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WiC 442 (Mar 1, 2019)

My way or the Huawei

China and the World, Talking Point, Telecoms Has Europe become the key battleground for the Chinese giant’s 5G…

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is still the world’s most important tech fair but for people in the telecoms sector the biggest event on ...

Trial by television

Economy Why private sector business owners are worried

A court case in Shaanxi earned widespread attention last month following a senior judge’s complaints that government officials were meddling in the ...

Bricks not clicks

Property Bytedance buys cursed mall; JD an old hotel

A Red Guard; a poet and philanthropist; even a mountain trekker. But Huang Nubo, founder of Beijing Zhongkun, was best known as a property developer ...

Why did Ding ring Jeff?

Internet & Tech NetEase and Amazon in talks to merge cross-border e-commerce units

In a recent episode of his car show The Grand Tour Jeremy Clarkson pointed out that Buckingham Palace was no longer the top UK attraction for ...

Box office wonder

Media Another hit for the studio behind some of China most successful…

‘Rags to Riches’ and ‘Voyage and Return’ are two of the commonest plots in the movie industry. There is a well-trodden plot for Chinese ...

Money in the bank

Banking & Finance Alibaba follows Tencent with CICC investment

It can often be hard to keep up with the changes in China’s financial services industry, not least due to the rise and fall of the shadow banking ...

Game for a laugh

Economy Liu He titters, but Trump says a trade deal is closer…

Press conferences held in Donald Trump’s Oval Office tend to be lively affairs. Case in point was a televised gathering last Friday where Trump ...

China Consumer, Who’s Hu From oyster sauce to healthcare empire

There is an old Chinese saying that “wealth does not last beyond three generations”. But the adage clearly does not apply to the Lee family behind ...

A higher calling

Telecoms Vivo adds a new premium phone brand

Wendell Smith introduced the theory of ‘targeted marketing’, writing in a 1956 essay: “Market segmentation involves viewing a heterogeneous ...

“No divergence” says MBS

China and the World Saudi crown prince gets a warm welcome in Beijing as he…

Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s two holiest cites: Mecca and Medina, both visited by millions of pilgrims every year. So you might think its crown ...

Society Beijing’s pensioners get their skates on

In the midst of the Beijing winter, 81 year-old Zhao Jianru starts every day the same way. He gets out of bed at 5am, does some stretches, eats a ...

Rockets at the ready

Entertainment Tencent’s latest hit TV show sees its girl band go on…

Back in 2017, E!, the cable network owned by NBCUniversal, inked a three-year contract with the Kardashian-Jenner family to keep the world’s most ...

Planet China Facial recognition is being adopted across many areas of life in…

Facial recognition is being adopted across many areas of life in China: from paying for fast food and boarding high-speed trains through to catching ...

Time to drop anchors…

Cartoons Time to drop anchors…

Mention CNN and the faces of its top news anchors will spring to mind. But could artificial intelligence render their role obsolete? Xinhua news ...

Chile warms up to China

Sino-File “Chinese investment is going to start growing strongly”

Cristian Rodriguez Chiffelle, a director with InvestChile, discusses with the Financial Times the arrival of 200 Chinese-made Yutong electric buses in ...

And Finally An office romance costs a couple Rmb4.8 billion

When it comes to Valentine’s Day gestures, posting wedding day photos on social media is a touching yet commonplace occurrence. For Liu Liang, the ...