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WiC 501 (Jun 26, 2020)

Entertainment, Talking Point The pandemic has devastated the Chinese film industry

Since re-establishing diplomatic ties with the United States in 1978, Chinese film studios hadn’t produced a single film about going to war with ...

Happy June 18th

China Consumer The key takeaways from China’s mid-year shopping festival

On the night of June 18, Li Jiaqi, looking visibly exhausted, announced in a raspy voice on his Taobao Live channel that he would take a week off after ...

Armed and dangerous

Internet & Tech A nasty row at the China unit of Arm Holdings after…

When he declared himself the first emperor of China in 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang knew that he needed to legitimise his claim so he ordered a jade seal ...

Cola giant goes on diet

China Consumer Pepsi eyes a $17 billion market

Back in 2012, when Rob Rhinehart invented Soylent, a milky drink packing 35 nutrients needed for human survival, his mission was to save time and money ...

Points and prizes

Internet & Tech Tencent launches credit scoring scheme

Tycoons like to come out on top. That’s what makes them tycoons in the first place. But Tencent’s Pony Ma just had to settle for less-than-top-spot ...

Leader of the pack

Economy Tetra Pak opens 10 billion unit plant in Hohhot

Which is the most successful foreign brand operating in China today? Elon Musk’s Tesla captures many of the headlines, of course, but it is the ...

A matter of trust

Property China looks set to launch first Reits

When Continental Mortgage Investors became the world’s first real estate investment trust (Reit) to debut on the stock market in 1965, the plan was ...

Healthcare Which two IPOs locked up $19 billion of funds in Hong…

The peg of the Hong Kong dollar to the greenback has been around since 1983. Bears have loudly predicted it will come under strain in the next 18 ...

As if Amazon bought Netflix

Entertainment Tencent set to swoop for iQiyi in bid to stem video…

Content is king in the streaming sector. But it’s expensive too: just look at Netflix’s spending on content, which has grown from $9 billion in ...

University challenge

Sino-File “China’s aid is regionally specific and tends to be defined by…

Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at Oxford University, talks to the Financial Times about reports that China is set to offer 12,000 ...

Marked for life

And Finally Two exam controversies become the talk of China’s internet

Another week and another round of headlines about China’s hugely competitive school and university system. Two stories, both about examination ...