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WiC 419 (Jul 27, 2018)

Healthcare, Talking Point The most talked about topic in China right now is a…

The Happy Dairy Commune was established in 1956 in a village in Hebei’s Shijiazhuang. It initially had 32 cows. Its long-serving chairwoman Tian ...

The secret’s out

China Consumer Victoria’s Secret to face off with a Chinese rival advised by…

A gap in Hong Kong’s retail landscape was filled last week when Victoria’s Secret finally opened one of its flagship stores in the city (Shanghai ...

The great soccer scam

Auto Industry Buffett’s BYD and Arsenal football club are fooled by a fraudster

Most fans know the north London football club Arsenal as the Gunners but some supporters prefer the Gooners, a nickname said to derive from a group of ...

Property Shanghai banks are first to get access to a nationwide property…

It is not a coincidence that the widespread closures of peer-to-peer lending platforms in China, totalling 721 in the first half, were concentrated in ...

China Consumer Ofo rolls back overseas operations

“Presence first, profits second” summarises the mindset of much of China’s sharing economy. For example, Didi and Uber’s China unit both ...

Beware railway shares?

Rail & Infrastructure After seven years, the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train could IPO

Passengers do better out of high-speed rail than investors, it seems. The backers of bullet trains argue they pay their way by benefiting the wider ...

Taking its toll

China Down Under How a chat with a taxi driver hints at tensions in…

“What is your country?” my taxi driver in Beijing asked me. “Australia,” I replied. That was all the driver needed. Why is Australia so ...

Who’s Hu The engineer who built China’s latest e-commerce sensation Pinduoduo

When most people could not imagine breaking Alibaba’s stronghold in China’s e-commerce market, Huang Zheng, also known by the English name Colin, ...

The tyranny of trash

Environment Authorities flag plan to help cities escape a ‘garbage siege’

Online shopping, meal delivery services and takeaway drinks. As consumer trends change in China, so does the amount of garbage that the country ...

Environment Cockroaches to solve China’s kitchen waste problem?

The Chinese produce some 60 million tonnes of kitchen waste a year. Some of it is burnt, some is composted, but most ends up in landfills where it ...

Entertainment A bad week for Alibaba as two of its entertainment projects…

Originally billed as “a triumph that the entire world will adore for years to come”, Asura was supposed to be the smash hit of the summer. ...

The hearing test

Planet China “You snooze, you lose” is a familiar motivational phrase but netizens…

“You snooze, you lose” is a familiar motivational phrase but netizens in China have coined a derivative: “you sneeze, you lose”. That newer ...

Interbanking agent

Sino-File “We are not rivals to the banks; we are not predators;…

WeBank’s chief information officer Henry Ma tells the Financial Times that its business model does not seek to disintermediate banks. The loans the ...

Facing the future

Cartoons Facing the future

At the beginning of this year few people would have associated a prominent Hong Kong pop star with advances in facial recognition technology. However, ...

Into extra time

And Finally France’s World Cup win has had commercial consequences in China

The final whistle was blown at the World Cup in Russia two weeks ago but the off-field commercial battles in China are lasting much ...