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WiC 477 (Dec 6, 2019)

Facing the future

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Chinese firms want to shape facial recognition standards around the world

When Minority Report came out in the summer of 2002, China was home to just 200 million mobile phone users and years away from launching its ...

Show me the money

Banking & Finance Bond defaults rattle investors, especially at firms with cash on the…

In the late 1970s Chinese newspapers were still setting type by hand. In order to print in a language with several thousand characters, more than 20 ...

Workers rise up!

Internet & Tech Chinese tech giants take flak over mistreating employees

After Adam Neumann walked away from WeWork with a severance package of $1.7 billion, plus a consultation fee of $185 million, his staff got less ...

Milking the moment

Banking & Finance Infant milk producer Feihe’s IPO dogged by short-seller attack

Calling out financial skulduggery in Hong Kong is not for the faint-hearted. Dan David, co-founder of GeoInvesting – a due diligence firm that ...

Playing chicken

China Consumer Popeyes aims to catch up with KFC in China

American fried chicken chain Popeyes launched a new chicken sandwich in the summer that sold out within two weeks of its debut. A relaunch in early ...

The blue horizon

Shipping CM Ports looks overseas for growth in M&A push

For the past three years China Merchants Ports Holdings (CM Ports) has been looking for shelter from the storm. Externally, it has been hit by the ...

Platform politics

Internet & Tech Amazon allies with Pinduoduo in latest pairing

Amazon suffered a disappointment in China earlier this year after its plans to acquire e-commerce platform Kaola fell through. But its search for ...

Training its sights

Property Sun Hung Kai in massive bid for West Kowloon site –…

Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has long been a fan of Hong Kong. In 2004 the martial arts star spent HK$80 million ($10 million) on two top-floor ...

How China ‘let it go’ (again)

Entertainment Disney caps stellar year at Chinese box office with Frozen sequel

To drum up interest for Disney’s latest animated movie Frozen 2, the studio teamed up with beautification app Meitu to release a themed ...

A very real risk

Entertainment Are reality shows getting too dangerous after a contestant dies of…

In 2013, Zhejiang Satellite TV produced a diving show called Splash. Adapted from Dutch TV series called Sterren Springen, it followed a group of ...

Society Much-needed debate about domestic abuse, after make-up star speaks out

In her popular online videos make-up artist Yuyamika is bubbly, funny and talented. She transforms herself into John Lennon, the Mona Lisa or Albert ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Education Food friendship with Chinese classmates

A spontaneous decision, fuelled by the need to find a better work-life balance, led me to a house party just north of Jesus Green. Upon arriving, I ...

Hogging the headlines

Planet China A survey by Wealth-X found that 80% of the ultra-wealthy donate…

A survey by Wealth-X found that 80% of the ultra-wealthy donate to educational causes when dishing out their philanthropy. Of course, over the years ...

Banking on Chinese backing

Sino-File “If I need it I will go first to the AIIB.…

Indonesia’s deputy minister for infrastructure affairs Kennedy Simanjuntak tells the Financial Times of his preference for borrowing from the ...

When the ship comes in

Cartoons When the ship comes in

In 1711 the Scott family built their first shipyard in Greenock. For the next couple of centuries the Clyde area would be the epicentre of the global ...

Stars that won’t shine

And Finally Michelin gets another mauling, this time for restaurant rankings in Beijing

One of the best things about living in Beijing is the food. China’s capital has 30,000 restaurants ranging from one-dish noodle joints to ...