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WiC 494 (May 8, 2020)

Duan Yongping delivers?

Logistics, Talking Point A new ‘dark horse’ with OPPO links shakes up China’s courier…

In the 1990s there were more than 30 Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong. The local consensus was that such a tiny market could house no more new ...

Saving, not spending

Aviation Don’t count on ‘revenge spending’ to get the economy going again…

The combination of a record-breaking day for French fashion house Hermès, news of Tesla’s best Chinese sales in the month of March, and reports of a ...

Destination unknown

Aviation More flights in China, but only on domestic routes

Warren Buffett called time on the airline world last weekend after dumping his stakes in the four major carriers in the United States at a heavy ...

Digging a deep hole

Energy & Resources Will the row over a gold mine derail relations with Papua…

A lot of the world’s Chinatowns are older than the People’s Republic of China itself, but not the one in Port Moresby, the sprawling capital of ...

Prices too good to be true?

China Consumer New e-commerce site launches with fanfare and criticism

In 2017 Alibaba’s Taobao was found to have at least 240,000 vendors that were selling fake goods. Its rival Pinduoduo was also forced to remove more ...

Get with the programme

Internet & Tech More of China’s business bosses jump on the livestreaming bandwagon

Liang Jianzhang is not a typical influencer. At 13, he programmed a computer to compose a five-character quatrain, a form of classical Chinese poetry. ...

A breath of fresh air

Ask Mei New York Times virus specialist has a different take on China's…

Having started my career as a video journalist at CNN in Atlanta in the 1990s, I have always held a favourable view of the mainstream Western press, ...

Entertainment deficit

Entertainment Troubled times at studio Beijing Culture and across the film industry

China’s Labour Day holidays, in the first week of May, is traditionally one of the busiest for moviegoing. Last year, Disney and Marvel’s ...

China Consumer Plant-based meat on the rise in China as KFC and Starbucks rejig…

KFC’s menus in China are an excellent indicator of some of the particular tastes of the moment. Examples include the offal that was being served as a ...

Internet & Tech Tencent takes back control as it ousts China Literature team

Big is often beautiful in the corporate world and all the more so in moments of crisis. That’s feeding into expectations for Tencent’s latest ...

No stopping, online shopping

Sino-File “More people in China are using e-commerce than they were before…

Laxman Narasimhan, CEO of Dettol and Lysol maker Reckitt Benckiser, discusses the impact of the coronavirus on Chinese consumers. “People are going ...

The final chapter

And Finally More bad feeling at Dangdang as founding couple’s nasty divorce drags…

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos separated from his wife MacKenzie last year they tried to keep the divorce civil, despite the huge sums at stake. There ...