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Asia | China | Business

Alipay is investing $145 million to grow women’s soccer in China

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China's national women's soccer team just got a big boost from online payments app Alipay. The Alibaba-affiliated company is taking the lead on a 1 billion yuan ($145 million) commitment to support Chinese women's soccer over the next decade. The foundations of Alibaba (BABA)co-founder Jack Ma and executive vice chairman Joe Tsai are also taking part in the pledge. It is the biggest investment in women's soccer in China ever, according to Alipay. Alipay wants to bring "technology, funds and resources to better support the development of women's soccer in China," a spokesman for
Asia | China | Arts

‘Shanghai Is an Adventurous Place’: Why Dealer Almine Rech Is Opening Her Fifth Gallery in the Chinese City Next Month

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With spaces in Paris, London, New York, and Brussels, French dealer Almine Rech has quietly reached mega-gallery status, and now she’s set to add yet another location to her list: Shanghai. Rech says she has witnessed the Asian art market blossom over the last decade, so much so that it no longer made business sense to just participate in the fairs there. “The market has evolved a lot,” Rech tells artnet News. “Now, for instance, in the West Bund fair in Shanghai or Art Basel Hong Kong—which I’ve participated in for much longer as it’s an older fair—we sell mostly to Asians
Asia | China | Activism

Wife of Chinese president meets international students

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Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, on Thursday met with a group of international graduate students from China Women's University (CWU). Peng and the students watched a short film on their study and life in China. She also watched the students as they recited poetry and danced. As the students are about to finish their studies and return to their home countries, Peng said she believes that studying in China had helped them deepen their understanding of the country. She expressed her hope that the students will play a role as a bridge between China and their home countries, an
Asia | China | Crimes

Report claims thousands of North Korean women sold into sex slavery in China

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Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in China, where many are sold as wives to Chinese men while others are forced into prostitution or to live stream sex acts against their will, a new report claims. The investigation, by the London-based Korea Future Initiative (KFI), includes shocking first-hand reports of girls as young as 12 being raped and women being forced to participate in cybersex for days without eating. Though female defectors have long been targets of human traffickers, the problem has been exacerbated in recent ye
Asia | China | Business

China’s top businesswoman is a single mother who hasn’t taken a day off in 26 years

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Forbes China released its latest annual ranking of the top 100 outstanding businesswomen in China. Topping the list was Dong Mingzhu, president of Gree Electric Appliances, the country’s biggest air-conditioner maker. The company, which is listed in Shenzhen, has a market cap of 151 billion yuan ($22 billion), and posted revenue of 82 billion yuan in the first nine months of 2016, according to S&P Capital IQ data. It employs some 70,000 people. Dong is known as a rare outspoken businesswoman in China, never shy from engaging in wars of words with rivals. The 62-year-old from Nanjing ha
Asia | China | Health

Woman, 61, gives birth in China as grieving ‘one child policy’ parents seek second chance

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A 61-year-old woman has became what is believed to be China’s second oldest mother, according to media reports, in a growing trend of older births among desperate couples who have been left childless by Beijing’s draconian one-child policy. The woman, who was identified by her surname Zhang, gave birth to a boy in China’s eastern Zhejiang province through in vitro fertilization (IVF). The C-section delivery came two years after the death of her 30-year-old daughter, who was her only child at the time.
Asia | China | Activism

How one brave woman is taking on growing might of China’s censors

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This was hardly a tabloid headline, but the article was explosive anyway, with an illustration of a mouth gagged by layers of masking tape to drive home the message. China’s most powerful journalist was taking on Beijing over censorship. Within hours the article attacking government controls – “Story about adviser’s free speech comments removed from Caixin website” – had been censored itself, but not before screenshots and reports of the financial magazine’s extraordinary challenge had rippled around the internet. Editor Hu Shuli has spent decades nurturing her connections
Asia | China | History

Chen Hengzhe: Modern China’s 1st Female Professor

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Chen Hengzhe (1890—1976) was the first female professor, and one of the first prolific female writers, in modern Chinese history. Born to a traditional and educated family in Wujin, east China's Zhejiang Province, Chen learned about literature and arts from an early age under the influence of those around her. In particular, her uncle taught her about science, culture and women's spirit of independence in the West. Because of her upbringing, she rebelled against arranged marriage and left home to live with her aunt. In 1914, she was accepted at the acclaimed Tsinghua University as one
Asia | China | Activism

China Is Said to Force Closing of Women’s Legal Aid Center

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The Chinese authorities have ordered a leading women’s legal aid center in Beijing to shut down operations, the center’s founder said on Friday, another sign of a continuing crackdown on civil society. As word spread of the closing of the Beijing Zhongze Women’s Legal Counseling and Service Center, many women’s rights advocates expressed shock. The center was highly symbolic for having been born of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, a moment when China, struggling to be accepted internationally after the 1989 military suppression of pro-democracy d
Asia | China | Technology

She’s Connected: China’s Female Internet Users Top 300 Mil

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The number of Chinese female Internet users has exceeded 300 million for the first time, according to a report released by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on January 22. By December 2015, China had 688 million people using the Internet, representing around half of the country's population, the report said. Some 90 percent of them surf the net through mobile phones. Female Internet users accounted for some 46 percent of the total, compared with the ratio of nearly 44 percent in 2014. The online population is seeing huge rises in growth overall. In December 2015, Ch
Asia | China | Activism

China’s most prominent women’s rights lawyer has been arrested by Chinese authorities

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Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody last July and accused the next month of inciting subversion and "causing a disturbance". Wang is the best-known human rights lawyer targeted in an unprecedented nationwide sweep by Chinese police last July, during which hundreds of lawyers were detained. A formal arrest usually leads to a trial and
Asia | China | Science

Budding Women Scientists Selected for China’s Academic High-fliers Scheme

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Two young female scholars have been shortlisted for China's ambitious scheme to sponsor its most promising scientists, the Thousand Talents Plan, according to a recent announcement by organizers. Liu Mingzhen and Yang Shu, both born in 1990, will each be granted their own scientific research facilities, a living allowance of 500,000 yuan (U.S. $77,000), and a scientific research fund of 1-3 million yuan (U.S. $150,000-300,000) over the next three years.
Asia | China | Activism

100 women did yoga on that vertigo-inducing glass bridge in China

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A group of 100 fearless women got together for a photoshoot on a glass bridge in China, which spans 900 feet and hangs a vertical 600 feet over the bottom of a gorge between two mountains. The plexiglass bridge was just opened in late September this year in Shiniuzhai park in Pinjiang County, in China's Hunan province. Local reports have billed the yoga stunt as a gathering of yoga enthusiasts, but given the ladies' identical outfits and presence of news photographers, it's likely a publicity exercise for the park.
Asia | China | Politics

Chairwomen Tsai Ing-wen offers advice ahead of historic China-Taiwan meeting

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Anticipating the historic China-Taiwan meeting on November 7th in Singapore, the chairwoman and presidential candidate of Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen has urged President Ma Ying-jeou against limiting Taiwan’s future for the sake of his own legacy. Tsai advised the President by indicating that during his time in office, Ma and his pro-Beijing Nationalist Party (KMT) have developed warmer ties with China, but Ma should not make any promises he cannot fulfill himself. She added that he should be careful about sacrificing Taiwan’s future for perso

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