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40 years of ‘Mario’ games that have grown up with fans across the world
SURROUNDED by thousands of objects bearing the likeness of Nintendo’s moustachioed plumber, 40-year-old Kikai reflects that his “life would be totally different without Mario” who also marks four decades ...
September 13, 2025, Saturday

After losing a job, he builds a ‘UN’ on the wheels
IN Shanghai, most ride-hailing trips take place in silence. The driver focuses on the road while the passenger scrolls through their phones, exchanging only a destination at the beginning and a brief ...
Zhu Qing and Yang Meiping | September 11, 2025, Thursday

Global productions, artists find a home in Shanghai
“i’M shocked that so many tickets have already sold,” remarked Japanese actress Kanna Hashimoto on the Shanghai debut of “Spirited Away.” The stage production, a live adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved ...
Li Xueqing | September 11, 2025, Thursday

TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY TODAY: The burgeoning market for smart glasses
WEARING smart glasses or headsets for work, study or gaming was long seen as a futuristic concept until wearable devices came onto the market to turn fiction to fact. While international tech giants ...
Zhu Shenshen | September 11, 2025, Thursday

Shanghai in motion as seen through eyes of a lensman
ON a steamy August night in Shanghai, the Liu Haisu Art Museum darkened and flashed black-and-white images of a city. The city that emerged was both familiar and distant: flooded streets where commuters ...
Tan Weiyun | September 9, 2025, Tuesday

H1 earnings a bitter pill for many traditional Chinese medicine firms
THE bottom lines of traditional Chinese medicine purveyors in the first half of the year weren’t as healthy as the centuries-old herbal remedies they dispense. Many struggled to turn a decent profit. Pien ...
Tan Weiyun | September 9, 2025, Tuesday

Dancing tango keeps Parkinson’s symptoms at bay in Buenos Aires
WHEN the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson’s that plagues her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise, as part of an innovative treatment ...
September 9, 2025, Tuesday

Pacifiers, the latest stress fix in China
FORGET squishy or fidget toys. China’s latest stress-busting accessory is straight out of the nursery: pacifiers for grown-ups. Scroll through social media, and you’ll find adults popping pastel soothers ...
Guo Jiayi | September 6, 2025, Saturday

Shanghai’s efforts to fast-track patent approvals power industry innovation
SHANGHAI’S efforts to accelerate patent approvals are starting to show results, with the city cutting the average authorization period for invention patents to just three months — down from the two to ...
Tan Weiyun | September 6, 2025, Saturday

China’s bubble tea boom brews rural growth, overseas presence
ALTHOUGH the traditional spring harvest season is now over, in the humming workshop of a tea company in the city of Shengzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, the aroma of fresh leaves still lingers in ...
August 30, 2025, Saturday
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