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WiC 522 (Dec 11, 2020)

2020 vision, as we look back

Economy, Talking Point A select group of companies tell the story of how China’s…

Over the first 10 years of the 21st century the Iraq War in 2003 was the second-most read about news item. The death of pop star Michael Jackson in ...

Life is a rollercoaster

Chinese Character The billionaire who once led Zhejiang University and then went to…

The Bayh-Dole Act, signed into law in 1980, has been widely hailed as a key contributor to America’s technological leadership in recent decades. By ...

Barack on Beijing

China and the World Obama’s new book reveals his interactions with China’s senior leaders

Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land begins with his early political career and ends with a Navy SEAL team killing Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. The ...

M&A Nestlé sells Yinlu back to founder Chen Qingshui

Nestlé has a presence spanning more than a century in most of the 80 markets around the globe it operates in. But for mainland China, its engagement ...

China Consumer Leading snack firm to IPO

The origins of latiao (辣条) are said to date back 1998. At the time, a flood swept through Hunan province, which led to a shortage of soybeans and ...

A ‘zero innovation’ formula

China Consumer Why elderly Shanghainese love Zhending Chicken more than KFC

Located in the ever-changing metropolis of Shanghai, Zhending Chicken hasn’t updated its menu in 30 years. The chain store has no franchises, no ...

Contract killer

Energy & Resources Sizzling Chinese iron ore futures irk regulators

Refer to Iron Man and many will think of the superhero played by Robert Downey Jr in the Marvel movies. But the Chinese press has been speculating that ...

Banking & Finance Lufax looks for profit in new loan landscape

China’s P2P industry, or ‘peer-to-peer lending’, is no more. Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission ...

Not enough volume

Internet & Tech Industry talk has Alibaba exiting its music streaming business

Jeff Bezos says that to have major successes, a company probably needs to experience a few major setbacks too. “Amazon will be experimenting at ...

Bicycle kingdom

China Consumer E-bike maker AIMA can finally go public

In 2009, electric bike company AIMA appointed Jay Chou to be its spokesperson, offering the Taiwanese pop star Rmb30 million ($4.6 million) for a ...

A very Trumpian show

Entertainment, Society New reality TV series revolves around recruiting an intern at a…

In the reality show The Apprentice – which first aired in 2004 – contestants competed for a chance to head one of Donald Trump’s ...

Top of the flops

Entertainment Zhang Yimou's new movie fails to strike a chord with young…

Filmmaker Zhang Yimou titled his latest feature One Second, but it took much longer than that to get the film released. A story based in the ...

Ask Mei How I came to change my perception on the cohort growing…

As 2020 comes to an end, I have been looking back at a major revelation in this most unusual year. That is my change of view on China’s ‘Generation ...

The deal is still on

Sino-File “Now China has announced its recovery from the pandemic, we hope…

Outgoing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross tells the Milken Institute 2020 Asian Summit that China has bought over $23 billion of agricultural products, ...

Peak performance

And Finally China and Nepal agree on new height for Everest

In China they call it Qomolangma, while the Nepalis refer to it as Sagarmatha. But it was only on Tuesday this week that both Himalayan nations finally ...