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WiC 416 (Jul 6, 2018)

Renaissance man

Banking & Finance, Talking Point The investment firm behind a herd of China’s unicorns heads for…

Private equity firms usually prefer to operate behind the scenes. So it was a surprise when Blackstone Group, one of the sector’s most influential ...

Entertainment, Society How an online talent show boosted Unilever’s toothpaste sales by 268%

The massively popular reality competition Produce 101 has finished, but the controversy has just begun. The show, which has accumulated ...

House in the country

Chinese Models Will Country Garden’s focus on smaller cities (and Malaysia) pay off?

For most of its existence, US retail giant Walmart was lauded for its low prices, astonishing logistical abilities and frugal corporate culture. While ...

Stars in their eyes

Banking & Finance, Healthcare Yestar to IPO on the back of plastic surgery craze

Two actresses climbed the celebrated steps at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One was Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous stars. The other ...

Into deep water

China and the World China’s fishing fleet targets long-distance catch

By 2020 China’s homegrown satellite navigation system Beidou should cover the globe. That’s good news for the country’s fishermen, who are ...

Primed for production?

Auto Industry Evergrande deal gives electric carmaker Faraday a new lease of life

“I think we just became a real car company” was the message from Elon Musk last Sunday as Tesla finally hit its target of making 5,000 of its ...

Mind your language

World of Weibo Mind your language

The quest to unify China’s language began during the Qin Dynasty (221-206BC), when the emperor standardised its written characters. When the Chinese ...

Auto Industry Why a 1% stake in Volkswagen’s China JV offers Audi a…

It’s an all too familiar tale and one that WiC has relayed many times over the years. A company’s long-standing boss is arrested and thrown in jail ...

Internet & Tech Bytedance and Tencent accuse each other of smear campaigns

The notion of “dark public relations” gained prominence following Edward Snowden’s revelations about the global surveillance programmes used by ...

Planet China She fell in love with football eight years ago thanks in…

She fell in love with football eight years ago thanks in large part to David Beckham. So when the World Cup began last month a 22 year-old Miss Zou was ...

Taking a uniform approach

Cartoons Taking a uniform approach

Founded in 1921, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will celebrate its centenary in three years time. The anniversary has ignited a boom in so-called ...

Policing the Belt and Road policy

Sino-File “The corruption situation is very serious in some countries. Bribery is…

Simon Peh warns of corruption in many of the countries hosting Belt and Road projects. The head of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against ...

Glow with the flow

And Finally Chinese firm claims to have invented a rifle that fires laser…

When cinemagoers saw Star Wars in the late 1970s, one of the great revelations was the replacement of bullets with lasers – both the ...