• OPINION

  China's 220 million seniors may reshape the world

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 31/05/2017

  » For decades, Nestle SA has tried to get its infant milk powder into the hands of China's new mothers with promises of brighter, healthier babies. Now it's trying to do the same for the elderly. Last week, the company launched "Nestle YIYANG Fuel for brainTM senior milk powder", a formula designed to help China's seniors "refuel their brains and start a new smart life".

• OPINION

  China's hidden pollution oozes its way to the surface

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 12/05/2017

  » Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping directed his government to build a new city for the "millennium to come". It would rise on rural land about 100km south of Beijing, guided by the principles of "ecological protection and green development". And it would become a model for a new kind of urban expansion.

• OPINION

  Used to Big Brother, Chinese learn value of privacy

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 21/03/2017

  » China's Communist government has never shown much concern for the privacy of Chinese citizens. If you have something to hide, the thinking goes, we probably need to know it. In one form or another, surveillance and monitoring have evolved into a well-honed form of social control. And as a result, neither companies nor consumers have traditionally had very high expectations for individual privacy.

• OPINION

  China's Great Firewall yet another trade barrier

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 28/03/2017

  » The San Francisco-based photo-sharing site Pinterest would seem to rank low on the list of potential threats to China. Beloved by fashion designers, photographers, cooks and hobbyists, the seven-year-old website is a global hub for the sharing of images, trends and ideas on topics ranging from living-room design to what to cook at your Saturday barbecue.

• OPINION

  Why people still live, and die, on rubbish dumps

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 17/03/2017

  » When a mountain of trash collapsed at the fetid Reppi dump outside of Addis Ababa on Monday, at least 82 people died. It could've been worse: Hundreds of people live atop Reppi, Ethiopia's biggest waste dump, trying to make a living from salvaging what city residents throw away. Despite well-known dangers, and the best efforts of the government, they've done so for decades.

• OPINION

  Amazon might just transform how goods are shipped

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 16/02/2017

  » For consumers, Amazon's made shipping easy: Just choose the desired delivery date for your goodies and click. For the manufacturers who have to get those products to you, however, shipping remains a troublesome, inefficient, stubbornly analog business. Your "one-click" often translates into multiple phone calls, emails, faxes and reams of paperwork -- all coordinated by a knowledgeable and well-connected professional.

• OPINION

  As EBay returns to China, it may be onto something

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 24/02/2017

  » About a decade ago, EBay Inc made a legendary retreat from the Chinese auction business in the face of growing local competition. It was a defeat so humiliating that it became a business school case study. Since then, however, the Chinese e-commerce market has changed drastically -- and so has EBay. As the company makes its return to the mainland, it may be at the forefront of an important trend in online trade.

• OPINION

  KL has plenty of reasons to test Kim

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 09/03/2017

  » It didn't take long for Malaysia to retaliate against North Korea for barring its citizens from leaving the country on Tuesday. Within hours, a security cordon had surrounded North Korea's Malaysian embassy to prevent diplomatic staff from leaving. The response may not be legal under international law, but it's certainly understandable. North Korea is not only accused of sponsoring an assassination in Malaysia's busiest airport, using a banned nerve agent. It's since taunted and bullied Malaysian officials attempting to investigate the crime.

• OPINION

  One way for China to stop the world's next pandemic

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 28/02/2017

  » The deadliest outbreak of H7N9 bird flu since its discovery in 2013 is sweeping across China. It's caused at least 100 deaths and has been detected in half the country's provinces. So far, the virus seems to be spreading only between birds and the humans who slaughter them for food. But the potential for human-to-human transmission -- the trigger for a full-blown pandemic -- can't be ruled out. In response, Chinese authorities have temporarily shut down live poultry markets in some of the country's biggest cities.

• OPINION

  Alibaba's counterfeit woes continue

  News, Adam Minter, Published on 05/01/2017

  » It's hardly a happy new year for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Just before Christmas, the US Trade Representative added Alibaba's Taobao e-commerce site to a list of "notorious markets" that traffic in counterfeits. That's an unseemly place for a publicly held company: Other members include a Chinese shopping mall that specialises in counterfeit leather goods and a Paraguayan border market rife with organised crime that hawks everything from fake Ray-Bans to knockoff DVDs.

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