“There have been huge developments in cockroach breeding and research in the past few years,” Liu said.
About 2,000km (1,200 miles) away, in the southwestern city of Xichang in Sichuan province, stands a two-storey building in which 6 billion cockroaches are bred to be turned into ulcer-curing drugs.
“This is like a five-star hotel for cockroaches,” said Geng Funeng, chairman of Gooddoctor Pharmaceutical Group, whose facility it is.
Perfectly ordinary-looking from the outside, with nicely maintained lawns and glass outer walls reflecting the sky, a faint odour gives away its purpose – a mixture of mustiness, oiliness and bitterness. Read More...
At City One Shatin, a major housing estate in the area, a total of 55 flats were sold in August alone, while there were 29 transactions in the same month last year. Last month, there were 30 deals. The average price per square foot increased to about HK$12,720 in August, representing a 12-month high, according to Land Registry records.
Across the whole district, secondary market sales improved by nearly 60 per cent in August on a month-on-month basis. Read More...
While such depictions largely mirrored the gender norms and roles of the time, they occasionally transcended these constraints.
And more importantly, they were an active, albeit much less known, force behind the production and advancement of Buddhist art itself – both as devout practitioners and influential patrons.
“Unsullied, Like a Lotus in Mud” at the Hoam Art Museum in Yongin, in South Korea’s Gyeonggi province, is a groundbreaking exhibition that, for the first time in the world, revisits centuries-old Buddhist art of Korea, China and Japan through the specific lens of gender. Read More...
