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Scandals spotlight HPV vaccine shortage
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

It was in Wenzhou that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine – arguably the most reliable shield against cervical cancer – was first made available in China. The Zhejiang city was picked because the vaccine’s manufacturer Merck wanted to ...

Chinese pharma tycoon spends $6.5 million to get daughter into top college
May 10, 2019 (WiC 451)

The achievements of Mencius, the second most revered of China’s sages after Confucius, are often traced back to his solicitous mother. Legend has it that widow Zhang moved house three times – from close to a cemetery to a marketplace and ...

Meet the PLA-linked company that’s soared on China’s cannabis craze
Apr 12, 2019 (WiC 448)

Whoopi Goldberg has a product line of body balm that’s derived from it. Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness platform Goop has also added its stamp of approval having partnered since last June with MedMen, a California-based marijuana dispensary chain. ...

Regulators take aim at the chewing of areca
Mar 29, 2019 (WiC 446)

Taiwanese farmers used to call the betel nut ‘green gold’. In fact, in the mid-1990s as much as a fifth of the island’s arable land was used for growing areca. Trips around Taiwan were brightened by so-called Betelnut Beauties – young ...

Concerns about cosmetic craze among teens
Feb 22, 2019 (WiC 441)

About half of the East Asian population is said to have ‘double eyelids’, or a naturally occurring crease of the skin over the eyes. So when the Beijing News visited a high school in Chengdu recently it was surprised to find that almost all ...

Healthcare firm Tianjin Quanjian mired in pyramid scheme scandal
Jan 11, 2019 (WiC 436)

Senmiao Street, Shijixi Street, and Quanjian Street in Tianjin’s Wuqing District used to be lined with coaches that brought visitors to the coastal city. Locals said many were keen to source goods that were typically used in fire therapy (a ...

How the opioid fentanyl could be a bargaining chip in the trade war
Dec 14, 2018 (WiC 435)

The British were the dominant force in the opium trade during imperial times, but the Americans were pretty decent drug pushers too. By the early 1800s merchants from the US managed about a tenth of the opium trade, through men such as John ...

Why vaccine production in China has fallen by half this year
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

The English word flu comes from the Italian “influenza”, meaning influence. In the medieval period it was thought that unfavourable celestial arrangements triggered outbreaks. Later the virus was given a longer name “influenza del ...

Hospitals suspended for fleecing social security fund
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

China has taken giant strides toward achieving ‘basic’ universal healthcare. Reforms introduced in the past two decades have dramatically lifted the insured population from less than 16% in the 1990s to 97% last year. The insurance rollout, ...

Ant’s mutual insurance scheme an online hit
Nov 2, 2018 (WiC 430)

Big data, big gains. That is the mantra of China’s tech giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. One area where that seems to be undeniably true for the customer, and not just for companies, is insurance. Late last month Alibaba’s financial ...

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