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WiC 526 (Jan 29, 2021)

Taking one for the team

Sport, Talking Point Why Suning’s financial woes are a worry for Inter Milan fans…

The best football managers keep their players hungry for success. But sometimes team bosses in China can take this philosophy – perfected by the ...

Electrifying prospect

Auto Industry Investment pours into China’s EV sector at an accelerating pace

Companies in China have been urging their employees not to travel during the Chinese New Year for fear of spreading Covid-19 (see WiC524). One firm has ...

Anchoring expectations

Corporate Q&A Industry expert Tim Huxley discusses impact of Covid-19 on global shipping

Almost a year ago we spoke to Tim Huxley – the founder of Mandarin Shipping and a long-time WiC reader – about the devastating effect that Covid-19 ...

Internet & Tech Tencent stock hits record on WeChat anniversary

On Monday Tencent’s shares raced up another 10%, hitting a record high of HK$766.5 in Hong Kong. The rise pushed Tencent’s market capitalisation ...

China Tourist ‘Everything app’ Meituan buys stake in hotel chain Dossen International

When Vivion Group, a real estate company controlled by Israeli tycoon Amir Dayan, first tapped the debt market in 2019, investors were attracted by the ...

Elephant vs Ant

Internet & Tech Ma relearns the old maxim ‘don’t fight city hall’

In much of the Western world, The House That Jack Built is best known as a horror film depicting a serial killer who ends up falling into an ...

Banking & Finance Death sentence carried out as details emerge of official’s colossal graft

At a press conference by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) five years ago, a reporter from Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao ...

Energy & Resources Solar stocks in surge on carbon-neutral plan

The electric vehicle (EV) sector is grabbing many of the headlines at the moment but there’s another industry that’s made a spectacular comeback ...

Scandal over surrogacy

Entertainment, Society Two celebrity pregnancies set China buzzing with contrasting reactions

On the TV show Scandal, Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope, an immaculately dressed crisis management expert in Washington, D.C. The spin ...

Consular comeback

Sino-File “We’ve got to get our consulates back in operation. Speaking from…

David Firestein, a former US diplomat and CEO of the George HW Bush Foundation for US-China Relations, added that the US had “gained nothing” by ...

Too old to care

And Finally Suzhou granny joins OAP lawbreakers in China

In the HBO smash-hit series Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen is known as ‘Mother of Dragons’ for her feat of raising a trio of the ...