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WiC 448 (Apr 12, 2019)
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People with influence
China Consumer, Internet & Tech, Talking Point China’s e-commerce sector is increasingly being driven by KOL ‘influencers’

In the true-story movie Joy, an inventor-housewife played by Jennifer Lawrence goes on a television-shopping network to peddle her Miracle ...

Frozen out
M&A State shareholder cuts its stake in air-con giant

In imperial China, the emperor always had to watch his back, making sure that none of his court could make a play for his throne. In a more ...

Nespresso’s newest rival
China Consumer Saturnbird takes aim at China’s $150 billion coffee market

The world’s first water-soluble ‘instant’ coffee was patented in Britain in 1771. It did not prove very popular until the First World War when ...

Classroom tests
China and the World Chinese students finding it harder to get US visas

Until recently Wang Da was a PhD student at the University of Texas at Dallas. But he hasn’t been able to get a visa to return to the US since a trip ...

Catch me if you can
Economy Local tycoons unsettled as Hong Kong tries to change extradition rules…

Exiled former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his family have been spotted in Hong Kong from time to time. Last month, the billionaire was ...

Digital silk road
Internet & Tech After WeChat’s setback, Bytedance and Bigo are making inroads in India

Soon after clocking off work as a kitchen hand in Delhi, 20 year-old Chote Paswan grabs his mobile phone and starts to broadcast social media updates ...

A question of capacity
Economy Japanese firms leave China, but supply chains are set for a…

When Sony first set up shop in China in 1996, globalisation was in full swing and the world was getting to grips with an exciting new technology called ...

Still behind bars
Banking & Finance ‘Fake’ news on Gome founder sees stock spike 22%

On the first day of April in 2016, Xinhua announced that there would be no attempt at April Fool’s Day tomfoolery on its watch, in line with a ...

The mighty weed
Healthcare Meet the PLA-linked company that’s soared on China’s cannabis craze

Whoopi Goldberg has a product line of body balm that’s derived from it. Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness platform Goop has also added its stamp of ...

On the rebound
Society Megastar Fan Bingbing seeks comeback after terrible 2018

Since the tax evasion scandal that saw Fan Bingbing and her related companies pay over Rmb833 million ($123.97 million) in fines, the actress has kept ...

On camera, but between acts
Entertainment Reality show on celebs and their agents makes waves

On 27 March 1941, a day before she committed suicide, Virginia Woolf wrote to her publisher requesting he defer the release of Between the ...

No love lost
Planet China For many fathers one of the toughest days of their lives…

For many fathers one of the toughest days of their lives is when their daughter goes on a first date. But according to Pear Video that day could be ...

Grave issue
Cartoons Grave issue

The three-day weekend around last Friday’s Tomb Sweeping Day was a busy period for families across China. Also known as the Qingming Festival, the ...

Fink about China
Sino-File “If anything the Chinese are looking for greater participation of global…

Larry Fink, CEO of fund management giant BlackRock, tells shareholders in his annual letter that his ambitions in China have not been curtailed by ...

Belt, Road… and wigs
And Finally How Xuchang became China’s top hair exporter to Africa

There is a harrowing scene in the recent BBC adaptation of Les Miserables where the beautiful Fantine – played by Lily Collins – is forced ...

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