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WiC 427 (Oct 5, 2018)

Unfinished business

Property, Talking Point Bad news for developers as China debates whether to scrap ‘presales’…

Most Hongkongers are aware there is an acute concentration of economic power in the hands of a few families in their home city. But in the 1960s – ...

Tanking the rankings

Banking & Finance Why the Oscars for China’s financial analysts were suspended this year

Institutional Investor started in 1967 as a publication telling insider stories from Wall Street. But it was what the magazine did next that defined ...

Getting smarter?

Internet & Tech Tencent implements a major business reshuffle

Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Not last weekend for Tencent, when it announced its first major restructuring for six years. Maybe the idea ...

Sum of its parts

Auto Industry Geely’s suppliers go public with their complaints

The world’s second and third richest car billionaires have been experiencing very contrasting years. On one side is America’s Elon Musk, who ...

Three’s a crowd

China and the World Military row highlights growing Sino-US split

Donald Trump’s touting of his friendship with Xi Jinping has always been tough to fathom, especially at a time when trade tensions have been getting ...

Not the end of the road

M&A, Rail & Infrastructure A comeback for the tycoon who first imagined the ‘Greater Bay…

Jardine House was Hong Kong’s tallest building until 1980 when it was surpassed by the Hopewell Centre in Wanchai. Xu Jiatun, head of the Hong Kong ...

Always be selling

Entertainment Indie film director takes on Golden Week competition to promote movie

Television networks know that nostalgia can be a hit with audiences. The sitcom Will & Grace will make a comeback this year on NBC and the ...

An expensive arrangement

Society New efforts to curtail ‘bride prices’ in rural areas

China has 34 million more men than women – partly the result of a cultural preference for male children, compounded by the One-Child Policy and ...

Energy & Resources How foreign petrol stations will compete in China

Two cars drive into a Gulf Oil filling station. They are 105 years and two continents apart. One driver admires the station’s pagoda-shaped design, ...

Entertainment Actress emerges from three-month detention

In spite of the week-long National Day holiday, China’s tax authorities have been working overtime. On Wednesday they announced that actress Fan ...

Sending a message

Planet China Tencent’s social media app WeChat is now such a feature of…

Tencent’s social media app WeChat is now such a feature of everyday life that the police in Zhenjiang have decided to incorporate it into how they ...

Coffee on the go

Sino-File “I think we’ll overtake them [Starbucks] in store numbers”

Luckin Coffee co-founder Guo Jinyi tells the Financial Times that the app-focused coffee chain will have 2,000 stores by year-end (Starbucks has 3,300) ...

To be or not to be? A Tudor Fuzhou

Cartoons To be or not to be? A Tudor Fuzhou

Is this a replica I see before me? It’s a question that needs to be asked in China, where WiC has profiled some controversial cases of construction ...

And Finally Stock price boosted after tycoon’s wife sends a mooncake message …

For a civilisation whose calendar has long been dictated by the movements of the moon, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important events for ...