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WiC 585 (May 20, 2022)

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Brand new era

China Consumer, Talking Point Luxury labels look beyond the pandemic for China profits

Wearied by weeks of home lockdowns, the fashion-conscious residents of Shanghai found a new way of lifting their spirits last month. With virus ...

Safe as houses

Property Sunac rocks market, then government intervenes

Times are tough in China’s property sector. But might they be offering a major opportunity to the bravest of bond investors? Many of the bonds ...

Marcos redux

China and the World Will the Philippines new leader be pro-China?

In 1975 the then president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda travelled to China on a trip that would re-establish formal ...

Jabs to the chin

Healthcare Why Sinovac is not immune to a media attack

Moderna was valued at $7 billion, or $23 a share, when the biotech firm went public on the Nasdaq in December 2018, a year before the Covid-19 outbreak ...

Up in smoke

Agriculture Burning wheat fields are a hot topic online

The current crop of China’s senior political figures, including President Xi Jinping, were born in the 1950s. As teenagers during the Cultural ...

Korea move

Auto Industry Geely’s overseas acquisition drive continues

What’s in a company name? Branding experts will tell you that the naming process is crucial, of course, and perhaps there were a few billable hours ...

Fuel for thought

Energy & Resources The struggle for a “monster” lithium deposit

Chinese ambitions to take control of the biggest lithium mine in Africa looked dead in the water in April 2020 after Canberra blocked the ASX-listed ...

An all-consuming question

China Consumer Why a ‘Big Data’ cashier-less store has been a Covid victim…

Amazon unveiled the first cashier-less convenience store in Seattle in 2018. The US tech giant later rolled out the “Just Walk Out” technology to ...

Education divide

Education Is China’s education sector also decoupling from the West?

College rankings are notoriously controversial. Most of the data that compilers use to calculate the rankings is self-reported, such as the amounts of ...

Legal eagles

Entertainment Why CCTV’s ‘rule of law’ drama is winning over few fans

Over the years, courtroom dramas have offered some pretty memorable quotes. For instance, there’s Jack Nicholson famous line: “You can’t handle ...

Sister act

Sino-File “I can understand how the time the Soong sisters spent here…

China’s ambassador to the US Qin Gang speaks during a visit to the Soong Sisters Gallery at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia last Friday. Qin ...

Fringe benefits

And Finally How more Chinese men are battling baldness

The eight-part drama-documentary Oh, My Hair (or Turan Fasheng in its local title) begins with an arresting image – 30 newborn mice pickled ...

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