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WiC 493 (May 1, 2020)

Ancient cures to the fore

Healthcare, Talking Point How much did traditional Chinese medicine help in country’s virus battle?

The stupidest thing the United States ever did, said former US Navy Secretary Dan Kimball, was to accuse Qian Xuesen of being a Communist spy. Later ...

The buds of May

China Tourist China’s tourism sector hopes for domestic boost

International Labour Day, on May 1, dates back to the 1880s, when workers around the world rallied for more rights, including an eight-hour limit on ...

Treasure or trash?

Energy & Resources Chaos in Cushing as Chinese investors are hit hard by oil…

How many people could find Cushing (population: about 8,000) on a map? Maybe a few more since the small town in Oklahoma took centre-stage in an ...

Safety in numbers

China Consumer Pinduoduo teams up with Gome to challenge Alibaba and other big…

Tag team wrestling doesn’t have many fans in China. But its principle of pairing up into stronger alliances is becoming more of a norm in the ...

Internet & Tech Big payouts for top Tencent staff, but less welcome news at…

Canning Fok, the managing director of CK Hutchison and a longtime colleague of Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing, has been dubbed “the king of the ...

Who’s Hu The wealthiest traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner

Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015 because of her contribution to the effective application of artemisinin, a mainstay of anti-malarial ...

Digital destiny

Banking & Finance China’s central bank tests new currency plan

During testimony last year to the United States Congress on Libra, Facebook’s proposed digital “stablecoin”, Mark Zuckerberg raised the threat of ...

A new ambassador arrives

Society Victoria’s Secret in unlikely choice for its newest China brand endorser…

With China now on a path to recovery from the coronavirus outbreak, consumer brands want to get back to business as usual. A sprinkling of celebrity ...

Paying the price

Entertainment Financial pain as celebrity love lives unravel on social media

In this day and age, is a relationship real if it’s not being flaunted on Instagram? In China, no break-up is official unless you post news of it ...

An artificial gloss

China Consumer Tech leaders release apps to trial cosmetics at home

The “lipstick index” was a term coined by former Estee Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder after the global recession in 2001. Lauder noticed that women ...

Cashing in on chaos

Sino-File “They just say they don’t have material, and when you pay…

Sharvil Patel, managing director of drugmaker Zydus Cadila, tells the Financial Times that Chinese suppliers of raw materials have been price gouging. ...

The next level, lyrically

And Finally State media celebrates as Du Fu is compared to Shakespeare and…

The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu knew what it was like to live in unsettled times. In the poem Spring Scene, composed during the An Lu Shan ...