If it had not been for COVID-19, Tom Watkins would have been in China now, serving as the China partner and managing director of WAY American Schools, a private US school using internet to teach students in China and Brazil and offering them an American High School Diploma program.
Since the Alibaba-conjured Singles Day has evolved into an online-and-offline global consumption festival, people must be either e-commerce experts or e-commerce ignoramuses. Most expatriates in China will likely find themselves in the ignoramuses' camp due to language constraints.
For the past five years, farmer Michael Christian Simon has regularly supplied organic vegetables to a steady clientele of more than 30 families in the Malaysian state of Selangor.
In the 1970s the Western world gorged itself on fad diets, from Atkins to Scars-dale, and the millions of books about them that were sold helped keep the publishing industry in good shape. About the same time, punk rock music made its world debut.
Saturnbird Coffee launched its third edition of Project Return in 43 cities across China from Oct 16 to 18.
Fan Lihong, her parents and her daughter are standing along Madang Road in Shanghai, cups in hand. Many others in the line are doing the same.
The distance is great, I admit, between true poverty and the choices we make from a less precarious position.
This is a reality show unlike any other. And the stopwatch is set to months not seconds or minutes. Shimmering rice terraces, stepping up from ancient valleys, provide a stunning backdrop. Pristine rural areas become hives of economic activity.
The 2020 edition of the Best Chinese Subjects ranking was released by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy on Oct 15.
BEIJING－Designer Mu Yang likes to occasionally grab a beer after work while hanging out with friends, but he has a preference for good-quality craft beer. Therefore, he makes a conscious effort to pick out places offering such brews.
When bliss gives way to an unbearable din and financial ruin
More and more Chinese women of a certain age are finding that following an independent road is the way to go, Chen Meiling reports.
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