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To win China’s market, overseas drugmakers urged to make locally

SHANGHAI is speeding up access to innovative drugs and pushing overseas pharmaceutical companies to invest in local manufacturing as competition among Chinese biotech hubs heats up. A package of reforms ...

Tan Weiyun | November 29, 2025, Saturday

Scientists say most dog breeds have some wolf DNA — even chihuahuas

THOSE tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced this week by US scientists, who were surprised to find ...

November 29, 2025, Saturday

Power play: How the ‘electrostate’ model is changing China’s future

IN late 2023, a reporter for the Financial Times stood before a power plant in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, watching an 18-inch-diameter boiler’s maw blasting out a flame at 1,600 degrees Celsius. He later ...

Noah Gao | November 27, 2025, Thursday

Chinese scientist turns brain signals into action as BCI industry grows

A teacher in the recording sits still, her hands resting on her lap. She cannot speak after a brain injury, yet a full paragraph of comments she leaves for her students appears on a nearby screen within ...

Yang Jian | November 27, 2025, Thursday

Rewi Alley museum opened in NZ to commemorate ‘old friend’ of China

A small museum has opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, to honor the legacy of Rewi Alley, a man who lived in China for six decades and has become a symbol of relations between the two countries. Alley ...

Andy Boreham | November 27, 2025, Thursday

Can collectible design become a real market in China?

INSIDE West Bund Art Center, a vast former aircraft factory that hosted Shanghai’s Art Week, an oversized chair made of folded sheet metal stood like a monument to precision. Nearby, vintage furniture ...

Tan Weiyun | November 20, 2025, Thursday

Shanghai unveils mobile tax refund for overseas visitors

SHANGHAI was among the first cities in China to pilot the departure tax refund program. Now, the “Tax Refund in Your Palm” mobile service platform has been launched on a trial basis in selected tax refund ...

Zhu Yile | November 18, 2025, Tuesday

Rise of robots: the promise of physical AI

A pair of swiveling, human-like robotic arms, built for physical artificial intelligence research, mirror the motions of an operator in a VR headset twirling his hands like a magician. With enough practice, ...

November 18, 2025, Tuesday

Renewable energy outpaces fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA

RENEWABLE energy is still expanding faster than fossil fuels around the world despite policy changes in the United States, with oil demand possibly peaking “around 2030,” the International Energy Agency ...

November 15, 2025, Saturday

International outdoor brands leave their footprint in city

THE city’s appetite for movement isn’t slowing. As Shanghai leans further into its fitness-and-fresh-air era, the storefronts tell the story: international outdoor and sports brands keep arriving, staking ...

Zhu Yile | November 13, 2025, Thursday

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