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WiC 379 (Sep 8, 2017)

A divine power rises

Energy & Resources, Talking Point China’s energy sector set for a shake-up after Shenhua-Guodian move

In the 1990s the coalmining industry was one of the least compelling sectors in China. The bargaining power of its miners was so weak that they had to ...

Kim crashes party

Belt and Road, Economy Pyongyang upstages BRICS Summit

For an acronym to be memorable it should spell something recognisable. So, by that logic the BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ...

Auto Industry Why foreign giants are rushing to sign JVs to make electric…

Elon Musk’s prediction is that steering wheels will virtually disappear within twenty years, because most people will be transported in autonomous ...

Banking & Finance China outlaws virtual coin-based fundraising

When the world’s leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was conceived it was intended to be a decentralised currency with no point of authority determining ...

Three-horse race

Banking & Finance Are Ping An’s shares poised for a rerating?

As corporate threesomes go, they don’t get much stronger than the BAT troika of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. The three technology giants and their ...

Hong Kong’s first unicorn?

M&A Alibaba brokers GoGoVan’s merger with 58 Suyun

Many of the world’s greatest companies have compelling origin stories. Passionate founders subsisting on maxed-out credit cards and sleepless nights ...

Changes in store

China Consumer Fast food giants McDonald’s and KFC look for an edge in…

Last year a badly designed set of IKEA drawers toppled over in several homes, crushing four children. The Swedish home furnisher was obliged to recall ...

When pigs have wings

Agriculture WH Group sizzles, but it isn’t China’s most valuable pork firm

Belle International joined Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index in 2012. But the footwear maker was taken private in July and investors have been betting on ...

Gaining currency

Rise of the RMB Why investors are turning back to the yuan

How long should you hang in there? That was the question for short-sellers of China’s currency this week after a Texan hedge fund gave up its ...

Society What supermodel Gigi Hadid can learn from the Chinese survivors of…

When Gigi Hadid announced via her social media accounts last week that she will be walking down the runway at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in ...

Society Why Chinese parents want their kids to play niche sports

The two children of actress Liu Tao are known to be avid golfers. Similarly, Olympic gymnast Yang Wei’s son is learning to drive the ball off the ...

The power of poultry

Planet China China celebrates its version of Valentine’s Day on the seventh day…

China celebrates its version of Valentine’s Day on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. This year the day in question fell at the end of ...

Set to dominate in data, too?

Sino-File “We have half a billion customers with shopping intentions and a…

Alibaba’s CEO Daniel Zhang tells the Financial Times that Alibaba is positioning itself as a “data company”. Zhang was the brains behind the ...

Bigger and better?

Cartoons Bigger and better?

Chinese shipbuilders are celebrating after the French line CMA-CGM signed a letter of intent in August for the construction of the world’s biggest ...

And Finally Media looks for people pictured on old banknotes

Since 1999 most Chinese bank notes have borne the image of the country’s former leader Mao Zedong. But some older notes, still in circulation, carry ...