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WiC 356 (Mar 3, 2017)

Sport, Talking Point Are Chinese soccer clubs spending their money wisely?

“Madness” was how Wayne Rooney’s former Manchester United teammate Roy Keane described the reports that England’s captain and all-time leading ...

Chinese Character Could Ding Lei’s NetEase become China’s fourth major internet power?

The rivalry between China’s top three internet firms – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – is well documented. But the contest to challenge their ...

Crocodiles skinned

Banking & Finance Regulators act against market mavericks

Hong Kong newspapers have long described predatory financiers with the Cantonese word for “crocodiles”. During the Asian financial crisis in ...

Wild about wool

China Consumer Chinese want finer fabric, helping Aussie farms

Samuel Scattergood was 36 when he was transported to Australia for stealing a sheep in his native Leicestershire in 1850. The first task for Western ...

Feeling insecure

Banking & Finance Apple Pay finds it tough in China

In the winter of 1949 the barcode was invented on a beach in Florida. Joe Woodland’s job was to speed up supermarket check-outs. Dragging his fingers ...

Ruling the waves

Belt and Road, Shipping Industry expert Basil Karatzas on China’s quest to dominate global shipping

The shipping industry, whether for dry bulk, tanker, containership or offshore assets, has been suffering from a monumentally weak freight rate ...

Property Why demand for residential properties has grown in Hainan

One of the reasons given by Hugo Barra – who now heads Facebook’s virtual reality division Oculus – for leaving smartphone maker Xiaomi was that ...

Entertainment Is Nicholas Tse’s latest film designed to launch a restaurant empire?

WiC has covered its fair share of celebrity divorces over the years, including that of Nicholas Tse (see WiC114). Some of them are messy and spiteful, ...

Blonde ambition

Planet China While American retailers such as the department store Nordstrom have been…

While American retailers such as the department store Nordstrom have been reluctant to sell Ivanka Trump’s fashion line, Chinese companies have ...

Sino-File “However much they try, their brands aren’t premiumising well. Consumers view…

Gordon Orr of McKinsey comments on the sales declines of local beer brands Snow, Tsingtao and Yanjing last year. The Financial Times notes that foreign ...

The richest delivery man

Cartoons The richest delivery man

Courier firms from Zhejiang’s Tonglu county provide the logistical backbone for China’s booming e-commerce industry but having crowded out much of ...

Survival instinct

And Finally Baidu boss in bid to boost image

He jumps out of helicopters and abseils down cliffs, but Bear Grylls, the former Special Forces soldier and host of the survival series Running Wild, ...