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WiC 476 (Nov 29, 2019)

Open sesame (once again)

Banking & Finance, Internet & Tech, Talking Point Alibaba goes back to Hong Kong for a secondary listing

The debut of Alibaba’s shares in Hong Kong in November 2007 was a record-smashing moment. The territory’s benchmark Hang Seng Index was already ...

From KOL to KOC

China Consumer Bestselling cosmetics brand Perfect Diary takes a different approach

In China’s thousands of years of history, there have been hundreds of revolts and rebellions. An idiom to describe some of those sudden challenges to ...

Lei’s local launch

Internet & Tech Kingsoft spin-off soars in Shanghai trading debut, in another STAR debut

Funny how life doesn’t turn out the way you think it will. Just ask Lei Jun, one of China’s most famous entrepreneurs. When Lei was planning ...

Beating the benchmark

Banking & Finance Critics urge caution as more Chinese stocks join global indices

Stock market investors wanting to benefit from more exposure to Chinese equities might do well to buy some iron disulfide (pyrite) stones for their ...

Big banks get a telling off

Banking & Finance State Council warns banks not to penalise smaller borrowers

China’s central bank identified 586 lenders and financing firms in the high-risk category in its annual financial stability report, which was ...

Internet & Tech Kuaishou spends big on CCTV’s Spring Festival gala

Super Bowl Sunday is a day when brands pay millions of dollars for the opportunity to make an impression with consumers. The average cost of a ...

Bags of trouble

China and the World Huge haul in Dubai, as shanzhai culture lives on

WiC’s first mention of China’s shanzhai culture was in its inaugural issue in early 2009 – coming a few weeks after the state ...

Youku’s drama mystery

Entertainment Viewers mull why streamer has been delaying episodes of its hit…

Back in April, fans of the historical drama Investiture Of The Gods, starring Deng Lun and Wang Likun, were annoyed to discover that the ...

See you in court

Society Accused claims that his prosecutor is a gangster too

It is the stuff of courtroom dramas – the accused (a gangster) turns the tables on the prosecutor, outing him as the gang’s ultimate ...

My views on Japan, part two

Ask Mei Takeaways from a recent trip to the land of the rising…

Four years ago in this column I explained the love-hate relationship between China and Japan (see WiC288). During my recent trip to Nara and Tokyo – ...

A struggle to convince

Media & Gaming Nasdaq-listed 36Kr looks for ways to prove that news still makes…

Shenzhen-based Ping An Insurance is a sprawling conglomerate. So when an advertisement from its media subsidiary Baobo Information said it was going to ...

Internet & Tech Baidu faces Magi, a new challenger in search

US scientist Vannevar Bush was the first person to come up with the idea of a search engine. In an article published in The Atlantic magazine in 1945, ...

What a way to fail

Planet China Celebrating prematurely has been the undoing of many people throughout history.…

Celebrating prematurely has been the undoing of many people throughout history. Just ask George W Bush about his 2003 “Mission Accomplished” banner ...

In it for the long haul

Sino-File “You cannot get nervous because now we have a market slowdown,…

BASF boss Martin Brudermüller speaks to the Financial Times after breaking ground on the German multinational’s $10 billion petrochemical plant in ...

Concrete solution

Cartoons Concrete solution

Three-dimensional printing is a technology typically associated more with making bespoke dentures or tiny replacement parts for aircraft. However, in ...

Unfinished business

And Finally What Greenland’s Wuhan skyscraper says about the broader economy

Last year 143 buildings over 200 metres in height went up worldwide. The majority of these skyscrapers, 88, were, once again built in China. The ...