Culture
Shangahai Fashion Week Returns
Recovery, or the green shoots of one in any case, was at the forefront of this edition of Shanghai Fashion Week, which began its 10-day run in the last week of March 2 April 2023 | […]
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Held prisoner to privatisation
Multinational prison contractors reap billion-dollar government contracts with soaring profits throughout the pandemic while inmates and their loved ones languish through uncertainty, lockdowns and COVID-19 outbreaks. An investigation by Stephanie Tran into Australia’s privatised prisons. […]
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Who takes weight of racism?
Ordinary Chinese-Australians are being forced to carry both the weight of racism and suspicion on their backs—much of the abuse has emanated from our institutions 16 October 2021 | Words and Main Image by Marcus […]
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What was I doing in China?
APAC News’s founder and editor has travelled extensively across China but not on any political missions, Marcus Reubenstein explains his engagement has not been through politics, or business, it has mainly been through the lens […]
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Being Chinese in Australia: the good, the bad and the ugly
Chinese-Australian community leaders have cautioned a number of the findings of a Lowy Institute report into the Chinese-Australian diaspora have been left wide open to interpretation and its findings could be used to further marginalise […]
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Please put a face to this name
Western reports on COVID-19 have overwhelmingly been produced under a simple banner of ‘China’. It’s a homogeneous label that ignores the human face of Chinese people everywhere. 27 February 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein Like almost […]
Business
Closed mind or open book?
In cross cultural communication words and their meanings can easily be lost 14 June 2020 Tas Walter | Image: Aaron Burden/chuttersnap) What’s in a word? Sometimes a lot, especially when it comes to global communications. […]
Business
China’s digital wolves
China’s tech giants are running in packs looking for employees willing to devour the competition 31 May 2020 | Tas Walter (Image: APAC Digital / Marc-Olivier Jodoin) Late last year a senior strategist at a […]
Business
A digital map for China e-commerce
Thinking of entering China’s e-commerce market? Get a map or get a big surprise 23 May 2020 | Tas Walter People always attribute language and culture as the most significant challenges when doing business with […]
Culture
Tmall: a guide for high-end brands
Chinese consumers have plenty of choice in online shopping, global brands also face a choice in which platform is best for them 12 May 2020 | Gemma A. Williams, Jing Daily During the COVID-19 outbreak, […]
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Fashion moves into ‘digital isolation’
Shanghai Fashion Week has just showcased its autumn-winter 2020 edition online, making it the world’s first fashion-week event at this scale to go fully digital 10 April 2020 | Christine Chou, Alizila (Image: SHFW) More […]
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Homeleisure: the new fashion category for China
China’s population was the first to face a major lockdown, which came during the nation’s busiest festival, from this young Chinese consumers have led a new fashion trend 1 April 2020 | Jiaqi Luo, […]
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Why are Chinese-Australians taking social distancing seriously?
Thanks to a culture which recognises individuals should act with the greater good in mind, Chinese-Australians have potentially spared tens of thousands of Australians from COVID-19 infection 25 March 2020 | Marcus Reubenstein Short of […]
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Too Big to Fail: Qantas and coronavirus
With small businesses failing in the midst of a major crisis, big businesses, like Australia’s national airline, will go to the head of the queue when it comes to government bailouts, Michael West investigates 18 […]
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Could racism be the Real Sick Man?
An opinion piece by academic Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal has provoked anger in China (main image digitally manipulated) Have western reports on the coronavirus crisis pulled aside a mask that reveals […]