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WiC 403 (Apr 6, 2018)

The Kim Jong-un Express

China and the World, Talking Point Say what you like about him but Kim Jong-un certainly has…

Such is his distrust of all things South Korean that even its pop music – or K-pop in everyday parlance – is forbidden. Kim Jong-un’s subjects ...

Trash talking to Trump

Economy US waste exports to China in the spotlight as wider trade…

Sino-US relations seemed solid enough last November, when Donald Trump was delighted by his lavish “state visit-plus” to Beijing. He also came home ...

The fifth generation

Telecoms Huawei’s rare board reshuffle stokes succession rumours

How long does it take to breed a wolf into a domesticated dog? The answer is many millennia if the results of recent scientific experiments are to be ...

Aviation Gategroup’s IPO setback casts shadow on HNA

A year after the carrier Swissair filed for bankruptcy in 2001 it sold its profitable inflight catering business Gategroup and ground-handler Swissport ...

Payment declined

Banking & Finance Walmart cuts off Alipay after forging deal with Tencent

On March 15 shoppers at Walmart’s Chengdu stores were greeted by a sign informing them of a change to how they could pay. On the list: Unionpay, ...

M&A Fonterra troubled by another Chinese partner

There were mixed reactions when the world’s biggest milk supplier Fonterra announced in late 2014 its second dealmaking foray in China by investing ...

Death of a salesman

Auto Industry Tencent seems set to take the wheel in second-hand car shake-up

The suits are loud and the hard sell never stops until customers open their wallets. Such is the stereotype of the second-hand car salesman (always a ...

Who’s Hu Li Yinan is an example of how early success is not…

Getting started Born in 1970 in Hunan’s Changsha, Li began making headlines when he was 15. He was one of the 23 whiz kids to ...

China Consumer Size matters for China’s biggest soy sauce maker

Alongside salt, vinegar and sugar, soy sauce is one of the most important and heavily used seasonings in Chinese cuisine. While its precise origin is ...

Two jobs at a time

Chinese Character Meet Guo Shuqing, the new ‘super regulator’ for Chinese finance

In the summer of 1944, more than 700 policymakers from 44 countries met for more than two weeks at a plush hotel in Bretton Woods. They had a single ...

Primed for the Pacific

Entertainment Chinese product placement reaches new heights in Legendary’s new film

Before Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro won Best Director at the Oscars for The Shape of Water, his love affair with movie monsters was ...

Meet the parents

Planet China In a country as big as China many extraordinary things occur.…

In a country as big as China many extraordinary things occur. This one was first reported by a CCTV programme called Legal Lectures and has ...

Banking on biotech

Sino-File “Do I lose sleep? Yes I do, because the last thing…

HKEx chief executive Charles Li on the wave of pre-revenue biotech companies from China that will be permitted to list on Hong Kong’s stock exchange. ...

Plunging towards Earth

Cartoons Plunging towards Earth

The prospects of an out-of-control Chinese space lab falling to earth have preoccupied segments of the Hong Kong and Taiwanese media for several ...

Time to cover up

And Finally Tattoos targeted by Chinese authorities

David Beckham is covered with them, but next time he visits China he might have to keep his tattoos hidden from view. That’s because the ...