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Facing the future together

“We plan to ship over one million by the end of this week and over one million per week after…
Apr 10, 2020 (WiC 490)

Apple CEO Tim Cook announces that the tech firm has designed a new face mask for hospital workers, which is being made both in China and the US. Initial distribution will be in America, with the first Apple masks delivered to a hospital in the ...

Seeds of an idea

Chinese scientists say they can recreate a plant that makes valuable oil
Apr 10, 2020 (WiC 490)

Looking at its Latin name, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the desert plant Jojoba originated in China. But the Latin binomial – Simmondsia chinensis – was the result of a mistake by a 17th century German botanist called Johann ...

Female billionaires

What accounts for the rise of Chinese women in the business world?
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

In one of my earlier columns (see WiC375), I lauded Chinese women in general as being “intelligent, resilient, hard-working and resourceful”. I also quoted data showing the strong participation of women in the private sector of the Chinese ...

More pain on the menu

“Gradually more and more merchants are coming back; however, on the demand side consumers still have concerns in terms of…
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

Chen Shaohui, CFO of Meituan-Dianping, cautions on the prospects of the app’s food delivery business. Meituan is expecting an operating loss in the first quarter because of the coronavirus after making its first annual profit (of Rmb2.2 ...

Learning to forget

Chinese scientists claim they can make rats lose their memory
Apr 3, 2020 (WiC 489)

History lessons in China are taught carefully, especially in cases of controversial events in the recent past, which are only hinted at in official records and almost impossible to read about online. But a group of researchers from Peking ...

Luosifen
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

What is it? A famous snack from Liuzhou in Guangxi province, called luosifen – also known as river ‘snail rice noodle’ in English – is notorious for its pungent odour. ...

“It would be perfectly normal if the virus comes and goes, and lasts for one or two years”
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

The warning from Zhang Wenhong, head of Shanghai’s Covid-19 clinical expert team, during a video-conference organised by the Chinese consulate in Düsseldorf.“I can tell you now, forget the idea that the pandemic will come to an end in Europe ...

The naked truth

Rogue employees cripple a rival dating app using dirty tricks
Mar 27, 2020 (WiC 488)

Revenge porn is typically the result of an intimate relationship gone wrong. The aggrieved party distributes images of a former partner to shame and embarrass them. But in China companies are trying out a variation of the same abuse – using ...

Zhang Weili
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

Why is she in the news? Mixed martial arts star Zhang Weili defended her straw-weight title against Joanna Jedrzejczyk at UFC 248 in Las Vegas on March 8, winning a bitter, five-round ...

Fang Fang, a voice from Wuhan

Lockdown tales attract 62 million netizens despite censorship
Mar 20, 2020 (WiC 487)

I first came across Fang Fang, a Wuhan-based writer, two years ago for her novel Soft Burial, which had been banned in China but which was circulating online. It is a captivating and heart-wrenching story about a landlord family in rural ...

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