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One of the world’s biggest e-commerce companies is known for rock-bottom prices – and allegedly brutal conditions
Americans addicted to Amazon could soon be wooed by a Chinese tech giant most of them have never heard of. Pinduoduo is planning to expand its reach to the US next month, according to reports in and . The company is known for delivering goods at rock-bottom prices – while putting its employees through conditions that a prominent labor activist says should horrify Americans.
Described by its founder, the former Google employee Colin Huang, as a cross between “Costco and Disneyland”, Pinduoduo has ridden a wave of meteoric Chinese tech growth to become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world since its founding in 2015.

Animation specialists GKIDS has acquired North American distribution rights for Chinese animated film “New Gods: Yang Jian,” with plans to release the film in theaters early next year.

IN the past decade, the world has increasingly witnessed a trend of "the East is rising, and the West is declining" in the spheres of economy, security and discourse power. Western countries, ...

Animation specialists GKIDS has acquired North American distribution rights for Chinese animated film “New Gods: Yang Jian,” with plans to release the film in theaters early next year. Directed by Ji ...

Ren Zhengfei writes in leaked memo that ‘chill will be felt by everyone’ and company must focus on survival
The founder of Huawei has delivered a stark warning for the tech company’s future, sparking alarm with the frankness of his assessment and what it signals for smaller businesses amid China’s economic troubles and a global downturn.
In a leaked internal memo, Ren Zhengfei told Huawei staff “the chill will be felt by everyone” and the company must focus on profit over cashflow and expansion if it is to survive the next three years, indicating further job cuts and divestments.

including an aggressive union-organized boycott of Chinese American businesses in 1896 and 1897. A group of Chinese businessmen won a court injunction against the boycott, so Butte remained ...

The U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would allow American accounting regulators to travel to Hong Kong to inspect the audit records of ...

The United States and China are nearing an agreement allowing American accounting regulators to travel to Hong Kong to inspect audit records of U.S.-listed Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal ...

U.S. regulators would travel to Hong Kong in a pact that could prevent many Chinese companies from being delisted from American stock exchanges.

New models explain conditions that led to 21 runners dying at China event, and could help improve accuracy of future forecasts
In late May 2021, 172 runners set out to tackle a 100km ultramarathon in north-west China. By the next day by hypothermia after an unexpectedly intense storm brought freezing temperatures, strong winds and hail to an upland section of the course. Weather forecasts had predicted a cold front, but had not captured how extreme the conditions would be.
There are no meteorological stations in the area and survivor reports are subjective, but now a new hyper-local weather model – using topographic data at tens of metre resolution rather than kilometres – indicates that the intense wind and rain caused temperatures to drop by 6.7°C. Taking the blizzard-like conditions into account and the effect of wet clothes on body temperature, the study – which is published in the – estimates that runners would have experienced an apparent temperature of -10°C.

Across Central and Eastern Europe, Beijing's partnership with Moscow since its invasion of Ukraine has governments distancing themselves from Chinese initiatives and looking for alternatives.