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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 ...

Ex-contractor puts BGI on the spot with suicide threat
Sep 28, 2018 (WiC 426)

“I decided to leave on September 22, the second anniversary of the China National GeneBank. I am prepared to die on this day in the most sublime manner. I will live-stream how I jump off the tower. Perhaps nobody will be watching the broadcast ...

Fosun Pharma calls for calm after more allegations about malpractice
Sep 7, 2018 (WiC 423)

Better short-lived pain than a long one, is the “tough love” that The Economist magazine said China’s drugs regulator sees as the necessary path to upgrading the local pharmaceutical industry. That remark was heard by the China head of ...

Resignations and arrests in the aftermath of Changsheng vaccine scandal
Aug 24, 2018 (WiC 421)

The latest reshuffle of Hong Kong’s blue-chip stock index earned a mixed reaction last month. The departure of Bank of East Asia, Singtao Daily reported, was “an unexpected one” given the lender’s market capitalisation is greater than ...

The most talked about topic in China right now is a vaccine scandal
Jul 27, 2018 (WiC 419)

The Happy Dairy Commune was established in 1956 in a village in Hebei’s Shijiazhuang. It initially had 32 cows. Its long-serving chairwoman Tian Wenhua first joined as a vet in 1966 but by 1983 Happy Dairy had been licenced as one of just three ...

China banks on drug reform for affordable healthcare
Jul 20, 2018 (WiC 418)

In the first decades after it gained independence in 1947, India had little influence over the global pharmaceutical market. Imports made up nearly 90% of its drug consumption, while local prices for medicines were among the highest on ...

Yestar to IPO on the back of plastic surgery craze
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

Two actresses climbed the celebrated steps at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. One was Fan Bingbing, one of China’s most famous stars. The other was Fan Bingbing too, or at least that is what many news outlets were erroneously reporting when ...

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