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Venture Studio Green Planet Foods Launches To Bring ‘Affordable Wellness’ To Mainland China
Green Planet Foods, a Singapore-based venture studio focused on plant-based food and advanced farming technologies, has just launched its venture studio. It will act as both a product innovator and an incubator that invests in solutions!-->…
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Beyond Meat: First Foreign Plant-Based Company To Develop Production Facility In China
Beyond Meat has just announced an agreement with Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone (JXEDZ) to design and develop its manufacturing footprint in the area with a new facility with ready access to Shanghai. This will make!-->…
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New Chinese Plant-Based Startup Hey Maet Secures Investment With Beyond Meat Supplier
Hey Maet, a new plant-based meat startup that just entered the Chinese alternative meat industry, has recently announced significant investment as well as a partnership with Shuangta Food, a pea protein company that supplies Beyond Meat.!-->…
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Singapore Startup Alchemy Foodtech Targets China For International Expansion Of Its GI-Lowering Powder
Alchemy Foodtech recently revealed that it is eyeing China as its next potential market opportunity after launching its first product, Alchemy Fibre, in its home base in Singapore. The product, which comes in powder form, lowers the!-->…
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China Toughens Sustainability Rules For Fishing Fleet, But Impact Relies On Enforcement
China has revised sustainability rules governing its distant-water fishing fleet, which has often made headlines for its illegal activities. While the new rules will mean tougher penalties for fishing companies and captains that break the!-->…
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Climate Change: Stronger Typhoons Growing Threat For Asia
By: Tim Hornyak
New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from around the world gathered virtually in July for a joint conference of the Japan Geoscience!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Starfield Secures US$10M Series A Funding & Launches Across Plant-Based Meat In 20 China Food Chains
Starfield Food Science & Technology, a Chinese food tech developing plant-based meat alternatives, has recently announced the completion of its Series A funding round ahead of a roll out of its products across more than 20 foodservice!-->…
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20 Things To Know About Howey Ou, China’s Only Teenage Climate Striker
Meet Howey Ou, the 17-year-old girl who is the only teenage climate striker in China (there are other activists, but Ou is the only public striker). Every Friday, Howey takes to the streets to publicly demand the Chinese government to take!-->…
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White Castle China Debuts Omnipork Kimchi Burger As Plant-Based Demand Rises
White Castle China, the fast food chain famous for its sliders, has just partnered with Green Monday to begin offering a vegetarian Omnipork Kimchi Burger across its outlets in the country. It comes as demand from Chinese consumers for!-->…
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Omnipork: Shanghai Wonton Chain Launches Plant-Based Dumplings At 500 Locations
August 12 2020 Update: The Omnipork Shanghai launch has been so successful, with some branches reportedly selling out the first week that Gll Wonton has announced they will go ahead with a China nationwide launch of the plant-based menu!-->…
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Global Fashion Brands Complicit In Uighur Forced Labour, Warns Rights Groups
Some of the world’s largest fashion houses and retailers are complicit in human rights abuses and forced labour being carried out against the Uighur minority Muslim people in the Xinjiang region of China, says a coalition of human rights!-->…
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Cargill Launches AltProtein Meat-Free Brand PlantEver For Chinese Consumers
Following its partnership with fast food giant KFC to launch chicken-free plant-based nuggets in China earlier this year, Cargill will now be debuting its own consumer facing plant-based meat brand. Called PlantEver, the new brand will!-->…
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Beyond Meat Now Sold At Metro China Supermarket Chain
After entering consumer retail in China earlier this month, Beyond Meat will now sell its plant-based burger patties at select Metro China supermarket locations in Shanghai starting today. It marks the El Segundo, California-based food!-->…
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Suspected Bubonic Plague Case Reported In Inner Mongolian City
A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. After a hospital in Bayannur alerted the authorities on Sunday (July 5), the local health committee of the city has issued a warning!-->…
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Beyond Meat Launches Retail Products In Mainland China In Collaboration With Alibaba Group
Beyond Meat, the El Segundo, California-based food tech at the forefront of the plant-based industry, has just entered consumer retail in mainland China. Following its recent high-profile foodservice partnerships with Starbucks China and!-->…
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Chinese National Advisory Body: Cell-Based Meat Development Key For Future Food Supply
In a plenary session between the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC), cell-based meat development was discussed as a major solution to make China’s food supply more!-->…
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Lever VC & Brinc Launch China Alternative Protein Joint Investment Fund & Accelerator To Fund Domestic Startups
Hong Kong and New York-based alternative protein venture capital fund Lever VC and Asia venture accelerator firm Brinc have announced a new joint investment fund and accelerator to support plant-based and cultivated meat and dairy meat and!-->…
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ALDI & Green Monday Announce China Partnership, Debut Omnipork Plant-Based Ready Meals In Shanghai
ALDI China has just launched its new line of meatless ready-made convenience meals in Shanghai made with Omnipork, the vegan-friendly pork mince analogue made by Hong Kong-based food tech OmniFoods. The new products will be available for!-->…
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China Food Tech Zhenmeat To Launch Vegan Crayfish & Pork Tenderloin
Chinese homegrown food tech Zhenmeat has recently revealed two new products – plant-based pork tenderloin and crayfish – which will be available in domestic restaurant chains. The latest additions to the startup’s original line up, which!-->…
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Ocean Park Dreams: How The Hong Kong Tourist Attraction Fuels The Taiji Trade Supplying China’s Dolphinariums
Between September and March every year, fishermen in the Japan's small coastal town of Taiji go on a gruesome hunt for dolphins. Famously depicted in the documentary film The Cove, the so-called Taiji dolphin hunters lure pods of dolphins!-->…
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Pangolin Scales Removed From China’s Official Traditional Medicine List
Update (July 2): This article has been updated to reflect that while China's 2020 pharmacopoeia has removed pangolins from the key traditional Chinese medicine list, it is still included as an ingredient in several listed patent medicines!-->…
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