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WiC 508 (Aug 28, 2020)

Renewed scrutiny over dam

Environment, Talking Point After Covid-19, China grapples with the challenges of flood relief

More than two months of torrential rain have created a major crisis along the Yangtze, China’s longest river. Higher up the watercourse in Sichuan, ...

Seeking immunity

Healthcare Chinese firms head the Covid-19 vaccine race with three Phase III…

Smallpox, which caused as many as 300 million deaths in the twentieth century alone, stopped being a threat to humanity in 1979. Its eradication was ...

Heading for home

Chinese Models Beijing touts a new strategy for the economy: relying less on…

Over the past 40 years of economic reforms, Chinese planners have sometimes summed up the country’s development model with four characters: ...

The hottest of properties

Property Beike, a two year-old property platform, is now worth more than…

Chinese real estate agency KE Holdings braved stormy seas to go public in New York. Worsening Sino-US relations have seen American regulators demand ...

China Consumer Tesla furious as e-commerce site discounts its cars

When the world’s biggest companies engage in competing advertising campaigns, it rarely does their brands or financials too much harm: quite the ...

Banking & Finance, GBA The bleak outlook for China’s ATM makers

The automatic teller machine was the greatest banking invention ever, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker once remarked. The first ATM ...

Timely delivery

Logistics E-commerce giant buys KYE to take on Cainiao

When a Shenzhen-based logistics company signed a Hong Kong-born martial arts actor as its brand spokesman in 2015, it probably didn’t realise just ...

Red Star The major-general behind a Chinese coronavirus vaccine

In the jingoistic action flick Wolf Warrior II, China is portrayed as the world’s saviour at almost every turn. There is also a Dr Chen, who ...

Gou’s Apple pie sliced

M&A A second ‘factory girl’ emerges as a Foxconn rival

Published in 2008, Leslie Chang’s Factory Girls is a very readable book about the millions of female migrants who worked long hours in the ...

Turning the tables

Economy Chinese firms take the lead in the Fortune list

Two years before the Standard & Poor’s 500 index was first introduced, investors already had a guide to the biggest businesses in the United ...

Entertainment Peeved actress melts down in her inaugural livestreaming sales pitch

In the past, celebrities fearing that they are past their prime have tried to cash in on the remainder of their influence by appearing in infomercials ...

How Trump “builds our nation”

Ask Mei Why some Chinese deem Donald Trump one of the best US…

Given that Donald Trump has hurled insults, imposed sanctions and talked repeatedly about Chinese responsibility for the Covid-19 pandemic, you might ...

Sino-File “No matter what happens, our overall capital expenditure during this three-year…

Comments made by Yang Jie, chairman of China Mobile, at its interim results briefing last Thursday. The company kept its annual capital expenditure at ...

The digging debate

And Finally Should low income students study archaeology?

By all accounts Zhong Fangrong is a quiet girl who takes solace in her studies. She was born into rural poverty and was raised by her grandparents ...