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WiC 515 (Oct 23, 2020)

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Economy, GBA, Talking Point President Xi tours Shenzhen to celebrate city’s major milestone

You start out with a remote fishing village and then you add free markets, hardworking people and buccaneering entrepreneurs. What do you get? Surging ...

Healthcare China rolls out experimental Covid-19 vaccines

American virologist Jonas Salk completed a number of bold trials before succeeding in developing a polio vaccine in 1955. That included injecting the ...

Corporate Q&A Chinese factories are still pivotal, says top US collectibles maker

Sideshow Collectibles is a specialty manufacturer of collectible figures and statues, making goods based on characters from Marvel, Star ...

Banking & Finance, China Consumer Robert Kuok’s food firm is now the most valuable ChiNext stock

Two years before founding his agribusiness conglomerate Wilmar International in Singapore, Kuok Khoon Hong – nephew of Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok ...

Rise of the RMB Yuan back in favour, making gains against the US dollar

Six years ago usage of the yuan was growing quickly enough beyond China’s own borders that the currency merited mention in The Economist for its ...

Internet & Tech How Baidu is banking on a new strategy focused on artificial…

Algorithms are a sequence of steps that solve a certain task. Increasingly crucial in shaping the digital world, they actually have a long history as a ...

China Consumer New Alibaba stores sell everything for one yuan

At Alibaba’s newest store all of the goods are priced at just one yuan, or $0.14. It’s a staggeringly low figure: even the cheapest item at ...

Cross Strait Fisticuffs in Fiji and spy arrests signal new low

Not on the list to a party? Mainland Chinese diplomats apparently did not think it would be a problem as they crashed an event in Fiji hosted by ...

Media & Gaming The Korean War is commemorated in a flurry of films and…

The cast for a 30-part series made in China 20 years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean War was said to number more than 100,000 ...

Entertainment, Society How Chinese short-video platforms have become a home for scammers

When the TV show The Best Partner first came out in late 2019, most of the comments online were that the legal drama bore a striking ...

Sino-File “Foxconn will work as a partner with those who treat the…

Foxconn founder Terry Gou says completion of an LCD factory in Wisconsin hinges on whether local US government support is forthcoming. On October 12 ...

And Finally Booze ban for government officials

Spare a thought for government officials in Qingcheng in Gansu province this weekend if you open a bottle of wine at home or meet friends for a ...

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