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WiC 587 (Jun 3, 2022)

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China Consumer, Talking Point How lockdowns and crackdowns have hurt China’s e-commerce giants

For decades the ‘Four Great Inventions’ of the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing have been celebrated as historic examples of ancient ...

Premier makes a big call

Economy Why did Li Keqiang host an unprecedented video call?

Despite denials from the Kremlin, rumours abound that Vladimir Putin is terminally ill, a view triggered by an audio recording obtained by New Lines ...

Charge to the top

Auto Industry BYD has raced past Tesla in the Chinese market

“Few seem to realise that China is leading the world in renewable energy generation and electric vehicles,” noted Tesla supremo Elon Musk in a post ...

Battery wars ahead of IPO

Auto Industry Warning to investors as CATL sues rival CALB over patents ahead of…

In China you might typically steer clear of competition with a state-owned enterprise that used to develop missiles for the People’s Liberation ...

Candy that left a sour taste

Entertainment Starlet faces big fine over infringing China’s advertising laws

Last week we wrote about how German carmaker Audi was embroiled in a media storm after an advertisement featuring Andy Lau was found to have copied ...

Testing times

Healthcare Debates rage as Chinese cities ‘normalise’ regular Covid testing

This week Shanghai finally re-opened after a two-month lockdown. But residents quickly discovered a new addition to their streets: 9,000 permanent ...

Oh rats!

Healthcare Lab rats have become big business as firms rush to IPO

President Xi Jinping has said he wants China to be a pharmaceutical powerhouse by 2025. If the country is to get there, it will first need to become a ...

Cloudy outlook

Internet & Tech Alibaba steps up cloud investment across Asia

The industry believes that 2020 to 2030 will be the digital decade for Southeast Asia,” says Zhang Yi, research analyst at tech forecaster Canalys. ...

Profits unleashed

China Consumer IPOs signal growth in Chinese pet industry

The last two years have been a worrying time for pet owners in some parts of China: tough Covid lockdowns have led to concerns that dogs could be ...

Checking out

Tourism Airbnb calls time on its Chinese operations

In March 2017, Brian Chesky, co-founder of Airbnb, travelled to Shanghai to unveil the Chinese name of Airbnb. Aibiying, according to Chesky, means ...

Catching on

Society Frisbee trend takes off

Ultimate Frisbee was invented in the late 1960s at a New Jersey high school. At the time it was considered a “hippie” sport, where people dropped ...

Quack Attack

World of Weibo Quack Attack

“Gotta catch ‘em all” is how the Pokemon theme song puts it. That seems an appropriate message for KFC’s Pokemon-themed Children’s Festival ...

 Wang’s warning

Sino-File Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi responds to a major speech by…

“If the US blindly defines China-US relations in terms of great power competition and takes a ‘you lose, I win’ approach to policy, it will ...

In praise of ‘Grandpa Nice’

And Finally British children’s author stunned by his popularity in China

British writer and academic Michael Rosen boasts five decades of experience in publishing, performing and teaching. But what he wasn’t expecting ...

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