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WiC 557 (Sep 24, 2021)

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Blue chip quality?

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Our WiC30 A-Share Blue Chip Index is up 12.5% annually since…

Journalist Charles Dow founded his famous index on May 26, 1896, with the intention of creating a “window” on the stockmarket and the wider ...

Digital realities

Internet & Tech Tencent and Bytedance are racing to plant their flags on the…

For a long time Guy thinks that he is just an ordinary bank teller at a place called Free City. He follows the same routine every day with a blasé ...

Ruckus over AUKUS

China and the World Australian submarine purchases sparks fury in France and China

It’s not often that China and France claim diplomatic outrage over the same event. Yet the announcement of a new defence pact between the United ...

Audio star

Media & Gaming China’s biggest podcast platform to go public

As the saying goes, as one door closes another door opens. Four days after Ximalaya shelved its Nasdaq listing plan, the Chinese podcasting platform ...

Named, shamed

Economy Bounties issued for bosses

With the speed at which the fortunes of many Chinese tycoons have reversed lately, a new profession may soon flourish: that of bounty hunters who are ...

Ruffled feathers

China and the World What does Chinese attack on Canada Goose suggest?

“The moon isn’t rounder in foreign countries, and foreign down jackets aren’t any warmer either”. That’s what the Beijing-based Economic ...

Steely approach

China and the World Baosteel signs Saudi deal

Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing titan Saudi Aramco is hoping that it will be third time lucky in getting a massive new steel plant off the ground in the ...

A losing hand?

Economy Regulatory storm reaches Macau and HK

Sun Hong Kai PropertiesMajor changes in the casino enclave of Macau have been expected for months, with the current gaming licences due to expire next ...

Brick by brick

China Tourist Lego makes huge theme park push in China

“Who needs reality when you can wander around this knee-high paradise,” exclaimed Britain’s Pathe News Service in June 1968. The same month ...

Scalpels under scrutiny

Entertainment The latest casualty of the celebrity crackdown: the plastic surgery industry

Last week, an excerpt from the upcoming How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy, revealed how the filming of “McDreamy” ...

Never ‘Ever’ give up

Sino-File “I firmly believe that Evergrande people’s spirit of never admitting defeat,…

Xu Jiayin tries to inspire his workforce in an internal memo sent on Tuesday. The beleaguered real estate developer faces a well-publicised debt crisis ...

A successful ‘spelling’ game

And Finally New Harry Potter mobile game proves massive hit in China for…

The first Harry Potter novel did not arrive in bookstores in China until 2000, three years after the English-language version of Harry Potter and ...

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