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WiC 524 (Jan 15, 2021)

Coming to a boiling point

China Consumer, Talking Point Covid-19 and changes in the market boosts Hebei noodle giant Jinmailang

China’s instant noodle market, the world’s biggest, has been dominated for decades by Master Kong and Uni-President. Both are from Taiwan but ...

Searching for sales

Auto Industry Baidu and Geely join forces to accelerate EVs

What might an Apple Car look like? Would it be as revolutionary for its sector as the iPhone proved for the telecoms world? Car industry commentators ...

Time to take stock

Banking & Finance, GBA Who will head Hong Kong’s bourse – now more valuable than…

In Chinese mythology, dragons symbolise great power. They wield it as the deities of moving water and can generate both floods and typhoons. Right ...

The Foxconn factor

Internet & Tech Another staff death puts pressure on Pinduoduo

Pinduoduo started out as “the poor man’s Alibaba”, thanks to its founder’s promise of cheaper shopping for people who make bulk purchases ...

Ready for a reshuffle

GBA, M&A Calls for shareholder changes at MGM; Macau gaming great Adelson dies

Sheldon Adelson, the founder of gaming giant Las Vegas Sands, was pretty unimpressed when he first laid eyes on the city that would make him one of the ...

Diplomatic exit

Cross Strait Beijing can’t wait to see the back of Mike Pompeo

In the view of many Chinese diplomats, Henry Kissinger is the statesman that contributed most to Sino-US relations. Considered “an old friend of the ...

Economy Chinese New Year plans hit by travel bans

A month ago China was gearing up for a relatively normal Lunar New Year celebration. Restaurants and shops were taking on extra staff in preparation ...

Crouching tigers

Education Why Chinese parents are stressed about schooling

The old (and rather sexist) saying claims that behind every successful man is a woman. But in China, behind every successful child is an even harder ...

Age cannot wither her?

Entertainment Chinese megastar Zhang Ziyi takes flak for playing a teenage princess

A year or two before her big international break 21 years ago in Lee Ang’s martial arts love story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang ...

Time is on our side

Sino-File “The world is in a turbulent time that is unprecedented in…

President Xi Jinping addresses leading cadres in a high-level meeting. The upbeat speech on China’s economic plans comes six months before the Party ...

Chained to their desks

And Finally Controversy over a cushion that tracks the work rate of office…

When a Hangzhou-based tech company distributed ‘smart-cushions’ to its employees last year, they were introduced as health aids – gadgets that ...