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WiC 377 (Aug 25, 2017)

Turbulent times

Aviation, Talking Point Hong Kong’s flagship airline wrestles with new challenge from China

Longtime Cathay Pacific frequent flyers fondly remember the days when Chateau Lynch-Bages flowed freely at the front end of the plane. These days in ...

Information war

Telecoms How Big Data is bringing Chinese tech giants to blows

Big Data has been identified as a key driver for Alibaba’s earnings growth and its boss Jack Ma says he is already sitting on a huge trove of ...

China Consumer China’s pet industry is enjoying boom times

For the well being of her 13 year-old Schnauzer no expense is spared, Lu Yi told Forces Behind Brands, a news portal. The dog, she admits, is like a ...

Belt and Road, M&A Fosun pairs up with state partners in new round of overseas…

After kicking off the new football season with three consecutive victories, Wolverhampton Wanderers have been made favourites for promotion to the ...

Shelter for Qualcomm

Internet & Tech Rattled by lawsuits globally, has the US chipmaker found a friend…

In the early days of mobile telecommunications, there were two means of transmitting data wirelessly: GSM and CDMA. In 1987 the EU ruled that all ...

Found in translation

Internet & Tech The world’s sixth smartest company is…

“It must be the language of heaven,” is a Chinese equivalent to the English adage, “It’s all Greek to me”. But for the majority of countries ...

Reach for the skies

Aviation Chinese drone firms eye the potential for passenger travel

“Mark my word: a combination of airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.” So said Henry Ford in 1940. Since then, ...

Entertainment Is the practice of ‘brushing’ being used to boost online TV…

Brushing – or making fake orders – has plagued China’s e-commerce firms for a while. What happens is that specialised companies hack into ...

Society Netizens split on childrens’ messaging craze

“Children are not merchandise. There is no option to choose. Thank you for understanding.” So reads the advice on the online sales platform ...

Nursing a grievance

Planet China For many Chinese it’s a pre-dinner custom: snapping photos of dishes…

For many Chinese it’s a pre-dinner custom: snapping photos of dishes served at restaurants and posting them online. Many internet users go a step ...

When the chips are down

Sino-File “We have never seen this situation in the past”

A supply squeeze in memory chips that has lasted more than a year is “unprecedented”, says Lenovo’s boss Yang Yuanqing. He noted that it had hurt ...

The publishing blues

Cartoons The publishing blues

Oxford has bragging rights over Cambridge as the older university, but when it comes to establishing a publishing house, it was later to the ...

Two sides of a coin

And Finally How a box of change has spread a little warmth across…

It is not uncommon for desperate thieves to steal coins tossed into wishing wells. A serial offender got nabbed for it last week in Yunnan, having been ...