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WiC 409 (May 18, 2018)

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Will MSCI’s inclusion of A-shares be overshadowed by trade war tensions?

If US President Donald Trump really wants a full-blown trade war with China, Wall Street investors are not yet feeling the pinch. Take the Dow Jones ...

Internet & Tech Is China’s most profitable internet firm still capable of innovating?

After a market research firm reported earlier this month that short video app Douyin was the most downloaded non-game app in Apple’s App Store in the ...

Rogues’ gallery

Economy A slew of business executives have been arrested or jailed in…

What do a nightclub bouncer from Liverpool, a wind farm investor from Sicily, a stockbroker and investment advisor from New York and an insurance ...

Driven to a crisis

Auto Industry Didi Chuxing rocked by passenger’s murder

A wit on Twitter recently coined the phrase “Chabuduo-wellian” to describe artificial intelligence’s security usages in China (chabuduo ...

Healthcare CSPC Pharmaceutical displaces Lenovo in HSI

When it went public in Hong Kong in 1994, CSPC Pharmaceutical Group was known as China Pharmaceutical Group. At that time whenever a firm had ...

Under the radar

Chinese Character Dubbed ‘the Chinese Buffett’, he may be one of China’s richest men

When Google launched its email service in 2004, only people who had been invited to join the network could open Gmail accounts. The invite-only system ...

Thinking inside the box

Corporate Q&A Self-storage is a new but fast-growing sector in China: CMS wants…

People in China are increasingly in need of extra storage space; urbanisation, rising home prices and higher disposable incomes are contributing ...

Shipping A premier China shipyard has just gone bust

Last Sunday China’s first domestically-built aircraft carrier took to the seas, moving out of its anchorage in the northern city of Dalian and into ...

Society New push to help elderly bridge the digital divide

In January, a month before Chinese New Year, a series of photos showing an old man crying on the floor of a Shanghai railway station went viral. He ...

Running on empty

Entertainment A popular TV format has become the latest vehicle for propaganda

Some wondered what motivated tech giant Alibaba to purchase the South China Morning Post (it paid $266 million for the Hong Kong-based English-language ...

Gold Coin Chicken (Jin qian ji)

Fast Food Fatty food born of poverty in the South

This auspicious-sounding dish from China’s south is savoured by some and dreaded by others. Some have called it an artery clogger or a cholesterol ...

Mahathir’s $134 billion threat

Sino-File “What worries us is the amount of money borrowed by the…

Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s newly elected prime minister, says he is not anti-Chinese but he does have reservations about loans such as the $13 ...

Cartoons Football crazy

Arguably Wigan’s biggest claim to fame is that it doesn’t have a pier – but that many think it does because George Orwell named his famed book on ...

Chinese marvels

And Finally Has China finally got the superheroes it deserves?

Marvel Comics first introduced Chinese cartoon characters in the late 1940s when the US was trying to contain communism by backing the Nationalists in ...