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Energy & Resources Chinese bid for Australian coal asset challenged by rival Glencore offer

The commodities giant Glencore has been described in many ways in its time, not least as clandestine, controversial and filthy rich. But one identifier ...

M&A Norsat deal becomes entwined in US politics

Canada’s Norsat is a company which claims to provide communications solutions for clients in challenging environments. Right now it is proving more ...

China Consumer Are unmanned retail outlets the shops of the future?

Last week Amazon announced a $13.7 billion plan to purchase grocery store chain Whole Foods, sparking speculation that the e-commerce giant was adding ...

China Consumer The mini-lobster is a huge business in China

Last week a truck that was carrying 200 boxes of crayfish – about 5 tonnes of the crustacean – skidded while on a highway in Jingzhou, Hubei ...

Entertainment Chinese audience rapidly loses its appetite for a Japanese remake

Move over Chef’s Table as there’s another TV series that has been quietly gaining a cult following on Netflix. It’s called Midnight Diner: ...

Agriculture Singapore’s Wilmar eyes Shanghai listing

In February 1917, China’s biggest English language daily, the China North Daily News, published a story claiming that a German factory was harvesting ...

Society Confusion and anger after a kindergarten blast

At 4.50pm last Friday a large explosion ripped through the crowd outside a kindergarten in Feng county, Jiangsu province. A tower of orange flame ...

Ask Mei Fake news about China’s ‘fighting spirit’

Last week an unsourced article with the headline “Harvard Professor: a national characteristic unknown even to the Chinese has kept the nation ...

Planet China Last week a single car parking space in a high-end apartment…

Last week a single car parking space in a high-end apartment building in Hong Kong sold for HK$5.18 million ($664,000). That topped a record set last ...

Sino-File “Midea is very well connected to the consumer industry. So together…

Kuka’s CEO Till Reuter tells the Financial Times that the industrial robotics firm will expand into the faster growing consumer robotics industry, ...

Cartoons Chickens on the run

Food safety and poverty alleviation are hot topics in the Chinese media so Alibaba’s rival JD.com has hit the public relations jackpot by combining ...

And Finally First photo booths, now karaoke cubicles

It takes confidence to sing in front of a room full of people, but how about singing in a glass box in the middle of a shopping mall? A string of ...