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WiC 367 (May 26, 2017)

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Internet & Tech, Talking Point How Tencent has become one of the world’s most valuable companies

For the better part of the twentieth century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was the world’s most valuable firm. Its grip on the ...

China Consumer Why McDonald’s is hiring 70,000 waiting staff

In the film The Founder, Michael Keaton plays the character of Ray Kroc, the business tycoon who liked to style himself as the founder of ...

Healthcare Alzheimer’s could soon become China’s biggest health problem

This publication has not touched on the subject of Alzheimer’s before, probably because the disease has largely been ignored in ...

M&A Does Hershey’s rue Golden Monkey purchase?

In Chinese, its name means good times, or hao shi. But times aren’t much fun for Hershey’s in China right now. In fact, the biggest ...

Internet & Tech Lenovo hires Liu Jun – for the third time

China’s foremost computer company has always liked to cloak itself in myth and symbolism. It called itself Legend when it was founded in 1984 and ...

Media China tightens rules on internet news

‘Fake News’ became a defining feature of the US presidential election last year. One particularly bizarre story alleged that Hillary Clinton and ...

Ask Mei The duality of Chinese patriotism

One of the most hotly discussed topics among Chinese netizens in the past week was a graduation speech given by a Chinese student at the University of ...

Internet & Tech Microsoft releases special OS edition for China

Much like retailers might hire “secret shoppers” to measure the quality of sales staff in network, technology companies sometimes invite hackers to ...

Entertainment Bona Film Group ties up with Wanda Cinema ahead of A-share…

During last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, Bona Film Group’s founder Yu Dong told reporters that if the studio didn’t complete an ...

Red Star The outspoken scientist

When China embarked on its economic reforms in the 1980s, one policy was to send the best students to overseas universities. Since then a challenge has ...

Society More scandal in academia

A 3,000-word paper titled The Conceptual Penis As A Social Construct was published this month by Cogent Social Sciences, a leading ...

Planet China Binzhou University earned an unwanted reputation last week as China’s most…

Binzhou University earned an unwanted reputation last week as China’s most puritanical educator after an embracing couple were chastised by a ...

Sino-File “We can bring the people a natural environment they have forgotten…

Emmanuel Brusq, the CEO of the Chinese subsidiary of France’s Pierre et Vacances Center Parcs Group, says a joint venture has been signed with the ...

Cartoons Controllers, controlled

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the origin of the word ‘drone’ dates back a millennia to the Old English word ‘dran’, which ...

And Finally Push to promote marriage as population figures are called into question

China might not be the world’s most populous country. That’s the finding of Yi Fuxian, a Chinese scientist based at the University of ...