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WiC 536 (Apr 16, 2021)

Playing by the rules

Economy, Internet & Tech, Talking Point Ant and Alibaba take their regulatory punishment; others may follow

“Nearly all Chinese entrepreneurs don’t have happy endings,” Jack Ma told a group of private sector businesspeople back in 2011. Perhaps a few ...

Banking & Finance Chinese unicorns push Hong Kong listings bonanza to new heights

What could have prompted the rapid depletion of nearly HK$1 trillion ($130 billion) in liquidity at Hong Kong’s banks in February. Capital flight? ...

Property Wanda reshuffles IPO plan with Zhuhai gambit

Five years after Wanda Commercial waved farewell to the Hong Kong bourse, the property giant is said to be eyeing a return to the city’s stock ...

Shipping Cosco’s results show the container shipping industry is booming again

Many of the world’s e-commerce firms have been big commercial beneficiaries of the Covid-19 pandemic. There is another sector that is not far behind ...

Getting past the pandemic

HSBC Partner Content Banking boss discusses growing trade ties between China and Malaysia

International trade was one of the early victims as Covid-19 took hold around the world just over a year ago, although it is now leading much of the ...

Moving the needle

Healthcare Cities offer incentives to promote vaccination

How do you keep a country of 1.4 billion people protected from a return of Covid-19? That’s the question facing the authorities in China as the ...

Media & Gaming Media tycoon demands changes at broadcaster

Rupert Murdoch turned 90 last month. After 68 years as boss of News Corp, he is one of the world’s longest-serving CEOs. Li Ruigang, chairman of ...

Putting family first?

Entertainment, Society Moviegoers prefer a local tear-jerker to Godzilla and King Kong

It turns out that the biggest challenger to Godzilla vs. Kong is not another monster. In China, a low budget production entitled Sister has ...

Seven-year itch

Sino-File “We had seven years of negotiation for the deal. Now it…

Joerg Wuttke, head of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, points out that the provisional China-EU trade and investment deal was not mentioned ...

Best foot forward

And Finally Local sneaker brands cash in on patriotic surge

Speculative trading of second-hand sneakers is nothing new in China. The resale market is so extensive that it has turned Dewu, a shoe trading ...