a can

Cartoons The capital in a can

Last year WiC reported on a Canadian enterprise exporting bottled air to Beijing and offering residents a respite from the pollution that dogs the ...

Too much baggage

And Finally French brand distances itself from suitcase ad

Luxury fashion brands often go to great lengths to court celebrities. For instance, to help dress actress Julianne Moore for this year’s Oscars, Karl ...