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WiC 593 (Jul 15, 2022)

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The ‘Lithium OPEC’

Energy & Resources, Talking Point As Tianqi lists in Hong Kong, the story behind it and…

Lithium – known as the ‘white petroleum’ – is a metal commonly used in the making of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). A dozen years ago ...

A rapid charge

Auto Industry Meet China’s newest EV battery unicorn

Commentators are talking about a tipping point in the electric vehicle (EV) sector. Sales of EVs have pushed past the 5% mark (in adoption rates) in ...

Held to account

Banking & Finance Angry savers take to the streets in Zhengzhou

Is it a sounder investment to put money into a bank’s savings account or buy the lender’s shares? Take ICBC: China’s largest bank by market value ...

Rajapaksa raj ends

Belt and Road Chinese loans crucial as Sri Lanka melts down

Sri Lanka is home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of leopards. However, the country’s people seemed to overlook the old maxim about ...

Fallen leader

China and the World The reaction in China to Abe’s death

“One thing did strike my attention that this is the first use of a weapon to murder someone in Japan [this year],” noted Joe Biden in his response ...

Consumers at melting point

China Consumer Controversy over local ice cream centres on high prices and how…

Ice cream brand Zhong Xue Gao has always prided itself on using the best all-natural ingredients. That helps to support its hefty prices: the Ecuador ...

Kentucky brew

China Consumer Yum launches a tea chain

What would Colonel Sanders have made of it? On June 29, a netizen on social e-commerce platform Little Red Book posted that KFC had opened a tea shop ...

Internet-of-stings

Internet & Tech Tuya lists in Hong Kong on fears about US exit

British drama The Undeclared War fictionalises what might happen when an unfriendly nation – in this case Russia – launches a cyber attack ...

A toddler versus giants

Internet & Tech Closure of Mia app rattles investors in baby sector

When stay-at-home mom Liu Nan decided to start her own business in 2011 – the year her daughter was born – she chose an area she was starting to ...

Jobs for the boys

Entertainment Why a film star’s new role in a state-run theatre is…

For many young people in China, working in government departments has become fashionable again. The positions can be tough to get. Registration for the ...

Rest in peace

Society Shenzhen pioneers ‘living will’ for dying patients

Ms Du is a neatly dressed woman in her late forties. She has a good job as a company executive and believes in personal responsibility. She also likes ...

Bolton bombshell

Sino-File “The admission simply shows that interfering in other countries’ internal affairs…

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on revelations that emerged from a CNN interview that former National Security Advisor John ...

Raw like sushi

And Finally The latest culinary craze in China is for edible uncooked eggs

‘A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. What is it?’ The answer to the classic riddle is, of course, an egg. And a ...

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