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WiC 510 (Sep 11, 2020)

Red alert for real estate

Property, Talking Point How will China’s new credit tightening measures impact Evergrande?

In January 2010 China Evergrande surprised investors with a stock exchange disclosure that its chairman Xu Jiayin needed to borrow $40 million from ...

In a stranglehold

Internet & Tech America’s next tech target could be foundry SMIC

What defines a superpower? For the American academic John Tkacik it comes down to the country’s military capability, including the superiority of the ...

Taking the strain

Banking & Finance Investors bet on China’s robotics future

Aside from qualified engineers most people may not be familiar with ‘strain wave gearing’, a type of speed reducer for precise positioning ...

Distilling wisdom

Corporate Q&A Whisky scion discusses how Glenfarclas grew its sales in China

George Grant represents the sixth generation of leadership at the single malt whisky distillery Glenfarclas. Run by his family since 1865, the ...

Shopping paradise

China Tourist Hainan is breaking duty-free sales records

With air travel severely disrupted, all airport operators have reported sharp decreases in passenger volume and revenues. Duty-free shops around the ...

Are you absolutely positive?

Healthcare BGI in Swedish row over how Covid test results are interpreted…

Brunei, an oil-rich sultanate in Southeast Asia, seems to have contained the coronavirus outbreak pretty effectively. As of September 7, the local ...

Teaching abroad

Education First state-backed Chinese school opens in Dubai

China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative is most commonly associated with infrastructure and trade. But it is also manifested in the growing ...

Entertainment Tenet becomes the first Hollywood hit post-Covid

After multiple delays over the summer, Disney finally made the big decision to stop waiting for American cinemas to reopen, sending its blockbuster ...

Separation anxiety

Sino-File “We lose billions of dollars and if we didn’t do business…

President Donald Trump again raised the idea of separating the US economy from the Chinese one on Monday, a prospect that would have been unthinkable ...

Lashed together

And Finally Why Pingdu is the ‘capital of fake eyelashes’

“The eye cannot see the eyelashes” is a Chinese proverb to describe seeing faults in others but being oblivious to your own. There are others ...