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WiC 438 (Jan 25, 2019)

Bringing home the bacon

Agriculture, Talking Point Investors hope that the Year of the Pig will see pork…

Pig farming has proved a surprising sideline for some of China’s tech tycoons. Ding Lei’s NetEase was one of the first internet giants to start ...

Say boo to a Goose

China Consumer Canadian clothing brand and NetEase face counterfeit claim

Founded over 60 years ago, Canada Goose has a reputation for coats that keeps you warm in the most extreme climates, like the summit of Mount Everest. ...

A smart way to play 5G?

Internet & Tech Xiaomi’s IPO proved disastrous for investors but tycoon remains defiant

Xiaomi CEO and founder Lei Jun was in a combative mood when he launched the company’s new flagship phone, the Redmi Note 7 on January 10. The ...

Dealers in distress

Auto Industry China’s biggest online car sales platform in crosshairs over fee hike

The English idiom “rubbing salt into the wound” has many equivalents in the Chinese language’s vast vocabulary of ancient phrases. ...

Ren’s mission impossible?

Telecoms Huawei’s battle against ‘the element of doubt’ is a non-stop PR…

Is there a Washington masterplan to frustrate Huawei’s 5G future before it even takes shape? The company is firefighting on various fronts, including ...

The plot thickens

Media & Gaming, Property What’s left of Wanda after a year of brutal deleveraging?

The month of January is so-called ‘nianhui season’ in China. Meaning ‘annual conference’, larger corporates hold company dinners with ...

Ever electric Evergrande

Auto Industry, M&A After Faraday, property giant gets new EV partner

Soon after resolving its conflicts with Faraday Future, a Los Angeles-based start-up (see WiC428), China’s leading real estate developer Evergrande ...

China Consumer Hong Kong’s Vitasoy soaks up fast-growing soymilk sales across the border

Folklore suggests it was Liu An, a prince and an advisor to the emperor during the Han Dynasty, who discovered soymilk when tending to the needs of his ...

The messiest break-up of all

Entertainment, Society Rights and wrongs debated as top actor’s jilted mistress is jailed

Some people sulk or binge-eat after a break-up. Others use being ditched as an excuse to pick up a new hobby. But in China it’s not unknown for for ...

Entertainment Pop icon’s fortieth birthday sparks fan introspection

Pop singer Jay Chou turned 40 last Friday. To mark the milestone, his wife, Taiwanese actress Hannah Quinlivan, sent him on a scavenger hunt that ...

Degrees of weirdness

Planet China Students in Guangxi who sat a compulsory exam paper on ‘Mao…

Students in Guangxi who sat a compulsory exam paper on ‘Mao Zedong Thought’ recently could be forgiven for feeling confused about its ...

Boarish behaviour

Cartoons Boarish behaviour

Most hikers in Hong Kong can tell that the population of wild boars is growing. In fact, the feral beasts have been extending their territory from the ...

Wang reassures Davos

Sino-File “There will be a lot of uncertainties in 2019 but one…

Wang Qishan, China’s vice-president, dismisses Chinese slowdown alarms in a speech this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He said last ...

Identity checks

And Finally McDonald’s ad triggers another tiff over Taiwan

The Chinese translation for a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin is manfubao – or a bun “full of luck”. But a Taiwanese TV ad featuring the ...