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WiC 528 (Feb 11, 2021)

Good riddance to the Rat

Talking Point After a tumultuous Year of the Rat, does the Ox promise…

Week in China ran its first review of the feng shui fortunes for the Chinese New Year ahead exactly 12 years ago, beginning with the Year of ...

Banking & Finance The changing face of China’s retail investors

Stock trading is no longer purely the preserve of the wealthy and well connected. That is one of the more powerful messages to emerge from the ...

Internet & Tech Bytedance and Meituan enter robot race

Robots were first conceived as an idea just over a century ago, not by scientists but courtesy of the Czech playwright Karel Capek. In his 1920 drama ...

Blood in the water

Property The ‘three red lines’ bring more pain for high-debt property developers

A sea change in how China’s real estate giants get access to capital is reverberating across the property sector. Bond investors are watching closely ...

No room for debate

Society New audio app Clubhouse banned within a few days of arriving…

Remember Google Plus? The search giant debuted its own social network in 2011 and promoted it for years before quietly giving up in 2019. When it ...

Banking & Finance Alibaba’s new bond issue comes with ESG tranche

“The outbreak of the epidemic has made us understand more about the relationship between humans and nature,” explained Tencent founder, Pony Ma in ...

Energy & Resources Chinese wind power revives as investor favourite

China’s windpower sector had a surge in the final quarter of 2020, notching up more new additions in December (47 gigawatts) than in 2018 and 2019 ...

Hangzhou express

Rail & Infrastructure Work begins on a public-private high-speed line

It goes without saying that 2020 was a miserable time for the travel industry. That includes China, which was one of the few countries to get its ...

No phones, more exercise

Society New plan to shake up Chinese school kids

China’s 200 million school children could be in for some changes in the coming months, after the release of two controversial new documents by the ...

Red Star China’s Beckham?

David Beckham is the third most capped English football player of all time. Yet despite showing some early promise in the sport, none of his sons look ...

Catch the slow train

Sino-File “From Beijing to Shanghai on a high-speed train takes 4 hours…

Thomas Friedman, author and New York Times columnist, talks to CNN’s Chris Cuomo about his concern that Donald Trump is still such a dominating ...

And Finally Profiteers seize on Guangzhou divorce delays

Ticket touts in Western countries make most of their money around pop concerts and sporting events. In China they trade in more essential things, like ...