Xie Wang Fu: Auspicious ambience for high-end Chinese dining
The first overseas offshoot of Shanghai’s best-known specialist crab restaurant is bringing the crustacean delicacy to Tokyo year-round.
A tale of two Chinese cities: Shenzhen and Shanghai
Shanghai and Shenzhen are both vital to China’s economic future. But neither is more important than the other and each has a unique role to play.
Secrecy and speed: Inside Ant Group’s unusual IPO process
The fintech giant is following a highly unusual process that draws on some of the tactics its former parent and affiliate Alibaba Group has previously used.
Smog caused an estimated 49,000 deaths in Beijing and Shanghai since Jan. 1
Air pollution has caused an estimated 49,000 deaths and $23 billion in economic losses in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai alone since Jan. 1, according to a "clean air counter" launched by environmental groups on Thursday. The online tool launched by the Helsinki-based Centre ...
How China is attempting to prevent a second wave of infections
As the first major country to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, China is focused on avoiding a devastating second wave of infections as it returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic life. Distanced school desks, compulsory face masks and tracking apps are being deployed from the financial ...
Japanese lifestyle specialty store operator The Loft Co. will debut in the Chinese market by opening its first directly owned overseas outlet in Shanghai possibly in July. The Loft signed a tenancy contract last Friday with the operator of the Metro City shopping mall in ...
Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai and New York at risk of rising seas, study says
China's Pearl River Delta, the country's manufacturing hub and home to tens of millions of people, is the world's most at-risk urban center from rising sea levels, according to a new study. The region could be under at least 67 cm (26 inches) of water ...
Chinese doctors 'using plasma therapy' on coronavirus patients
Doctors in Shanghai are using infusions of blood plasma from people who have recovered from the coronavirus to treat those still battling the infection, reporting some encouraging preliminary results, a Chinese professor said on Monday. The coronavirus epidemic is believed to have originated in a ...
Tesla up 20% after Panasonic posts first quarterly profit at battery business
Tesla Inc.'s stock surged 20 percent on Monday in its largest one-day gain since 2013, fueled by a quarterly profit at Panasonic's battery business with the U.S. carmaker and an investor report predicting its shares would rise more than ten-fold by 2024. Shares of Tesla ...
Chinese shares tumbled and the yuan weakened as traders returned from an extended holiday amid the worsening coronavirus outbreak. Support measures from China's government helped stem losses somewhat in Asia, while U.S. futures rose and Treasuries slipped. Stocks in Shanghai opened almost 9 percent lower, ...
