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WiC 463 (Aug 23, 2019)

What next in Hong Kong?

Economy, Talking Point We explore four options for how the city’s protests could play…

Hong Kong lays claim to being one of the safest places to live in the world, making the sudden disintegration of public order this summer all the more ...

Fashion faux pas

China and the World, China Consumer Why luxury brands are apologising to China

China is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest consumer market this year, according to New York-based research firm eMarketer. So it’s ...

Information warfare

Internet & Tech Bytedance launches search engine as Baidu buys more online content

“Competition is a click away” was Google’s response in the early days of the European Commission’s investigation into possible antitrust ...

Banking & Finance Ruihua accounting scandal postpones 60 IPOs

“If any problem is discovered in the accounts books, then the person in charge of administration and accounting and other officials should be liable ...

Let there be light

M&A KKR takes control of NVC’s China business

When private equity firm KKR announced one of its largest ever investments in China this month, it shone new light on an incandescent tale in more ways ...

Riled by the redback

Economy The China-US trade row has escalated into a currency war too

Wars have a habit of breaking out over the summer holidays. Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Israel clashed with Lebanon in late July 2006, and ...

Fortress besieged

Entertainment How a sure-thing blockbuster proved an epic fail and saw director…

If good things come to those who wait, Shanghai Fortress should have been well rewarded. The sci-fi blockbuster cost as much as Rmb400 ...

Society Actresses face sartorial abuse

Are women in China free to wear whatever they want? This was the question being asked on the Chinese internet last week after an online magazine ...

Muji loses mojo

China Consumer Tougher times for Japanese retail brand in China

Back in June, there was news that Miniso, a Muji-lookalike in China that sells a range of no-brand, no-logo lifestyle and household goods, was looking ...

Internet & Tech, Media Tencent’s key division makes swift recovery

More than half of Chinese children and teenagers struggle with nearsightedness, Xinhua declared last year. This problem, it added, relates to the ...

Burning Contention

Planet China The Chinese media is describing it as a most heated debate…

The Chinese media is describing it as a most heated debate – so scorching that it needed a call to the police to break it up. The argument, ...

The sound of silence

Sino-File “I predict China will go black in two to three years…

Jonathan Dowling, a physics professor at Louisiana State University, tells the Washington Post that new quantum communications networks will make it ...

Dunking with the Ducks?

Cartoons Dunking with the Ducks?

Back in 2012 Chinese basketball fans succumbed to a bout of “Linsanity” (see WiC139). The reason was Jeremy Lin, the Chinese-American basketballer ...

The great impostor

And Finally DouYu video streamer banned after her true identity is unveiled

The term “catfish” only became synonymous with forging a fake social networking persona – for the purposes of seduction or nefarious goals – ...