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WiC 407 (May 4, 2018)

Goodbye Mr Chips

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Why TSMC has become a hot topic amid talk of Sino-US…

You suspect that the moment of ‘peak oil’ might have passed when Saudi Arabia says it is diversifying away from the fossil fuel. The Saudis are ...

Hearty addition

Internet & Tech Alibaba has just joined China’s ‘chip war’

It is not quite up there yet with the day that Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak while he was out walking round his neighborhood with a school friend back ...

Bring on the unicorns

Healthcare Good Doctor makes stock market debut as Xiaomi files for Hong…

For a long time companies needed three consecutive years of profit before they could apply for a listing on Hong Kong’s main bourse. This rule was ...

Back to the future

Internet & Tech Hisense has plans for a 5G revival in smartphones

In its advertising campaigns, the television maker Hisense invites customers to “stimulate their senses”. The commercial hasn’t been having the ...

Telecoms Samsung’s market share in China plummets

Xi’an may be best known internationally as home to the Terracotta Warriors, but it’s less well known that the city is also home to some of ...

Part and parcel

Property Can Reits spur government goal of a bigger rental property market?

Throughout its modern history, China has been famed for its mass campaigns, most notably persuading its population to eradicate rats, flies, mosquitoes ...

China Consumer Why South Korean cosmetics are out of fashion

When China and South Korea announced in November that they had agreed to move beyond a year-long stand-off over the latter’s installation of the US ...

Banking & Finance Why a blockchain event in Macau has got widespread attention across…

Investors are sometimes a superstitious lot, so it was surprising that Hong Kong singer G.E.M. was rumoured to be performing her hit single Bubble at ...

Green beginnings

Environment State broadcaster takes on state chemicals firm

On April 16 the Chinese government officially launched its new Ministry of Ecology and Environment – a larger, more powerful version of the former ...

The network effect

China and the World Bankers from Saudi Arabia, Singapore and UK discuss China trade flows

Trade friction between China and the United States has been a feature of the first four months of the year, with the threat of billions of dollars of ...

A stream of talent

Entertainment Relief in Seoul as Tencent renews spending on Korean TV formats

After Beijing and Seoul agreed to dial down their dispute over the deployment of the THAAD missile defence system (see WiC357 for the background to the ...

Planet China Incidents related to China’s public toilets rank among the most frequently…

Incidents related to China’s public toilets rank among the most frequently covered topics in this column. But we have never written about a child ...

Bigger and better: China’s AI dream

Sino-File “Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler…

Comments cited from Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an article about AI (artificial intelligence) in the Financial Times this week. A Silicon Valley ...

Cartoons Water bed

Fosun has an answer for those bored by traditional hotel suites: attach a floor-to-ceiling view of an aquarium with 100,000 marine animals. This can be ...

Cartoon villain

And Finally Peppa Pig in trouble after gangster makeovers

To most families around the world, Peppa Pig is a sweet cartoon character, whose greatest vice is occasionally jump in puddles. But in China she is ...