BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

• When Graves Cost More Than Homes: Chinese Buyers Are Starting to Say “No”

  In the public imagination, the funeral and burial business used to be the ultimate “recession-proof”...

• The “Eastern Miracle Drink” Hailed by White Influencers—So Hard to Swallow It Makes You Question Everything

  Any seasoning turned into a beverage is probably destined to taste strange—but turmeric powder manag...

• Taylor Swift Doesn’t Understand Human Resources — or So the Debate Goes

  Recently, I came across a piece of news: CATL announced a pay raise for frontline employees—mainly r...

• With Student Demand Slowing, M&G Stationery and Its Peers Turn Their Focus to MINISO and Pop Mart

  By BaimianEdited by Yuanzhang Twenty years ago, you could find a familiar kind of shop outside almos...

• Asia-Pacific Stocks Slide Across the Board, Gold Jewelry Prices Snap a Five-Day Winning Streak, and the Yuan Keeps Climbing

  On December 16, major Asia-Pacific equity markets extended their pullback. Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed...

• After Massive Store Closures, 85°C Sets Its Sights on a Promising New Growth Track

  After reports of large-scale store closures, 85°C (85 Degrees C) is wasting no time charting its nex...

• Even TikTok Once Fought Hard for Every 10,000 New Users

  Our teammate Piaf worked at ByteDance back in 2017, when Douyin was only beginning to take shape and...

• Ride-Hailing Is a Service Industry—So Why Does It Act Like It’s in Charge of Everyone?

  Which other industry would dare speak to its customers this way? Somewhere along the line, hailing a...