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WiC 441 (Feb 22, 2019)
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Bay watch
Economy, Talking Point GBA blueprint is unveiled and promises the world’s most dynamic zone

The rankings of the world’s top ‘bay area’ economies have long featured three main contenders. San Francisco’s claim to fame is its ...

A ticking timebomb?
Banking & Finance China Minsheng Investment’s default rattles bond investors

The world is witnessing the birth of a new type of sugar daddy. That is according to one of the world’s most famous bond fund managers, Mohamed ...

Skin in the game
Internet & Tech Why Megvii may be a company to watch over the next…

Last week a Dutch security researcher discovered that SenseNets, a facial recognition company that worked for the Chinese police, has been monitoring ...

Goodwill hunting, the sequel
Economy Changes in accounting rules add to an explosive earnings season

Modern accounting defines goodwill as an intangible asset created when a company purchases another firm for a price higher than its book value. Back ...

Turkish undelight
China and the World Erdogan’s China quandary resurfaces

It was the moment many had been waiting for – a major Muslim country blasting China for its internment of up to a million Uighurs in the western ...

Reddit goes red
Internet & Tech Tencent buys into US chat site with 330 million active users

Tencent’s grip on WeChat has given it a powerful launchpad into Chinese social media but it now faces a new challenges from its younger rival ...

Stronger stuff
Energy & Resources China’s top steelmakers return to growth mode

Among older Chinese there is a traditional view that only a few special birthdays should be celebrated. The most important is the 60th because ...

Frozen assets
China Consumer Hong Kong’s Wanchai Ferry stands tall amid African swine fever outbreak…

The African swine flu epidemic continues to spread across China. The major livestock production province Shandong reported new cases of the contagion ...

Not so fresh-faced
Healthcare Concerns about cosmetic craze among teens

About half of the East Asian population is said to have ‘double eyelids’, or a naturally occurring crease of the skin over the eyes. So when the ...

Holiday blues
Entertainment Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan blockbusters prove lunar new year flops

The notion of he sui pian, or a Chinese New Year Film, first came about in 1997 when filmmaker Feng Xiaogang’s Party A, Party B set ...

Farewell to a China expert
Ask Mei Roderick MacFarquhar passed away at 88

When I got the news that Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science, and formerly Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese ...

Bargain hunting
M&A Suning takes over Wanda’s department stores

The newly opened Yanjiyou bookstore in Xi’an is fighting the trend to buy online. Stocking over 130,000 titles in a double-storied building of ...

Fed up
Planet China In Hong Kong there is a noodle shop near WiC’s office.…

In Hong Kong there is a noodle shop near WiC’s office. It is on a quiet street and to the untrained eye does not look particularly special. But come ...

More GM, please
Sino-File “China’s corn yield is over 40% below that of North America.…

Syngenta CFO Mark Patrick tells the South China Morning Post that the “Chinese government is very carefully considering all the pros and cons of GM ...

Raising the red flag
Cartoons Raising the red flag

Welcome to the “biggest city you’ve never heard of” declared Jeremy Clarkson in last Friday’s episode of his Amazon Prime show The Grand ...

Off the map
And Finally Why foreign firms might want to avoid mapmaking in China

A “map smuggling ring” sounds like something from a bygone era: perhaps from the time the Jesuits or the British weren’t allowed beyond Chinese ...

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