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WiC 514 (Oct 9, 2020)

Time to change channel

Talking Point, Telecoms China’s newest 5G firm is a ‘Divine Network’ on a broadcasting…

China Mobile, then known as China Telecom, went public in Hong Kong in October 1997. Braving a market meltdown amid the Asian financial crisis, the ...

A dotcom departs

Internet & Tech Sina joins exodus from the US capital market

The geopolitical scene has changed completely over the past 20 years but Sina Corp’s core business hasn’t. Such was the domestic media’s verdict ...

Bars with booze

China Consumer A growing market for liquor-laced ice cream

A ‘blackout’ is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “a temporary loss of consciousness”. It might seem like a strange choice of name ...

China Tourist Golden Week gives China’s domestic tourism sector a chance to shine

Hong Kong’s media has closely tracked the number of tourists arriving from mainland China over the National Day holidays. Visitor flows are seen as a ...

Entertainment Why Hongqi doesn’t want any extra endorsements from Fan Bingbing

Over the course of her career, actress Fan Bingbing’s face has adorned countless advertisements. One estimate puts the number of her endorsement deal ...

Brokering a deal

Banking & Finance Ex-Citic team acquires Sinolink Securities

According to The Classic of Mountains and Seas, or Shanhaijing, a text on ancient creatures and sacred geography that has circulated ...

China Consumer How a breakfast bun retailer became a breakout hit

From a single breakfast outlet in Shanghai to a 2,799-store franchise across China, Babi Mantou makes more than Rmb1 billion ($147.2 million) in sales ...

Growing concern

Agriculture Beijing worries about reliance on imported seeds

This summer people in the UK and North America started to receive small packets of seeds in the post. Two things were odd about these deliveries: ...

M&A Two new bidders go after Huishan Dairy

Dairy hasn’t been a prominent part of China’s culinary history but tastes are changing as society gets wealthier. That included some of the new ...

Cross Strait Taiwanese starlet in row over song

Taiwan’s cultural critic and democracy advocate Lung Ying-tai has long argued that an authoritarian regime cannot produce great songs. In 2016 when ...

Not a fit test?

Sport Athletes irked by new hurdle

There cannot be a bigger fish out of water in China right now than Wang Jian Jiahe: quite literally. The 18 year-old swimming prodigy recently won the ...

Red Star A popular stand-up comedian from Dongbei

Who is she? Born in Tieling, a coal-mining city in Liaoning province, comedian Li Xueqin, 25, did not have a happy childhood. Her ...

Seoul searching

Sino-File “The hurdles are just too high”

Bae Young-ho, a researcher at the Korea Federation of SMEs in Seoul, said that in a survey his organisation conducted around 70% of Korean firms ...

And Finally Ron Howard to make biopic about Lang Lang

When Chinese pianist Lang Lang was nine, he moved with his father to Beijing so that he could prepare to sit the entry exam for the Central ...