Posted on September 23, 2017
By Our Correspondent
China, Headline, Society
While western teenagers and young adults are forswearing alcohol at an increasing pace, the Chinese are taking to drinking with gusto, according to a new report by GlobalData, a London-based digital media company. The rise of a drinking culture is expected to drive the Chinese spirits market with an average compounded rise of 15 percent…
Posted on June 12, 2017
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, Society
The bottom of Chen Aiming’s life fell out standing on a Fuzhou rooftop last July 24. Recalling his 28 years of misery, there was little he could think of other than how unfairly life had treated him. He was born with a lisp in a poor rural family, ostracized by his peers as a child…
Posted on June 5, 2017
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, Society
Alzheimer’s is the fastest-growing, major fatal disease in China. Today there are at least 9.5 million diagnosed sufferers in China with perhaps as many cases undiagnosed. Almost one million Chinese are diagnosed every year with Alzheimer’s, with the number of new cases each year expected to accelerate sharply beginning around 2030. It is also the…
Posted on February 4, 2017
By George Russell
China, China, Features, Headline, Laos, Laos
With its massive cupolas, one shaped like a green crown and the other painted bright gold, Kings Romans Casino does not blend in with the forests of rural Southeast Asia, but the establishment is the heart of the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GT-SEZ), a controversial gambling hub in northern Laos. The area has mostly…
Posted on January 13, 2017
By George Russell
Asia in 2016, China, China, China, China, Headline
The Chinese government had much to be irritated about in 2016, both at home from its gyrating stock markets, and abroad from an unfavorable international ruling on its South China Sea expansion and attacks on its economic policy from Donald Trump, now President-elect of the United States. The Chinese government rejected an international tribunal’s ruling…
Posted on August 31, 2016
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, Society
Wedding photography in China is like no other: creative, elaborate and theatrical. A couple pose next to a bucolic Tuscan hillside with its bubbling fountain and clear skies, as the photographer clicks away. Next to them is a Victorian gentleman's drinking club and a salon straight out of the Palace of Versailles. Also within view…
Posted on July 15, 2016
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, Philippines, Society
On July 12, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea upheld the Philippine government’s challenge to China’s sweeping claim that it had “since time immemorial” ruled the seas between Hainan and Singapore. But almost overlooked in media reportage of the tribunal’s rulings were important clarifications of provisions of the United Nations Convention on…
Posted on April 29, 2016
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, Society
A three-hour streaming group sex tape aired recently in China by condom giant Durex seemed to leave viewers wanting more when the promised orgy stopped short of climax. The innovative condom and sex-toy marketer sprung its latest surprise to grab even more attention from consumers used to the company's humorous and risque pitches. This time…
Posted on January 13, 2016
By Our Correspondent
China, Headline, Society
China’s insatiable appetite for animal parts that have no apparent scientific value as either medicines or tonics is playing havoc with a rare fish and the world's smallest porpoise, both of which inhabit Mexico’s Gulf of California. The fish, the totoaba, can grow to as long as two meters and weigh as much as 100…
Posted on December 18, 2015
By Asia Sentinel
China, Headline, India, Society
China and India, often cited as two rising economic powerhouses, are less than fully equipped in terms of health care, a key attribute of national economic development, according to Amartya Sen. Emergence of the United States, Europe, Japan and Korea as developed economic powerhouses validates Sen’s argument. China and India, representing one out of three people…
