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Resentment at the smoking ban in Macau’s casinos smoulders on, it seems. We first wrote about the restrictions four years ago (see WiC260) but they clearly still rankle: last month a police officer even had to fire a warning shot during a clash ...
Generally speaking, hotels love to talk up the ‘people skills’ of their staff when they are promoting their services. Not so at Flyzoo, Alibaba’s new unmanned hotel in Hangzhou. There, the front-of-house work is done by robots and by ...
Cathay Pacific reinforced its position as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier in 2006 by buying out local rival Dragonair from Chinese investors including the Citic Group. However, a new competitor emerged in the same year: Hainan Airlines, part of ...
In 2016, American news magazine Inside Edition released a report suggesting that three out of nine New York hotels in its study weren’t changing bedsheets after guests checked out. A separate 2012 review on contamination levels in hotel rooms ...
The bankruptcy of First Natural Foods was a major stockmarket scandal in Hong Kong. The Fujian-based frozen seafood provider was declared insolvent in 2009 and its prospects were dire until a restructuring in 2014, with the emergence of a new ...
It’s typical for students at American colleges to display their names outside of their dormitory rooms. In February, a vandal roamed the corridors of one dormitory at Columbia University and removed only the name cards that had been written in ...
The threat was clear enough. “Some foreign countries see our nation as an enormous market, and we have investigated a series of cases,” Hua Jingfeng, a deputy director at the Ministry of Public Security warned last year. “A fair number of ...
Why do you go on holiday? To relax? To see new places? Or soak up the sun? WiC is guessing that ‘avenging historic wrongs’ and ‘furthering your country’s strategic interests’ aren’t high on your list. Not so in China, where some ...
Is human nature naturally good or evil? That was a question pondered by Mencius, an ancient scholar whose reputation is surpassed only by Confucius in Chinese history. Mencius opted for ‘good’, illustrating his belief with the image of a ...
Powder was troubling the European newspapers over the Christmas period. But while the Alpine dailies were bemoaning a shortage of snow for festive skiers, the Chinese media was reporting concerns about a different powder. A shortfall in baby milk ...