https://www.scmp.com/rss/501112/feed Yang Yang was a podcast producer at the Post from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Post in 2019, Yang was a TV producer and editor for 2M Media Group in Washington, where she produced mini-documentaries and studio interviews. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This week on Inside China Tech, the Post’s Zen Soo speaks with GSMA's Head of Policy for Greater China Joe Guan to find out what's the big deal about 5G and why there is a big spectrum debate going on for the next-generation mobile network. We also look at why space agencies are concerned that 5G could mess with weather forecasts, and why 5G needs to use radio frequencies that no other mobile network has ever used before. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher. Produced by Yang... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3034962/inside-china-tech-leaders-tech-whats-spectrum-and-why-does-it-matter-5g?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3034962/inside-china-tech-leaders-tech-whats-spectrum-and-why-does-it-matter-5g?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Oct 2019 03:25:12 +0000 On this episode of Eat Drink Asia, we take a closer look at an iconic Vietnamese dish that is also one of the world’s most popular sandwiches – banh mi. While the French baguette stuffed with Vietnamese ingredients might look simple, there’s more to it than meets the eye. The dish was born in Vietnam’s colonial era, when locals weren’t allowed access to wheat flour, making it hard to imagine the sandwich would later become world famous. Since the 1970s, banh mi has been popular in faraway... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3034516/eat-drink-asia-banh-mi-where-vietnamese-tradition-and-french-colonialism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3034516/eat-drink-asia-banh-mi-where-vietnamese-tradition-and-french-colonialism?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:52:39 +0000 In this episode, Zen Soo and Yang Yang speak to Zhou Kun, co-founder and chief executive of genetic testing start-up 23Mofang, to find out more about the fast-growing DNA-testing market in China. Zhou claims that 23Mofang is currently the largest genetic testing company in the country, having gained 500,000 users since it began selling tests in 2015. To say that the global genetic testing market has grown rapidly over the past decade is an understatement. At the start of this year, an estimated... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3033211/inside-china-tech-what-can-chinas-dna-tests-really-tell-you?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3033211/inside-china-tech-what-can-chinas-dna-tests-really-tell-you?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:46:28 +0000 When Alex Zhou, chief executive of US-based e-commerce site Yamibuy, first moved in 2009 to study at a university in the Midwestern state of Kansas, he never imagined obtaining items like soy sauce or Chinese-style instant noodles would entail a two-hour drive on the Interstate-70 highway to Kansas City. He certainly wasn’t alone. Seeing friends who would drive hours every weekend to find specific Asian products, Zhou was inspired to start his own e-commerce site to sell hard-to-find Asian... https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3031248/inside-china-tech-leaders-tech-yamibuys-alex-zhou-building-us100?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3031248/inside-china-tech-leaders-tech-yamibuys-alex-zhou-building-us100?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Oct 2019 07:43:57 +0000 Born at the end of the Great Depression and made famous during World War II, more than eight billion cans of Spam have been eaten over the past 82 years. Spam is an iconic American brand, but many people outside of the US feel deeply connected to it. Today, Spam might have a negative image in its home country, but some chefs in the US are doing their best to overcome that stigma. How did Spam become popular during the war, and then manage to stick around for almost a century? Where did Spam get... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3030585/eat-drink-asia-all-about-spam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3030585/eat-drink-asia-all-about-spam?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Sep 2019 02:12:19 +0000 AutoX Inc. is a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. It’s mission is to democratise autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life. Dr Xiao Jianxiong is the founder and CEO of AutoX Inc and has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in computer vision, autonomous driving and robotics. Along with Pony.ai, AutoX recently received a robotaxi licence in California and it’s now in the process of applying for a permit to test drive without a safety... