BEIJING: Despite strong global economic headwinds, not least from the COVID-19 pandemic, China managed to achieve 8.1 per cent GDP growth last year, its highest rate in a decade. With that ...

which China farmed on a large scale until the late Tang Dynasty (618-907). However, the jacquard fabrics at the Paris show were created with the high-end market in mind. "Compared with other ...

Weeks before this show the Diesel team dispatched six miles worth of bolts of white fabric to art schools and street art groups in China ... looks featured knit jacquard check twinsets and ...

Yun'an Wang, the 38-year-old founder of Guming Holdings, has become the latest billionaire to emerge from China's booming bubble tea industry. Following Guming's successful IPO in Hong Kong ...

When Bloomberg Economics Chief Economist Tom Orlik published China: The Bubble That Never Pops (Oxford University Press) in 2020, the Chinese economy was facing threats on multiple fronts.

Sweet, milky and colourful - bubble tea is wildly popular in China, where people sipping through straws from large plastic cups is a common sight in high streets and shopping malls across the country.

Bubble tea has certainly hit a sweet spot with its many fans but it has left some investors with a bitter taste. Stock market debuts of two China-based chains have already flopped. And there are ...

The explosion in popularity of bubble tea has minted at least six billionaires in China over the past few years. Bubble tea is a sweet tea-based drink that typically comes with soft, chewy tapioca ...

Economics really is a dismal science. A reminder of that is the current fixation on finding parallels between China today and Japan in the 1990s.