Tag: asia
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This March, a group of women gathered under the roof of a modest wooden shop in the Kurisa fishing village on Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo. They held… more ›
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QUANZHOU, China/TAPIEI — In the southeastern Chinese port city of Quanzhou, a near-derelict factory hit by U.S. sanctions four years ago has discreetly come back to life. Fujian Jinhua Integrated… more ›
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It sounded too good to be true, almost like finding a cheat code for Chinese real estate. Tired of big city life after years in Beijing and Hangzhou, freelancer Pan… more ›
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Shein (pronounced She In) is the fastest-growing ecommerce company in the world. It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of the past… more ›
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Like thousands of others in China, they have poured their savings into buying a presale apartment — only to see the developer fall into financial difficulties and halt construction on the… more ›
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Today’s fatalism about China is the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Demographics tell a different story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/how-united-states-beats-china/ more ›
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These changes will permanently alter the map of our energy economy. But they suffer from one major limiting factor: the mineral inputs are increasingly expensive and increasingly unavailable. Solar and… more ›
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Today’s fatalism about China is the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Demographics tell a different story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/how-united-states-beats-china/ more ›
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In the past few years, several other online sari retailers have popped up in Pakistan, including Lahore-based Saareeka and Karachi-based Haseen Saree by Sidra. Lahore-based writer and sari aficionado Mina… more ›