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WiC 478 (Jan 10, 2020)

On track for profit

Rail & Infrastructure, Talking Point China’s best-performing high-speed railway ready to list in Shanghai

Xi Jinping’s New Year greetings listed three engineering marvels from China in 2019: the Beijing Daxing International Airport (see WiC469), the ...

Full stream ahead

Media & Gaming A stake in Universal Music means more muscle for Tencent’s music…

New Year’s Eve is typically a time for fireworks and musical celebration. But for Tencent executives, the end of 2019 was the moment to close a deal ...

Economy What to look out for in the Chinese economy in the…

January 1 is only just behind us, but China’s Lunar New Year festivities are less than three weeks away. Even still 2020 is well underway, with the ...

Heading into traffic

Auto Industry Insurer Baoneng takes over PSA Group’s struggling car plant in Shenzhen

Three years ago Baoneng was denounced as a barbarian barging through the gates of the A-share market, when its unsolicited attempt to acquire Vanke ...

Tok of the town

Internet & Tech Baidu launches lawsuit against punchy rival

It ranks as the world’s seventh most downloaded app of the last 10 years, despite only being launched in 2017. And unlike most of the other Chinese ...

Not ready to share

Banking & Finance Why Chinese brokerages plan an ‘aircraft carrier’

The ‘twenties’ are shaping up to be a pivotal decade for the securities industry in China: one where it will become clear whether the global ...

Local injection

Healthcare China approves its first homegrown HPV vaccines

Researchers at Oxford University are currently developing a therapy that could clear up persistent human papillomavirus (HPV) infections – which are ...

Ming the merciless

Entertainment Costume dramas back in force, but one gets pilloried for historical…

China’s media regulators are difficult to please, with changing views on what constitutes acceptable content, even for TV dramas. In one case it was ...

Healthcare Disease at city market sparks fears of another epidemic

Pneumonia of unknown etiology, or PUE for short, is a worrying diagnosis. It means the sufferer has all the worst symptoms of flu (lung lesions, a ...

Doctors and death

Healthcare Another killing in an increasingly risky profession

By all accounts Dr Yang Wen was a kind and diligent physician. For 22 years she worked in the emergency department of Beijing’s Civil Aviation ...

Red Star First performer of Asian descent winning Golden Globes best actress

Who is she? Born in Queens, New York, to a Chinese father and Korean mother, Nora Lum, 31, ...

Jumping the queue

Planet China Long lines at airport security are a typical scene in the…

Long lines at airport security are a typical scene in the US, especially when first-time travellers are unprepared for the requests to take off their ...

Bloomberg on China

Sino-File “The Chinese, if they’re trying to control what people see, they…

Bloomberg’s eponymous founder Michael Bloomberg tells the Financial Times that the media firm’s terminal business is “growing very rapidly” in ...

Cartoons Musk moves in

Stripping off his jacket, he began what was soon being described as a ‘dad dance’ on Twitter. Video of Elon Musk’s none-too-funky moves were soon ...

And Finally Bruce Lee’s daughter battles a Chinese fast-food chain for using his…

The kung-fu master Bruce Lee did not like the idea of “crystallisation” – by which he meant entrenching stereotypes. Hence he gave his own ...