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WiC 445 (Mar 22, 2019)

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All roads lead to Rome

Belt and Road, Talking Point Xi Jinping hopes that his trip to Italy will give the…

The sentiment surrounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has soured sharply over the last 18 months with headlines about projects that ...

Super app, super loss

Banking & Finance Should investors be panicked by the red ink at Meituan-Dianping?

Weighed down by a $2 billion loss from unauthorised bets on the forex market, Citic Pacific’s HK$12.7 billion ($1.6 billion) loss in 2008 was one of ...

Patently obvious?

Cross Strait Microsoft sues Foxconn for Android royalties – Huawei might be next

One of the worst kept secrets in the tech world is that Microsoft has amassed hundreds of Android patents (not what you might expect, given that ...

WeChat-isation

Internet & Tech Zuckerberg’s Facebook to copy Chinese rival?

Last November Facebook quietly unveiled a new app called Lasso that allows users to record 15-second videos of themselves dancing and ...

Hard sell

China Consumer Gree turns every single employee into a sales rep

There are no set rules for what makes a great CEO. Excelling at selling stuff certainly helps. Nearly 15% of Fortune 500 bosses started their careers ...

Elon-gate

Auto Industry Tesla cuts prices – and NIO’s shares dive

In China there is a view that he has “infringed consumers’ legal interests” (as one protest banner proclaimed). But back at home in the US, he ...

Class warfare

Society Plagiarism cases reach the pinnacle of Chinese politics

In 2017 when Springer, the publisher of science journal Tumor Biology, retracted 107 papers from Chinese researchers on concerns that their peer ...

Smoke signals

Tobacco China to tighten oversight of e-cigarette business

It was 2001 when Chinese pharmacist Han Li was trying to give up smoking. He tried nicotine skin patches but he missed the sudden chemical hit he got ...

Family values

Entertainment The most talked about TV show in China is about bad…

While it is hardly news that parents will go to great lengths to give their children the best education possible, a major scandal at some of the ...

Well ducked?

China Consumer Short-seller accuses Zhou Hei Ya of inflating sales figures

“I’ll say they’re a fraud, and I’ll short. But when they do go to zero, I win, you all lose,” pronounced Dan David in the documentary The ...

Premium performer

Banking & Finance Bumper profits for Ping An

While food delivery firm Meituan-Dianping shocked investors with the biggest corporate loss in Hong Kong history (see page 9), Ping An Insurance has ...

All the rage

Entertainment Vogue’s choice of Chinese superstar needles netizens

Last week American Vogue unveiled its two April covers, featuring a total of seven “superstars” from around the world, including Scarlett ...

Spiritual standard

Planet China Since it was introduced in 1987 over one million organisations have…

Since it was introduced in 1987 over one million organisations have been certified as ISO 9001 compliant – indicating they have acceptable quality ...

Creating a stir

Cartoons Creating a stir

Tea originates from China, but it was the English who first served it with milk and sugar, a style which later found its way into different parts of ...

Weight watching

Sino-File “It’s impossible to be subject to political influence. The indices are…

Henry Fernandez, the head of MSCI, tells the Financial Times there was “zero politics” in its decision to raise Chinese stocks’ weighting in its ...

An immigrant tale

And Finally Who was the first Chinese to move to the UK?

Occasionally a book comes along that makes you wonder why no one thought to write it before. Barclay Price’s recently published The Chinese in ...

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