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WiC 543 (Jun 4, 2021)

Counting to three

Economy, Talking Point How did media and netizens respond to China’s new Three-Child Policy?

Karl Marx once described Thomas Malthus, the famed English demographer, as a “lackey of the bourgeoisie”. A similar verdict almost sealed the fate ...

Business is in the Liu DNA

Property Stock market return for New Hope boss as property management unit…

The Liu brothers from Sichuan – Yongxin, Yonghao, Yongyan and Yongmei (who is also known as Chen Yuxin) – topped Forbes magazine’s first China ...

Shenzhen’s surreal estate

Property Why are property agents using fruit to denote home prices?

Remember those elementary maths problems at school that you solved using fruits instead of numbers? Homebuyers in Shenzhen are having to resort to ...

Beat the system

Internet & Tech Huawei launches its own OS to take on Android

How do you identify a Communist? In 1946 a Detroit union leader called Emil Mazey popularised the ‘duck test’. He denounced one of his colleagues ...

Cut to the bone

Society Calf reduction is in the news

When Zhiqing, the last factory producing shoes for bound feet, marked its closure in 1999 by donating eight pairs of wooden lasts (i.e. the models used ...

The Mongolian hot spot

Banking & Finance Risks at regional lenders sees probes spread from Baotou to northeast

“The mountains are high and the emperor is far away” goes an old Chinese proverb, meaning that the power of the imperial court reached its ...

China Consumer Bloomage wants women to drink hyaluronic acid

Taiwanese starlet Barbie Hsu, 44, once caused a stir by saying that if it wasn’t for hyaluronic acid – an injectable filler that tightens the face ...

China Consumer Gree to set buyback record for A-share market

Dong Mingzhu, the indomitable boss of Gree Electric, likes to lead from the front. The 66 year-old proved it again last year by hosting a series of ...

Go with the flow

Banking & Finance, GBA Wealth Connect set to launch in GBA market

What happens when some of mainland China’s wealthiest households get new access to investment opportunities in Hong Kong? Hundreds of newly employed ...

Handle with care

Environment Animal escapes put zoos in the spotlight

Tiger King, a documentary about the chaotic life of big cat breeder Joe Exotic, was the Netflix smash hit of 2020. By the time it was ...

Entertainment Tencent Video makes TV hit by mixing history with forensic science

The longest-running crime series in Britain and one of the most enduring anywhere — at 23 seasons – is BBC’s Silent Witness. Like the ...

Good for the soul

Sino-File “For a good smart car the hardware is the body and…

Zhou Hongyi, founder and CEO of Qihoo 360, tells the China Daily why his firm, a leading player in antivirus software and internet security, has ...

Con me if you can

And Finally Desperate job seekers pay Rmb4 million for airport job – only…

Would you pay Rmb140,000 ($21,948) for the chance to work at Chengdu’s new international airport? You might be surprised to learn that at least 39 ...