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WiC 410 (May 25, 2018)

Internet & Tech, Sport, Talking Point Thanks to Tencent the eSports industry is one of the fastest…

With the gaokao, China’s make-or-break college entrance exam, just a few weeks away, a high school teacher decided to lighten things up by ...

Telecoms Coolpad sues Xiaomi ahead of its jumbo IPO

The expression lanluhu, means literally ‘the tiger that stands in the way’, and is often associated with robbery. That connotation was ...

Economy Negotiating teams call for a break on the march towards trade…

Global markets were cheered last Saturday by news that Beijing and Washington are putting tariffs on hold as they try to reach a deal in the trade row ...

China and the World Jack Ma tours Israel and Jordan with a retinue of 35…

Chinese internet giant Alibaba’s executive chairman Jack Ma once liked to call himself CEO, by which he meant “chief education officer”. Such a ...

Healthcare, Logistics SF Express sets out to prove Jack Ma wrong as it…

"Many logistics firms have gone public. But I could not see any difference in them before and after their listings, except [their bosses] becoming one ...

China Consumer Teething trouble for the next generation of shops

The biggest myth about China’s new unmanned stores is that they don’t require any people to operate. Take a recent case from Tianjin, where ...

Entertainment Fans are shocked by rude language in Jay Chou’s latest song

When a woman from Wuhan fell into a coma last year her unexpected route back to consciousness came courtesy of the music of Jay Chou. The 24 ...

Society ‘Big-Hearted Mama’ nabbed by police in orphan case

In Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist, Fagin takes in street urchins only to exploit them as pickpockets. In a scandal involving an ...

Conferences Where is the Chinese economy heading after 40 years of reform?

China’s economy is on the cusp of another rapid transformation and the changes could be almost as dramatic as the period that launched the country ...

Healthcare Shares of Viagra’s China alternative soar then plummet

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer discovered its solution to erectile dysfunction (ED) by accident. According to company legend, Pfizer was investigating the ...

Internet & Tech Can ARM’s new joint venture bolster China’s chip ambitions?

A lot has been written about the famous ‘invisible hand,’ which the Scottish economist, Adam Smith, described to illustrate his belief that the ...

Internet & Tech China’s equivalent of SpaceX

He bills himself as China’s answer to Elon Musk and last week, Shu Chang achieved his ambition of leading the first Chinese company to launch a ...

Internet & Tech Techno-nationalists target former champion Lenovo

In the 1980s Japanese manufacturers were clobbering their American competitors. Books like Japan as Number One by Harvard professor Ezra Vogel ...

Planet China Hong Kong singer Jackie Cheung has long been known by his…

Hong Kong singer Jackie Cheung has long been known by his fans as ‘the God of Singing’. Now China’s media has given him a new monicker: the ...

Sino-File “This is, I believe, the beginning of what will ultimately be…

Arnold Donald, CEO of Carnival (owner of cruise lines Cunard and P&O), tells the Financial Times that a late night Scotch and a club sandwich in ...

Cartoons Captain Liu to the rescue

In 2009 a US Airways plane struck a flock of geese and had to make an emergency landing on New York’s Hudson River. Captain Chesley Sullenberger ...

And Finally Sichuan official snared after wife’s comments

It’s eight years since a drunk driver on the Hebei University campus tried to evade arrest for killing a woman in an accident by shouting “Sue me ...