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3027433/inside-china-tech-leaders-technology-self-driving-cars-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3027433/inside-china-tech-leaders-technology-self-driving-cars-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:00:05 +0000 There are more than 700,000 active podcasts on the market today. And while they are becoming more popular, there is still one big problem... Most podcast platforms serve only one function, and that is to offer a way to listen to content. For Renee Wang, this provided a huge opportunity. She envisioned having one podcast platform for everything—listening to podcasts, having a community to discuss it with, having customised recommendations and in-audio search. On today’s Inside China Tech, Wang,... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3025432/inside-china-tech-how-create-successful-podcast-platform-lessons-learnt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3025432/inside-china-tech-how-create-successful-podcast-platform-lessons-learnt?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2019 01:49:10 +0000 A Hong Kong bakery started selling mooncakes in July that send political messages via the embossing on them. Referring to anti-government protests that have roiled the city since June, the slogans on the mooncakes include “no withdrawal, no dispersal” and “Hongkongers hang in together”. It’s not a modern invention to have mooncakes bear political messages. More than 600 years ago, revolutionary notes were stuffed inside the baked goods with intent to end the Yuan dynasty, when Han Chinese rebels... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3025033/eat-drink-asia-mooncakes-then-and-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3025033/eat-drink-asia-mooncakes-then-and-now?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Aug 2019 05:18:51 +0000 In 2018, the World Health Organisation classified “gaming disorder” as an official disease. That came 10 years after China officially recognised the broader concept of internet addiction. Since then, many so-called internet addiction treatment centres have since sprung up and controversies have ensued over how such diseases should be treated. In some places, treatments included not just counseling and medication but military-style discipline, hypnosis and even electroshock therapy. Stories have... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3023528/inside-china-tech-inside-chinese-internet-addiction-treatment-centre?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3023528/inside-china-tech-inside-chinese-internet-addiction-treatment-centre?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Aug 2019 04:25:16 +0000 A simple task as counting could become a complex issue in the case of estimating an accurate number of protesters. C&R’s crowd counting technology came into the public spotlight after the annual July 1 protest march in Hong Kong. Raymong Wong, the founder and managing director of C&R Wise AI, teamed up with Paul Yip, social sciences professor at Hong Kong University, and Edwin Chow, a geography researcher from Texas State University. Together they set up 7 cameras on the main streets at where... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3021463/inside-china-tech-how-ai-helps-count-accurate-crowd-numbers-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3021463/inside-china-tech-how-ai-helps-count-accurate-crowd-numbers-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Aug 2019 08:20:06 +0000 When the animated film Mulan was released in 1998, McDonald’s launched its SzeChuan Sauce, marketed as an accompaniment to their chicken McNuggets. Almost 20 years later, the long-forgotten sauce regained its mainstream popularity thanks to adult cartoon Rick and Morty. But there is no such thing as SzeChuan Sauce in Sichuan province, China. So where is this sauce from? And how does it differ from “authentic” Sichuanese food? With these questions in mind, Bernice Chan and Alkira Reinfrank... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3020212/sichuan-food-history-ming-mcdonalds-and-rick-and-morty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3020212/sichuan-food-history-ming-mcdonalds-and-rick-and-morty?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:19:58 +0000 Ever wanted to be a SWAT unit member to kill zombies or ward off giant monster bugs on top of a skyscraper? Now you can. Sandbox VR is a Hong Kong-based start-up that specialises in producing immersive, location-based virtual reality experiences. Steve Zhao, founder and chief executive of Sandbox VR, talks to Zen Soo on this episode of Inside China Tech to share his start-up journey and why he decided to bet his life savings on creating a real-life Holodeck (of Star Trek fame). The company now... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3019472/inside-china-tech-how-steve-zhao-ceo-sandbox-vr-bet-his-life-savings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3019472/inside-china-tech-how-steve-zhao-ceo-sandbox-vr-bet-his-life-savings?