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WiC 548 (Jul 9, 2021)

Challenging times for Didi

Internet & Tech, Talking Point How a regulatory probe derailed trading debut of ride-hailing giant’s IPO

In a collaboration with the state news agency Xinhua, the R&D team at the ride-hailing platform Didi published a review in 2015 of bookings made by ...

Transfer pricing

M&A Jiangsu government rides to Suning’s rescue

Over the years football fans have learned to take media reports about player transfers with a pinch of salt. Don’t count on the biggest deals going ...

Property Ping An makes year’s biggest property purchase

“New leaders should burn three fires,” proclaims the Chinese idiom, advising clear and decisive action when taking on a new role. In that ...

Capital injection

Healthcare Cosmetics filler maker inks deal with Koreans ahead of Hong Kong…

Clostridium botulinum was first identified in 1895 after a botulism outbreak. Found in soil and the sediments of streams, lakes and coastal waters, the ...

The lure of a young market

Corporate Q&A Commercial ties between Bangladesh and China are growing rapidly

Bangladesh’s extended reach in garments exports has spearheaded its growth story, taking its GDP per capita beyond India’s. Part of that success ...

Mosquitoes repelled

Healthcare China has now officially eliminated malaria

In 1943 the Allies advanced on German-occupied Rome. In response the Nazi regime reflooded the Pontine Marshes to the southwest of the city, hoping ...

The biotech bourse

Healthcare Keymed Biosciences Hong Kong retail tranche 429-times covered in hot IPO…

As one of the most revealing documents that relates to a corporate entity, a listing candidate’s prospectus is expected to contain a comprehensive ...

China Tourist Covid may delay Macau gaming licences renewal

‘The house always wins’ is one of the many warnings against gambling. Yet that was hardly the case in Macau last year, when gross gaming revenue ...

China Consumer China’s largest hair transplant firm files for a Hong Kong IPO

For long periods of their history, the Chinese have preferred not to cut their hair. Han Chinese men bunched up their locks into a bun and wrapped it ...

Comment with caution

China Consumer Xiaomi wins lawsuit over hostile customer review

The customer is always right” is a longstanding motto said to have been popularised by Harry Gordon Selfridge, who founded the upscale department ...

Stars embrace the ‘red’ dawn

Entertainment Two new movies join TV offerings in celebrating the Party’s centenary

Ten years ago, the unimaginatively titled The Founding of the Party tried to tempt people to the cinema for a big screen recounting of the ...

Red Star The educator honoured by the CPC

Last Tuesday at an event to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of China’s Communist Party (CPC), an old lady in a loose-fitting cotton ...

Sino-File “In such a case, Japan and the United States will have…

A statement from Aso Taro, Japan’s deputy prime minister, saying his country would join with its US ally to defend Taiwan against an invasion from ...

And Finally Fund manager favourite Moutai is selling $500 bottles of wine

“I think if we drink enough Moutai, we can solve anything,” Henry Kissinger, the then US Secretary of State, is said to have optimistically told ...