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Issue 296

WiC 296 (Sep 18, 2015)

Frenemy at the gates

Talking Point The biggest corporate rivals in China are increasingly Alibaba and Wanda

Richard Neville is known to English historians as the Kingmaker. That’s because in the middle part of the fifteenth century he not only became the ...

Spitting mad

M&A Qihoo’s Zhou fires back in latest ‘saliva war’

China’s netizens are no strangers to their country’s tycoons trading derisory messages on social media. The Xiaomi-LeTV rivalry is a good example. ...

Still forking out

China Consumer Top Western restaurants say they’re full even as China economy slows…

Luckily for high-end restauranteurs in Shanghai, the stock market turmoil seems to have done little to dampen appetites for quality nosh in elegant ...

On the waterfront

Shipping Shanghai Port holds consignments to ransom

The Grand Canal is the world’s largest man-made waterway, stretching over 1,000 miles down the east of China, from the capital, Beijing, to its ...

Building bridges

China and the World What does Russia’s slow progress on a transport link to China…

In 1868, Russia launched the Manza War. The conflict was intended to purge the territories Russia had acquired from China of the Chinese people still ...

The smaller screen

Internet & Tech Online ‘influencers’ can earn more than film stars

You know you’ve made it when Harvard Business School asks to write a case study about you. But for Chiara Ferragni, 28, the story started in 2009 ...

Reality check

Telecoms Can virtual reality headsets revive HTC?

The past few years have not been kind to Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC. After creating the world’s first Android smartphone in 2002 the ...

Changing channels

Media & Gaming Newcomers set to shake up TV landscape in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s free-to-air TV operator TVB is sometimes known locally as “CCTVB”. This is partly a mocking reference to China’s state broadcaster ...

Gift giving

Ask Mei What are the basic rules for gift-giving in China?

Gift-giving or Song Li 送礼 is a ritual that’s as essential as eating and breathing in China. However, we Chinese normally don’t give gifts just ...

Worst of the worst

Entertainment Why China’s answer to the US movie Top Gun turned out…

The Pentagon has occasionally turned to Hollywood for a bit of pizzazz. In 2011, for example, the American military struck a sponsorship deal with the ...

Schooled by Singapore

Economy Is Sasac going to be transformed into a Chinese version of…

Before Deng Xiaoping visited Singapore in November 1978 the Chinese press often referred to the city-state as a “running dog of American ...

Getting a head

Planet China A professor at Harbin Medical University has told China Daily that…

A professor at Harbin Medical University has told China Daily that he will soon be in a position to “transplant a human head” via surgery. Ren ...

Minions meet <i>chengguan</i>

Cartoons Minions meet chengguan

A film about yellow organisms that evolved at the dawn of time may not sound like a blockbuster concept. But Minions has proven a huge hit, ...

Disappearing act

Sino-File “If one day I find that the US market has no…

Baidu’s boss Robin Li tells Bloomberg he might delist his search engine firm from the US and relist in China. He doesn’t think American investors ...

Bear market

And Finally After sharing an Alaskan adventure with Obama, Grylls has eye on…

Odd things happen on China’s internet. A good example: the disappearance earlier this month of a photo showing America’s ‘First Family’ (in it ...