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As demand for menopause drugs soars, we trace the oestrogen production line from Chinese soya bean fields to European pharmacy shelves
In the centre of the factory stand 31 reactors: giant metal globes that can hold up to 10,000 litres of liquid each. Every week, gleaming stainless steel drums arrive by truck at this plant on the outskirts of Oss, in the Netherlands. Their contents are poured into the reactors through a funnel, dissolved, and then heated to boiling point. Standing by one of the vast containers, the factory manager, Robert Dam, compares it to a “cooking pot”. Peering inside, we can see the light liquid bubbling away.
At Dam’s factory, a white powder distilled from soya beans and shipped from China is turned into a precious commodity: strong synthetic oestrogen. The plant at Oss, owned by the Dutch subsidiary of South Africa’s largest drugmaker Aspen Pharmacare, produces the most potent variant of oestrogen, known as oestradiol, destined for the UK market. It will be added to gels, sprays and patches used by more than 1 million women in Britain to manage the symptoms of menopause.

Linda Chang is determined to break through barriers – language barriers to healthcare, in particular. Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, Chang, whose family speaks Cantonese, saw first-hand the ...

Brigham Young University, in conjunction with the University of Utah, was named a National Resource Center for Latin American and Asian Studies, providing the two schools with $7 million in funding.

A young Chinese American girl, enamored by the glitz and glamor of the big screen, starts skipping school to sneak onto film sets. It’s been said that movie executives, upon noticing her, gave her the ...

Every few days, a new counterintelligence story breaks in the media. It's invariably a bad one. Another penetration of U.S. intelligence by a hostile spy service, another cache of industrial secrets ...

Comments from Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi come after meeting with US secretary of state Antony Blinken on sidelines of UN general assembly
China has accused the United States of sending “very wrong, dangerous signals” on Taiwan after the US secretary of state told his Chinese counterpart on Friday that the maintenance of peace and stability over Taiwan was vitally important.
Taiwan was the focus of the 90-minute, “direct and honest” talks between the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, on the margins of the UN general assembly in New York, a US official told reporters.

Joyce Chen escaped from Beijing in 1949 ahead of the communist takeover of China. She carved out an unexpected career in the United States by popularizing Chinese food.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan have relaxed their pandemic rules, as they look to bolster their economies and play catch-up with much of the world.

Immigrant. Mother. Entrepreneur. Inventor. American. Born in Beijing and raised in Shanghai, Chen most notably popularized Chinese food in the United States with her innovative Cambridge ...

Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan have relaxed their pandemic rules, as they look to bolster their economies and play catch-up with much of the world.

Poster of Chinese comedy drama film "Give Me Five." (Photo credit: Well Go USA) The film follows a young man who is transported back in time, where he accidentally alters his parents' pasts. Now he ...

The film follows a young man who is transported back in time, where he accidentally alters his parents' pasts. Now he must reunite the pair - or risk never being born. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) - ...