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The world’s first restaurant and earliest celebrity chef

Shopkeepers in China 900 years ago accidentally created restaurant food culture, and their achievement is listed among Life magazine's 100 greatest achievements of the past millennium. Emily Zhou reports IN OR ABOUT THE YEAR 1120 AD, a shopkeeper in the old Chinese city of Kaifeng had an idea. There were lots of merchants arriving from…

August 11, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

Chinese finance firms could get ESG edge

IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU that your investments don’t worsen problems of pollution, the mistreatment of workers, and corruption? If so, you are probably aware of two hot topics in finance: Environmental, Social and Governance investing (ESG), and Sustainable Finance. Both initiatives are bringing business opportunities for investment banks and commercial banks to drive profit…

August 10, 20220Comments ByJason Yan

Culture

A student told Confucius the most important thing in life

ONE DAY, CONFUCIUS asked four of his students to tell him about the greatest thing they would like to achieve. “I’d like to help rule a troubled land and bring peace to it,” said one. “I’d like to govern a poor place and raise it to prosperity,” said another. The third was a humbler young…

August 9, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features

Return to the Kingdom of Bicycles

Planners designed ten thousand kilometers of bike track in China, as cycling makes a huge comeback THE BICYCLES ARE BACK. Cycling, for decades the dominant mode of transport in China, is becoming popular again, and the potential is immense. Shanghai, 1980s As recently as the 1990s, China was known as the Kingdom of Bicycles, with roads…

August 8, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Tiny Hong Kong firm rises 14000% to become bigger than Disney

INSTANT SUPER-WEALTH ALL ROUND? An obscure Hong Kong company named AMTD Digital has seen a record-breaking rise. On Tuesday a scramble for its shares, newly listed in New York, saw its value rise to US$300 billion, which is more than Chinese giant corporation Alibaba’s New York valuation. AMTD Digital has just 50 staff, so shared…

August 5, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Chinese firms are world’s biggest earners, new data reveals

FOR THE FIRST TIME. Chinese enterprises made more money than firms in the US or elsewhere on the planet, it was revealed yesterday. And an obscure Chinese firm you’ve never heard of called State Grid came in well ahead of Apple Inc. The data is in the 2022 Fortune Global 500 chart, released yesterday. It…

August 4, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

‘China wise not to attack plane’

THE RANGE OF PEOPLE condemning US politician Nancy Pelosi for smashing the long-held agreement that kept people in East Asia safe is eyebrow-raising. The US "speaker of the house" flew to Taiwan on Tuesday, August 2, in violation of pacts that prevent senior US officials from visiting the island. Below, we review a range of…

August 3, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Chinese medicine is finding its place in the world

Western and Chinese medical practitioners are increasingly working together. Today, close to 200 widely used modern medicines have been developed either directly or indirectly from the list of some 7,300 plants recorded in the books of Chinese medicine. It’s an exciting time for the sector, reports Herman Hu. THE TEAM OF NEARLY 400 doctors and…

August 2, 20220Comments ByHerman Hu

News

Beijing air ‘cleaner than London’: scientists astonished

China managed to reduce air pollution in seven years by as much as the US did in three decades, says new report. The forceful implementation of policies to target factories and transportation has accounted for 75% of the reduction of air pollution – not just in China, but globally. The speed of the reductions in…

August 1, 20220Comments ByAnna Tang

Features

Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. Large areas of crumbling old buildings in Kowloon needed to be knocked down and replaced, everyone agreed. This was in the late 1980s, and the Hong Kong government, run by the British, said they would inject HK$100 million into a group called the Land Development Corporation. Problem solved? No, not…

August 1, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

The world’s first restaurant and earliest celebrity chef

Chinese finance firms could get ESG edge

A student told Confucius the most important thing in life

Return to the Kingdom of Bicycles

Tiny Hong Kong firm rises 14000% to become bigger than Disney

Chinese firms are world’s biggest earners, new data reveals

Chinese medicine is finding its place in the world

Beijing air ‘cleaner than London’: scientists astonished

Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

USAID: ‘Sterilize your women or you get nothing this year’

Hong Kong comic book artists take wing to show off their art

After the rain, the world looks different: thoughts on Trump’s return