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WiC 391 (Dec 11, 2017)

All encompassing visions

Internet & Tech, Talking Point As 2017 ends, which of China’s tech titans Tencent and Alibaba…

We all know that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. But for the South Koreans, Samsung is the third inescapable element of their ...

Shooting for the moon

Auto Industry As Faraday fights for survival, Nio readies for a crucial launch

When it comes to self-promotion, few have mastered the art better than Elon Musk. Last Friday, the billionaire ushered in the festive season with a ...

Keep on trucking

M&A A merger between the leading duo in an Uber-like truck service…

In 2011 a Fulbright scholar embarked on a marathon journey across China, grabbing lifts from a few of the five million or so truckers that haul cargo ...

Fortune shines on Guangzhou

Conferences Giants of the corporate world gathered last week in Guangdong's capital…

There are not many events where you might find Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Apple’s Tim Cook, Tencent’s Pony Ma and Foxconn’s Terry Gou all speaking. The ...

China and the World EU accuses China of dumping e-bikes

Plenty of Chinese cities have banned electric bicycles. Unlicenced and often driven on pavements instead of roads, the silent speedsters have been ...

Every second counts

Internet & Tech New exchange allows fans to trade celebrities’ private time

Each year there is an auction for the chance to sit down for lunch with Warren Buffett. The proceeds go to charity but the bidders are hardly selfless, ...

Turning a corner

Property A plan to revive one of Beijing’s famous streets

Since the days of the Ming Dynasty, Wangfujing has been home to royal family members. During the Qing, the Manchu offered residences there to crown ...

Make or break with Mulan

Entertainment Casting controversy over another version of one of China's favourite tales

Actress Vicki Zhao first tackled the role in 2009. So did China’s First Lady Peng Liyuan in an opera. And last week, Disney announced that local ...

Gone in an instant

China Consumer Food delivery firms are eating into instant noodle sales

Next year will mark six decades since the Japanese-Taiwanese inventor Momofuku Ando came up with the idea of instant noodles. Originally created as ...

Facing the future

China Consumer Water firm Nongfu decides to detour into skincare

A background in journalism likely taught Zhong Shanshan how to grab attention. The founder of Nongfu Spring has always had a knack for making ...

Auto Industry South Korean car makers suffer from THAAD row

Battery drain is a bugbear for the smartphone and electric car industries – a problem that technicians are continually trying to solve. But for ...

Who’s Hu Has prison time left the entrepreneur out of touch?

The tech industry always loves a comeback story and Wang Xin could have a great one to tell as he waits for release from jail. Could one of the ...

Society How buying a condo helps in getting a place at university

Getting into a good university is crucial to China’s high school students. They know it can shape the rest of their lives in terms of where they ...

Entertainment Firms bet on eSports business

The year 2022 will be an eventful one for sport in China. Beijing will host the Winter Olympics, making it the first city to have hosted both the ...

Braised pomelo pith

Fast Food Little goes to waste

Long before ‘sustainable cooking’ became a buzz term, the culinary practices of not wasting a single part of any ingredient were commonplace among ...

Go with the flow

Planet China Stories of motorists breaking traffic rules are common in China. Cases…

Stories of motorists breaking traffic rules are common in China. Cases in which drivers try to change the rules are a lot rarer, however. Enter a man ...

Beijing’s new fan club

Cartoons Beijing’s new fan club

Two years ago an artist spent a hundred days wandering Beijing with an industrial vacuum cleaner, sucking up the air. When he was finished, he ...

Brewing up a storm

Sino-File “One thing we didn’t count on is how busy the stores…

Howard Schultz, executive chairman of Starbucks, told the Financial Times this week that China could become its biggest market within a decade. Schultz ...

The seat of power

And Finally Xi Jinping calls for a sprucing up of the nation’s lavatories

Mao Zedong first forged the Cultural Revolution. Now Xi Jinping is promising a “Toilet Revolution”. And the case can be made that one led to the ...