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WiC 414 (Aug 15, 2019)

What’s the goal?

Sport, Talking Point How China is bankrolling the World Cup in Russia

Moscow 1980 turned out to be one of the most expensive Olympic Games in history and the event also proved to be disastrous for the Russians, both ...

Trade hawks ascendant

China and the World A wild week in Sino-US relations as trade tensions spill over…

Donald Trump doesn’t like the media much and the Chinese newspapers returned the sentiment in spades last weekend after news that he would levy ...

Less brotherly love

Media & Gaming Investors spooked by Huayi share pledge

Shortly before Jia Yueting’s empire started to unravel last year, the founder and largest shareholder of technology and media group LeEco pledged ...

Russian roulette

Energy & Resources Netizen concern over nuclear deal with Moscow

When a reactor blew up at Chernobyl in April 1986, the Russian authorities sent in firemen with shovels to clear radioactive debris from the plant’s ...

In need of a boost

China Consumer Flagging energy drink maker Jianlibao revives two-decades-old IPO plan

One of the more poignant scenes in Zhang Yimou’s Not One Less, a movie that depicts rural poverty in 1990s China, is a portrayal of 26 children ...

China Consumer A bakery chain battles an ‘impostor’ over the use of its…

A bun stuffed with mayonnaise and heaped with pork floss may not sound like much of a delicacy, and much less a dish that became an internet sensation. ...

Blame us, Donald

China and the World New book says Republicans key to China’s rise

As Donald Trump talks up tariffs aimed at reducing his country’s trade deficit with the Chinese, a new book tells the story of how Trump’s ...

Student affairs

Entertainment A Chinese college drama – set in the US – becomes…

While many of the stereotypes surrounding Chinese studying overseas have focused on them being quiet, nerdy and good at maths, there is a new ...

Prove that proverb!

World of Weibo Prove that proverb!

In a week headlined by President Trump’s historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, it was another Trump that “exhausted the brain cells ...

The dawn of civilisation

Society Local archaeologists claim China dates back 5,800 years

The Chinese often claim to be home to one of the oldest civilisations in the world, if not the oldest continuous one. Now, they say they have the ...

Hearts and minds

Economy Alibaba and Tencent join the effort to woo younger Hongkongers

Hong Kong’s sovereignty returned to China in 1997 but the Chinese government has found it hard to convince some Hongkongers, especially the younger ...

Grandpa goes rogue

Planet China An incident at a kindergarten in Guiyang has rapidly become China’s…

An incident at a kindergarten in Guiyang has rapidly become China’s most famous accidental kidnapping. Involving a six year-old boy, an errant ...

Turning to tech

Sino-File “He wants to train Malaysians to produce things to be exported…

* Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad talking about Jack Ma, after the Alibaba founder opened an office in Kuala Lumpur this month and visited ...

Macau’s mogul retires

Cartoons Macau’s mogul retires

Blood is supposed to be thicker than water, or that is what Stanley Ho must be hoping, after the gambling magnate finally retired as chairman and ...

Relatively awful

And Finally Einstein’s diaries show anti-Chinese sentiment

Albert Einstein was riding the Peak Tram in Hong Kong on the day he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1922. But he was in Shanghai when he ...