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WiC 485 (Mar 5, 2020)

Hard landing in Hainan

Aviation, Talking Point The Covid-19 crisis is pushing HNA Group towards a bigger bailout

The year 2019 brought positive headlines for the Chinese bond market. It marked the first-time sovereign bonds and policy bank debt were included in ...

The pocket doctors

Economy Phones on the front line in containment battle

More than a month since China’s fight against the coronavirus epidemic took centre-stage there are signs that business is steadily creeping back into ...

Musk shoots for the roof

Energy & Resources Tesla eyes China’s solar market for next big growth opportunity

In the Michael Lewis classic Liar’s Poker there is a memorable line about Lewie Ranieri, the buccaneering head of the mortgage bond ...

A payday, at last?

Banking & Finance Mastercard, Oaktree get wider access to China market

Mastercard’s outgoing CEO Ajay Banga has been a guest of US President Donald Trump on various occasions. The most recent was the signing ceremony of ...

Healthcare China ramps up mask production

The merits of facemasks as protection against Covid-19 are debatable. The World Health Organisation’s first-ever TikTok video talked about the ways ...

A glimpse of blue

Environment Virus-hit China sees drastic air pollution drop

Twenty-one of the 30 cities with the dirtiest air in the world are now in India, according to the latest rankings of PM2.5 pollution from IQAir, a ...

Grabbing a bite

China Consumer Pepsi acquisition shows allure of China’s online snack retailers

Cinema operators have been some of the hardest hit businesses during the Covid-19 outbreak. Many have resorted to selling popcorn, soda and other ...

Nursing a grievance

Education New row as children of medical staff get extra points for…

Parents are stressed. Schools are closed and no one knows when important end-of-year exams will take place. Adding to the unsettled mood: late last ...

M&A UK retail giant Tesco sells out of Chinese venture

“The very presence of live wildlife in a food store is a recipe for a human health disaster of epic proportions.” Prophetic words from the ...

Big in Japan, but not Jiangxi

Entertainment Why do Chinese remakes of Japanese hit TV shows always seems…

While many say that acts of kindness – no matter how big or small in monetary terms – can make a difference, China’s netizens do not seem to ...

Sun King no more?

Society Swimmer gets eight-year ban

“You’re a loser. I’m a winner,” scoffed China’s greatest ever swimmer – Sun Yang – to a rival last summer when he’d refused to stand ...

Red Star Freestyle skier gives up US nationality to represent China in Olympics

Who is she? Eileen Gu – also known by her Chinese name, Gu Ailing – was born in 2003 in ...

Olivia’s Cambridge Diary

Society Chinese alumna speak out

The linguistic structure of Chinese Mandarin isn’t exactly favourable for female empowerment. The radical (a component that makes up a character) for ...

Will Cook change recipe?

Sino-File “The question for us is: was the resilience there or not?…

Apple boss Tim Cook discusses with Fox Business Network his firm’s near total reliance on its China supply chain – which has been badly disrupted ...

Catching a killer

And Finally Police make arrest in longstanding murder case, after virus-related test

Did the Nanjing police use the coronavirus to help solve a murder case that had been languishing on their books for 28 years? That’s what the ...