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WiC 412 (Jun 8, 2018)

Following the flows

Banking & Finance, Talking Point China’s A-shares have arrived at MSCI – which are favourites for…

Less than a year after the Shanghai Stock Exchange launched with fits and starts in late 1991, the Chinese government began preparing to open the stock ...

Jack’s money machine

Internet & Tech Is Ant Financial worth $150 billion?

Does the world’s largest fintech company deserve a valuation which is half that of the world’s largest bank? For that is what Ant Financial has ...

Celebrity billing

Entertainment Acting superstar Fan Bingbing has her taxes probed

When director Feng Xiaogang released Cell Phone 15 years ago, the low-budget film about infidelity went on to become the biggest surprise of the year, ...

New lease of life

Property Vanke in 10-year apartment rental offer

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? That may seem like an ambitious question for younger people but in China it is a query that prospective renters ...

Valuable rubbish

Environment New crackdown on smuggling waste into China

Che Zhongqing can tell you a thing or two about the price of rubbish. For more than 10 years she has collected waste paper, plastic and metals from ...

Pass the parcel

Logistics Alibaba and JD unveil delivery robots

Self-driving vehicles have been generating a lot of buzz, but much of it for the wrong reasons. Back in March, an experimental Uber vehicle, operating ...

M&A Home furnisher Qumei makes $630 million bid

Age cannot wither them – to paraphrase Shakespeare’s line about Cleopatra. Statues made in Ancient Greece pre-date the Egyptian queen by 500 years ...

Corporate Q&A Shenzhen pioneer discusses how fast AI is catching on in China

A steady flow of stories in the Chinese press has signalled that the era of artificial intelligence is advancing quickly in the world’s most populous ...

Default setting

Banking & Finance Why bond market risks are on the rise

Two years, two very different endangered species. In late 2017, Chinese entrepreneur He Qiaonv pledged to give $1.5 billion of her fortune to protect ...

Older rich guy seeks girl

Society Sugar Daddy service Seeking Arrangement pulled in China

For a brief period in May it looked like China’s professional ‘mistresses hunters’ were going to be in the money. That’s because Seeking ...

Call the delivery man

Planet China Called Lieferheld in German and featuring a muscular mascot in Superman-style…

Called Lieferheld in German and featuring a muscular mascot in Superman-style outfit, Delivery Hero is the global leader in food delivery with nearly ...

Wadi or paddy field?

Cartoons Wadi or paddy field?

Who says nothing grows in the desert? Not Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, known domestically as the "father of hybrid rice”, who is developing a ...

Sino-File “Despite claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapons systems…

US Defence Secretary James Mattis says China’s deployment of missiles on disputed islands in the South China Sea is designed to intimidate ...

The secret’s trout

And Finally A third of China’s salmon isn’t quite what it seems

Thanks to a history of product quality scandals, many consumers in China believe that higher-quality food is imported. So when state broadcaster CCTV ...