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WiC 359 (Mar 24, 2017)

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Boost for Hong Kong as Premier Li announces Bond Connect scheme

Taiwan’s Kuomintang was once reputed to be the world’s richest political party. But since losing power last year, its assets have been frozen while ...

Telecoms Chinese telecom firms to drop long-distance charges and roaming fees

In 1987 the mobile telecommunication industry got its commercial start in China when the government of Guangdong made 100 cell phones available for ...

Corporate Q&A CEO says Chinese tourism boom will continue to boost Samsonite’s earnings

Few international business executives can have seen as much of China as Ramesh Tainwala, the CEO of Samsonite. By his own estimation he has visited 200 ...

China Consumer This year CCTV’s consumer rights show had Nike in its cross…

March 15 has become a day that China’s public relations industry dreads. That’s because each year, the state-run broadcaster CCTV hosts a two-hour ...

China and the World Top diplomat prepares for Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping

The last time that Rex Tillerson was making headlines in China’s media he was being told to prepare for war, after likening the country’s ...

Internet & Tech China Fortune Land invests in fading online forum

Splashing out Rmb600 million ($86 million) on new players this year, Chinese Super League football club China Fortune Land was the biggest spender in ...

Energy & Resources Will lithium drive next Aussie resource boom?

China’s quest for iron ore resources in Australia has long been a bumpy road. Citic Group, for example, has yet to make any profit from its hefty ...

Entertainment Disney blockbuster opens strongly in China – and avoids controversial cuts

In the original Beauty and the Beast, published by a French novelist in 1740, Beauty is a strong willed girl and the moral of the story is the ...

Society Would you wait five hours for a cup of tea? They…

Young workers in Shanghai are notoriously busy, facing long commutes from the more affordable outskirts of the city, coupled with lengthy hours in the ...

Planet China The emergency services in the UK keep records of telephone calls…

The emergency services in the UK keep records of telephone calls that waste their time, like a distress call to police in London last year by a citizen ...

Sino-File “Globalisation in general is great for the world”

Tim Cook, the Apple boss, defends globalisation at the influential China Development Forum in Beijing last weekend. He admitted that the gains were not ...

Cartoons Class warfare

There was a strange sight at a school in Hebei province this month: a protest by 400 children against South Korea and its decision to install a ...

And Finally Mixed response to Chinese Marx statue in Trier

In China Karl Marx is a hero – the man who invented Communism, with a little help from Friedrich Engels, is venerated almost to the same degree as ...