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WiC 388 (Nov 17, 2017)

Intelligent moves

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Singles’ Day is a good example of how China is moving ahead…

China’s Singles’ Day – on November 11, every year – is a favourite for shoppers and journalists alike. Consumers search for bargains amid the ...

Internet & Tech Qihoo 360 plays up national security in hope of China return…

There are 2,090 companies listed on Hong Kong’s stock exchange but not all of them are classed as investment-worthy. Several hundred have been thinly ...

Don’t dare to share

Auto Industry Should BMW be embracing Shenyang’s car-sharing club?

Sensual and sexy: two adjectives deemed appropriate for both the Victoria’s Secret models who adorned the catwalk and the new car they were ...

Xu’s grand ambition

Property Country Garden joins HSI, while Evergrande waits for Shenzhen listing

In 1986 Yeung Kwok-keung ran a construction firm in Shunde in Guangdong province. For some time, its commercial prospects were overshadowed by fears ...

Big bang begins

Banking & Finance China to remove ceiling for foreign ownership in financial firms

It is almost 11 years since the first meeting of the China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue in Beijing. The brainchild of the then US Treasury Secretary ...

Changing the guard

Economy With Wang Qishan stepping down, Zhao Leji takes over as anti-graft…

The role of China’s vice president is generally awarded to a senior figure in the Communist Party. An exception was Rong Yiren, who served as the ...

Joining the yacht club

M&A Zhongwang drops Aleris bid and turns to boat builder

In his own country, he has been bestowed with the title “constructor of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” It is not a moniker that was ever ...

Entertainment Dream come true for tycoon Jack Ma as he takes lead…

What would you do if you had $100 billion at your disposal? Jeff Bezos looks like the person who might have to answer that question first. The ...

The bald and the beautiful

Society Young Chinese worry they’re losing their hair prematurely

In China each generation born to a new decade is said to have defining characteristics. Those born in the Sixties are said to be conservative and ...

Yunnan mushrooms

Fast Food Yun jun

The return of truffle season in Europe stirs up a buying frenzy every autumn, but halfway around the world the Chinese too have a long history of ...

Raising a glass

China Consumer Kweichow Moutai, China’s paramount liquor, leads the A-share market

When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, sales of China Xijiu, a brand of baijiu that just happens to share a common Chinese character in its ...

Sober as a judge?

Planet China Last week we reported on a drunken traffic cop who caused…

Last week we reported on a drunken traffic cop who caused a road accident in a city in Sichuan. This week the inebriation moves up the ranks with news ...

Nikon shutters China factory

Cartoons Nikon shutters China factory

Peek into most restaurants in China and you will see people taking photos of food. In the days before the smartphone, the habit was restricted to food ...

Xi’s $24 trillion promise to the world

Sino-File “All businesses registered in China will be treated as equal”

Xi Jinping offers encouragement to foreign firms during an address to regional leaders at an APEC summit in Vietnam last Friday. He said that China ...

Courting trouble

And Finally Shoplifting UCLA players’ lucky escape in China

The timing couldn’t have been much worse. On November 7, just 24 hours before President Donald Trump touched down in Beijing, three American ...