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Of the 18 deity halls in Beijing’s White Cloud Temple, the only one requiring a yellow sash to cordon off its long line of supplicants is that of the god of wealth. The sizeable figurine looks down solemnly at me. His golden robes and black, isosceles triangle of a beard only add to his austere demeanour. A short-haired woman arrives at the...

On October 5, 2015, a discovery made in the 1970s launched 85-year-old Tu Youyou into the international spotlight when the Chinese medical researcher was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work extracting artemisinin, an anti-malarial compound, from Artemisia annua, a herb originally used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that is known today as sweet wormwood. The official...

Global power shift doesn't happen in a day. We have just witnessed one chapter of the historic event, as President Xi Jinping concludes his state visit to the United Kingdom, once the seat of an empire on which the sun never set. Xi is the third Chinese head of state to have been the...

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine Coinciding with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to Britain, the recent decision by the UK government to ease visa regulations for Chinese tourists is aimed at recouping some of the £1.2 billion (US$1.8 billion) reportedly lost annually by the UK...