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Joyce ZK Lim

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Sep 12, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Joyce ZK Lim

    Be Monkey King? Young Chinese find work in theme parks’ role-playing boom (opens the original)

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    Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments Yao Fancheng plays ancient Chinese poet Su Shi at the China Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen. He makes sure to draw from verses familiar to people of different generations to “ensure that everybody can participate”. SHENZHEN – It’s not what most people would want to be called. An NPC, or “non-player character”, is internet slang for someone seen to lack independent thought, a term borrowed from video-game speak. But in China, the term

  2. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Joyce ZK Lim

    Durian trade is a high-stakes hustle in Chinese border town (opens the original)

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    PINGXIANG, Guangxi – Su Wenpeng once drove a small lorry ferrying durians from Vietnam to China, but that hustle no longer works, he says. Chinese people are consuming so much of the fruit that each shipment now needs a freight truck many times the size. These days, “everything is shipped by the container”, said Su, who has since sold his lorry and drives trucks for a logistics company instead. The old way of “using small vehicles like ants moving houses – that doesn’t exist any more”. China rel

  3. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Joyce ZK Lim, Nga Pham

    Rumbling trucks, busy border crossing: How China feeds Vietnam’s factory boom (opens the original)

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    PINGXIANG, China/HAIPHONG, Vietnam – The boxes in Li Anzhang’s warehouse will not be there for long. “There’s a big gap to fill in Vietnam, so we must quickly send these across.” Around him are stacks of cardboard cartons marked with the names of electronics bigwigs Foxconn and Nokia, as well as an array of Apple suppliers. A worker steers huge bundles of aluminium sheets – “for BYD”, Li says – into a waiting truck. The goods tagged “made in China” have travelled from manufacturing powerhouses s

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Joyce ZK Lim

    Chinese malls hold quirky contests to draw shoppers as footfall slows (opens the original)

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    Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments People participate in a garlic peeling contest at the Longgang Wanda Plaza in Shenzhen on Aug 8. SHENZHEN – Malls in China are getting creative to woo shoppers. Their latest gambit: hosting quirky contests, apparently the stranger, the better. Who can fling a slipper off their foot the farthest? Who will shell melon seeds the fastest? Who might be the first to fan a pig-shaped balloon to the finish line? Such events have sprung up in s

  5. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Lim Min Zhang, Joyce ZK Lim

    Chinese President Xi Jinping urges equitable development at Shanghai AI forum (opens the original)

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    Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments Visitors examine Huawei's Atlas 950 SuperPod at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17. BEIJING/SHANGHAI – Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 17 urged more equitable global access to artificial intelligence, while hailing the establishment of a new international cooperation organisation in Shanghai as a key milestone in the technology’s development history. In a 20-minute keynote address at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in S

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