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WiC 370 (Jun 16, 2017)

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Why short-sellers are turning their attention to Hong Kong

The reputation of the equity research industry reached crisis point in late 2001 when almost all of the 15 sell-side analysts covering Enron rated the ...

Property Why Evergrande sold Vanke stake at a hefty loss

There is a popular (if somewhat gruesome) Chinese saying that “If you can’t stand the pain of using a child as the bait, you will never catch the ...

Media State censor extends internet crackdown to celebrity gossip outlets

He was the first to report the budding romance between actress Zhang Ziyi and now-husband Wang Feng. He also caught actor Wen Zhang cheating on his ...

Cross Strait Panama ditches diplomatic ties with Taiwan

Taiwan has endured “all kinds of humiliation” because of the island’s diplomatic ties with Panama, China Times reported this week. A Panamanian ...

China and the World China reacts to Qatar debacle and wonders if it could get…

“From the moment that FIFA president Sepp Blatter revealed the name of the host country of the 2022 World Cup, the entire nation of Qatar was ...

Banking & Finance UnionPay takes on Alibaba and Tencent

“Even the beggars around the West Lake are using Alipay,” quipped Alibaba boss Jack Ma in reference to the famed lake in his company’s hometown ...

China Consumer China’s oldest winery buys more vines overseas

In 1892 Zhang Bishi planted a vineyard in the coastal town of Yantai, Shandong province, merging his last name and the Chinese character for ...

Entertainment Veteran action star makes Sino-Aussie movie in tribute to his dad

Before Jackie Chan found fame, he spent some of his youth in Australia. When he was 7, Chan’s parents moved from Hong Kong to Canberra where his ...

Ask Mei Why Chinese scholars are as good as their word

During a recent visit to the birthplace of Confucius in Qufu in Shandong province, I was amazed and amused by an ironic fact. The two characters ...

Society Anhui school back in the headlines in gaokao week

Once again the gaokao has rolled around on the academic calendar. The college entrance test is an annual fixture for final-year school students in ...

Planet China Bike sharing schemes have been rolled out in many Chinese cities.…

Bike sharing schemes have been rolled out in many Chinese cities. They were welcomed by local policymakers in the hope that they would contribute to a ...

Sino-File “This is another type of lunacy”

Samuel Nyandemo, a senior lecturer in economics at Nairobi University, tells the New York Times that the new rail line connecting Nairobi with Mombasa ...

Cartoons A Starbucks on every corner?

How many Starbucks outlets are there in the Forbidden City? Since 2007, the answer has been zero. The café in the corner of the imperial palace was ...

And Finally Why zoo investors fed a donkey to the tigers

In his 1991 bestseller Native Tongue, Florida-based satirist Carl Hiaasen explored the schizophrenic nature of theme parks: they are ...