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WiC 437 (Jan 18, 2019)

Setting up a harbour defence

Shipping, Talking Point Hong Kong’s powerful port conglomerates have formed a super-alliance

Even the fiercest business rivals can be ready to talk when the common challenges are big enough. Hong Kong’s Whampoa Dock and Taikoo Dockyard ...

Not much to smile about

China Consumer Fashion house’s Chinese New Year ad campaign baffles locals

For retailers, the Lunar New Year is a time when the culture of gift-giving reaches its peak. Most luxury brands put out products that commemorate that ...

Fifteen seconds of fame

Internet & Tech What makes Bytedance’s Douyin so invincible in the short-video market?

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships ...

Malaysian malaise

Belt and Road More negative headlines for China’s BRI

“Light is good from whatever lamp it shines,” is the advice of a Chinese proverb. But a small group behind Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative ...

Energy & Resources Brewing scandal over ‘missing’ court documents

The coal business is often a dirty one, its critics contend. And that is the view again from China this winter as air quality worsens. Adding to the ...

The host with the most

Auto Industry China welcomes Tesla founder as the clock starts ticking on local…

Two months, two executives and two very different business trips. In the first trip in December, Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou ...

Reach for the stars

China Consumer How brands are tapping into fandom to fuel sales

His face adjourns advertisements in China promoting goods from Beats and Bulgari through to more affordable brands like Xiaomi and McDonald’s. ...

Download for deductions

Economy Why an innovative new government app has spooked landlords

The origin of the phrase ‘daylight robbery’ was likely the window tax introduced in eighteenth century Britain. At the time the levy was seen as a ...

Single-minded ladies

Entertainment New reality show highlights fathers’ angst over unmarried daughters

Last year, a mother’s letter to her daughter went viral on Chinese social media. In it, she explained why she wouldn’t rush her daughter into ...

Society As China's population peaks, a new scheme to boost births

How to get Chinese women to have more children? That is the challenge facing the central government in Beijing as it braces itself for another slowdown ...

Trump’s wall of Chinese supporters

Ask Mei Takeaways from a survey of Chinese in America

As the US federal government suffers the longest shutdown in its history, I did a survey among my Chinese friends on their views on the reason for the ...

Hebei’s new enigma

Planet China The Sphinx is being destroyed. However, Egyptologists need not worry. The…

The Sphinx is being destroyed. However, Egyptologists need not worry. The original in Giza remains intact and the Sphinx in question is a copy in the ...

Keeping things private

Sino-File “We’re not a public company. We don’t care so much about…

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei hosted an impromptu press event in Shenzhen on Monday in which he reiterated that his company had never spied for the ...

First class, at bargain rates

Cartoons First class, at bargain rates

Turning left on a Cathay Pacific aircraft got considerably cheaper in recent weeks, as its online flight booking systems offered first class tickets at ...

Give us a break

And Finally Viewers are vexed by ‘embedded ads’ in TV shows

Think of a popular historical television drama in recent years. Downton Abbey, perhaps, or Outlander. Now imagine that mid-way through an ...