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China is set to become the next big super power, and so the corporate wellness of your company may soon depend on getting into China. However, trying to establish a Chinese operation presents many potential pitfalls, due to differences in…

Over three-quarters of the air in China’s cities is no longer “safe”. This is according to the environment ministry's annual report, which says that the environmental wellness of China’s countryside is no better; facing an increasingly…

Global warming has been a prominent issue for many years now, with some countries up against pressure to lower their carbon footprint. One such country is China, which has stated that it will set a cap on its greenhouse gas emissions for…

More than two decades on from the end of the Cold War, the battleground is now no longer an ideological one but an economic one. And the world’s two economic powerhouses – the US and China – are now more likely to be competing over…

As local Chinese governments encourage people to consider traditional remedies to ward off the latest bird flu virus, a popular herb called ban lan gen, or blue root, has been flying off pharmacy shelves across the country. So far, wellness…

According to a new study conducted in China, a diet rich in soy could help women who are fighting lung cancer to live longer. A team of researchers found that women who ate a high-soy diet before they were diagnosed with lung cancer were…

China has announced a new program to help fight against diabetes. The three-year training program has been launched to improve diabetes intervention capacity. Specifically it will be attempting to improve the training of medical workers at…

Researchers from Hong Kong and Shanghai have identified a genetic marker for diabetes in the Chinese population, affecting 80% of citizens. According to the scientists from the Chinese University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, their…

In the last two decades, China has risen to become the world’s leading economic powerhouse. But while China has been booming economically, the nation’s track record on the environment makes less than impressive reading. Among the horror…

Diabetes is a condition which is sweeping the globe. It comes hand in hand with obesity and it's now said that around three-quarters of type two diabetics are obese. This means that the boom of fast food and improper diets across the world…

The rise in type 2 diabetes in China is a direct result of the country’s vast increase in prosperity, which has afforded its people luxuries such as a richer diet and a more sedentary lifestyle. As such, this health condition is affecting…

Chinese state media has revealed that the country’s health authorities will investigate allegations that a research project tested genetically modified (GMO) rice using Chinese children. It is known that one researcher has been suspended by…

China is very quickly becoming a super power in its own right. It’s an industrial giant, if you consider how many items we take for granted have ‘made in China’ stamped onto them you start to realise just how massive this manufacturing…

The air pollution problem in China has been well publicised. As the country has developed into an industrial superpower, the number of large factories and buildings producing pollution has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. This has left…

It has been well-known for a long time that China has a problem with air pollution. The country’s dynamic rise in industrial sites has been the culprit and it is a common experience to see the larger cities covered in a thick smog.…

Whether it’s fair or not, there is a stereotype that all Asian people thought of as being very slim. Chinese people, especially, are renowned for their slight builds. Of course, we all know that stereotypes are usually quite over the top…

The effects of the pollution in Beijing are comparable to that of a nuclear winter, Chinese environmental wellness scientists have warned. If enough nuclear bombs were detonated, it is said that so many particles would be thrown into the…

The medicinal benefits of mushrooms have long been praised within the field of complementary health. With the dietary and wellbeing benefits well beyond dispute, several varieties of mushrooms are thought to have anti-cancer properties to…

For many years, there have been concerns that the levels of pesticides in traditional, complementary Chinese medicine, and the World Health Organisation has reported that the herbs could actually do damage to our wellness and wellbeing. The…