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WiC 577 (Mar 18, 2022)

Speculative failure

Energy & Resources, Talking Point How China’s biggest nickel producer got caught out in the futures…

Chinese investors sometimes refer to ‘demon stocks’. These are characterised by logic-defying lurches in their share prices and are frequently ...

Breaking with tradition

China Consumer After its first ad in 20 years Laoganma is now raising…

There’s a saying that there is a bottle of Laoganma in every household in China. So many people grew up on the hot sauce that in 2014 when the son of ...

China Consumer Consumer spending is alive and well in Shanghai

The word ‘omakase’ in Japanese means “I’ll leave it up to you”. Around the 1990s, as Japan became increasingly wealthy, a lot of the newly ...

Exchange of views

Banking & Finance Is a deal afoot over delisting threat faced by Chinese stocks…

When former steam engine stoker Harland Sanders opened a roadside restaurant in Kentucky during the Great Depression, he could never have imagined a ...

Dotcom crash 2.0

Internet & Tech A rollercoaster ride for internet stocks this week

For investors looking for a better understanding how China’s political economy works, a good starting point is to review regulators’ efforts to ...

Corridors of power

HSBC Partner Content Chinese investment in key zones gives Thai economy boost, says HSBC…

Despite two years of disruption from the pandemic, trade and investment ties between China and Thailand are deepening. Late last year a new railway ...

Cloak and dagger

Other Industries Stealth fighters in focus after ‘metamaterials’ IPO

A company called Shaanxi Huaqin Technology landed on Shanghai’s STAR Market earlier this month, with a share sale that valued it at nearly Rmb17 ...

China’s got talent

Entertainment Yuehua files for an IPO but is it China’s answer to…

Ari Emanuel founded Endeavor in 1995 and went on to establish himself as one of Hollywood’s most prominent agents, representing Oprah Winfrey, Martin ...

Life without oil

And Finally Will air fryers revolutionise Chinese cooking?

Many Chinese recipes begin with a wok and some hot oil. Indeed frying is so common that there are multiple words to describe it: chao ...