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Key takeaways: •      Leading Sichuan-style hotpot chain Yang Guofu has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, extending a recent series of restaurant listing applications •      Company has expanded rapidly using a franchise model, but poses investor risk due to its nature as a family-run business

They’re known as “techno-sapiens.” In order to raise their adopted Chinese daughter, a struggling Anglo tea shop owner and a Black businesswoman — married but growing ever-more-faintly distant from each other — go to a discount retail outlet known as Second Siblings and buy a used techno, a companion wired…

In Kogonada’s directorial debut, “Columbus,” he explored the “modernism of the soul,” through the architecture of Columbus, Indiana, and the unique connection between two strangers seeing each other, and themselves, against the backdrop of the environments they share. In his second feature film, “After Yang,” Kogonada once again takes up…

Thoughtful and nicely unsettling, sci-fi film finds meaning in the memories of an automated companion.

China is stepping up efforts to ease broad public anger over a mother of eight children who was found chained by the neck in a shack after local authorities were accused of downplaying the matter.

Chinese social media has blown up over a horrific video showing a mother of eight chained by her neck to the wall in a dirty home, apparently because of “mental issues”. Since the video first emerged on January 26, Chinese authorities have released few details on the woman’s fate.

Xuzhou authorities were quizzed on why more hadn’t been done to help the woman, who was previously hospitalized with mental illness

Elevated by Colin Farrell's aching performance and its meditative look at life, loss, and memory, Kogonada’s second film is another transcendent marvel of insight.