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WiC 521 (Dec 4, 2020)

The new ‘Tuan’ economy

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Internet giants see ‘community group buying’ as a huge growth area

Groupon was founded in 2008 with the idea of getting people together online to bargain collectively for bigger discounts in the same product or ...

A clean bill of health

Healthcare JD Health bags $3.5 billion in IPO as ‘Big Health’ competition…

“If we get it right in the healthcare sector, we could create another JD.com,” Richard Liu once told his right-hand man Xin Lijun before spinning ...

Hot wheels, hot topic

Auto Industry A surge of coverage of China’s electric vehicle sector in the…

When the British philosopher and statesman Sir Thomas More coined the term Utopia in the early sixteenth century he was describing a fictional society ...

The long journey home

Space Programme Latest Chinese lunar mission is bringing Moon rocks back to Earth

China’s Chang’e 5 mission to collect rock samples from the Moon is a complex one involving multiple stages. On Thursday evening it completed a ...

The Lion and the Dragon

Corporate Q&A Senior bankers discuss lure of Singapore for Chinese firms foraying abroad

Cross-border trade has struggled in an unprecedented year for the global economy, with lockdowns and quarantines causing disruption worldwide. China ...

Afghan conflict

China and the World Sino-Australian rift continues to widen

A month ago we noted how Joe Biden’s presidential win presented a chance to slow the souring of relations between China and Australia. The idea was ...

No more penury?

Economy China says it has eliminated extreme poverty

In October the World Bank forecast that Covid-19 could push 150 million people around the world into extreme poverty. Not so in China, where the ...

China Consumer McDonald’s joins coffee market’s brewing battle

The first McCafe was launched in Melbourne in 1993. A decade later McCafe had become the largest coffee shop brand across Australia and New Zealand. ...

Entertainment Banned from the stock market, Vicky Zhao is back stronger than…

Actress Rachel McAdams was 25 when she appeared in Mean Girls, a 2004 movie in which she played a teenage bully. Tom Holland was 24 when he ...

Entertainment News that Netflix is to remake Chinese classic draws ire

One of the Four Classic Novels, The Water Margin (Shuihu Zhuan 水滸傳) tells the story of 108 outlaws who band together on a mountain ...

World of Weibo No free lunch

Twitter’s feed is largely chronological. Facebook relies more on algorithms, which means that well-liked content or posts from friends tend to show ...

Hoping for harmony

Sino-File “With China we have developed close and good relations over the…

Clemens von Goetze, Germany’s ambassador to China, tells the South China Morning Post that his country wants to work with Beijing on finding common ...

And Finally Tencent unveils its talented new ‘robo-dog’

Four-legged Jamoca is a metre long and weighs in at 70kg – which doesn’t sound too different from a large dog like a Great Dane, to which it bears ...