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WiC 384 (Oct 20, 2017)

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Why four year-old ZhongAn Insurance has become an investor darling

Jack Ma, Pony Ma and Peter Ma could be termed China’s ‘thoroughbred trio’. The three tycoons share the same surname – Ma – which means ...

Society As world mulls mogul’s fall, Chinese analyse sexual harassment at home

Sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words. The image of Harvey Weinstein leering at top Chinese actress Fan Bingbing falls into that category ...

Economy Differing messages from IMF meeting and Xi’s address to Party Congress

China’s A-share market climbed to an all-time high of 6,124 on October 16, 2007. It was a watershed moment that investors remember well. It came just ...

Auto Industry Great Wall in partnership talks with BMW

Two cars made their debuts in 1959 and both were described as icons of their time. One rolled off the production line in the summer of that year and ...

Aviation, Corporate Q&A Founder of VistaJet discusses China’s private jet market

Alibaba’s online shopping platform Taobao was offering some unexpected items for sale last month – three Boeing 747s, seized by a court in Shenzhen ...

Telecoms Can TCL revive Palm and BlackBerry?

In January 2015, TCL purchased the rights to the Palm brand from HP. The next year, the Chinese consumer electronics maker announced that it had also ...

China Consumer After testing the market on Tmall, Costco mulls debut store in…

In the 1950s Sol Price said “I’m going as far as the boys want to take it,” a reference to his expansion plans for the wholesale warehouse store ...

Telecoms A ruling by Chinese patent authorities favours Huawei over Samsung

When NBA superstar Stephen Curry was giving autographs to fans during the Golden State Warriors’ pre-season trip to Shanghai this month, he lingered ...

Property New experiment in Yiwu sees farmers able to mortgage their land

Seventeen years ago, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto coined the phrase “ dead capital” – land and property that could never be used as ...

Entertainment Stage play becomes China’s biggest comedy movie ever

First, the good news: the eight-day long National Day holiday, a prime moviegoing season, set a new record. Its box office haul reached almost Rmb3 ...

Entertainment, Society Pop idol’s love statement sends Sina Weibo into meltdown

When actor Wang Baoqiang announced on Sina Weibo that he was divorcing his wife in August 2016 – after accusing her of cheating on him with his agent ...

Planet China China’s recycling industry reached new heights this month when news emerged…

China’s recycling industry reached new heights this month when news emerged that a businessman in Henan had bought two retired passenger jets with a ...

Sino-File “There will be no sea cucumber and prawns”

Wang Lilian, director of delegate hospitality for the 19th Party Congress, promised “non-fancy” cuisine at this week’s political gathering. “In ...

Cartoons Nip and stuck?

Facial recognition has become a hot investment theme in China, with the technology being used ever more widely (see WiC380). But a flaw in the concept ...

And Finally Ukrainian dating club promises brides from the Belt and Road

The origins of American “mail order brides” date back 400 years to the time when the Virginia Company was having trouble keeping its colony at ...