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In 1991, four years after joining Amorepacific, his family’s South Korean beauty conglomerate, Suh Kyungbae travelled to France to figure out why the company’s skin care line was selling so poorly...

Claire Fu The author is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times, covering China. When Lin Yunyun started selling diapers two years ago on Pinduoduo, China’s fast-growing e-commerce site,...

A sell-off in markets around the world quickened pace Monday as investors grew uneasy about signs of a slowing US economy, with stocks tumbling across Asia. The declines were especially pronounced in...

As gold surged this year to its highest price ever, Xena Lin joined the frenzy by making monthly purchases of gold “beans,” pebble-like morsels of the precious metal. For Lin, a 25-year-old...

Claire Fu covers news in mainland China for The New York Times in Seoul. She joined The Times in 2018 When Country Garden, the biggest developer in China’s increasingly troubled real estate sector,...

Claire Fu covers news in mainland China for The New York Times in Seoul. She joined The Times in 2018. Earlier this year, David Yang was brimming with confidence about the prospects for his perfume...