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jul 2019 04:40:34 +0000 In our next episode of Inside China Tech, technology reporter Zen Soo gets her mind blown by Sandbox VR games and learns about its start-up story. Steve Zhao, CEO of Sandbox VR, tells her how he risked his life savings for 10 years to pull his VR gaming company from the brink of shutting down, and created a real-life Holodeck. This episode will come out on July 22nd. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, iTunes, and Stitcher. https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3018632/inside-china-tech-we-thought-vr-was-just-hype-till-we-tried-sandbox-vr?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3018632/inside-china-tech-we-thought-vr-was-just-hype-till-we-tried-sandbox-vr?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Jul 2019 07:27:58 +0000 In the first episode of SCMP’s revamped Inside China Tech podcast, technology reporter Zen Soo and tech editor Chua Kong Ho delve into what makes Silicon Valley the global hub of innovation and whether China can ever catch up. Why hasn’t China produced a Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk? Do you need political freedom to be creative? How important is individualism when it comes to producing great entrepreneurs and tech visionaries? And will the current technology war with the US help accelerate China’s... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3017747/inside-china-tech-china-still-cant-compete-silicon-valley-can-it-ever?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3017747/inside-china-tech-china-still-cant-compete-silicon-valley-can-it-ever?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:50:54 +0000 Sushi is pretty much ubiquitous around the world, a food that looks deceptively simple with a mound of rice seasoned with a touch of wasabi and finished with a slice of raw fish on top. But the sushi we know today neither looks nor tastes like it did centuries ago. First of all, the rice was not supposed to be eaten. It was used to preserve the fish and was thrown away, leaving just the fish to be eaten. Second, it wasn’t even originally from Japan. Listen to the journey of sushi via iTunes,... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3016358/eat-drink-asia-why-people-didnt-use-eat-rice-sushi-and-how-it-became-what?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3016358/eat-drink-asia-why-people-didnt-use-eat-rice-sushi-and-how-it-became-what?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:41:33 +0000 The common stereotype of Silicon Valley is that innovation is often bottom-up, while in China it is state-led and therefore top-down. However, during our research and reporting for this podcast, we've found that Silicon Valley and China are more similar than we think. Listen to our latest trailer for the new episode, which comes out on July 8, as we find out if there is a set formula for success in innovation, and whether China can compete with the US in this arena. Listen and subscribe on... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3015133/inside-china-tech-does-top-down-state-led-innovation-work-trailer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3015133/inside-china-tech-does-top-down-state-led-innovation-work-trailer?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:03:49 +0000 More than 45 million kilograms (100 million pounds) of jalapeños are ground up each year to produce Huy Fong Foods’ legendary Sriracha hot sauce, lauded for its spicy kick, vinegary tang and garlicky aftertaste. Recognised the world over for the white rooster that stands proudly on its label, this ubiquitous sauce, which first tantalised taste buds in 1980, has developed somewhat of a cult foodie following. From fans getting tattoos of the bottle and personalising car number plates after it, to... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3011610/eat-drink-asia-sriracha-story-american-made-hot-sauce-thai-roots?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3011610/eat-drink-asia-sriracha-story-american-made-hot-sauce-thai-roots?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2019 03:06:21 +0000 For many diners, the first Thai dishes that spring to mind will be pad Thai, tom yum goong and green curry. They are on the menu of practically every Thai restaurant around the world. What they might not be aware of is that the delicious concoction, called “Thai stir-fry” in the local vernacular, is not historically a traditional dish. In fact, pad Thai’s roots are as political as they are culinary. It was imposed upon the populace more than 70 years ago as a cornerstone ingredient of a... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3007841/eat-drink-asia-nationalist-politics-behind-pad-thai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3007841/eat-drink-asia-nationalist-politics-behind-pad-thai?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:00:17 +0000 Have you ever wondered why dim sum is served in trolleys? Or what the most authentic experience of dim sum is, and how much work it takes to make shrimp dumplings? Borne of the necessity to feed busy workers at affordable prices in the early 1920s, dim sum has evolved into a culture of a much wider variety of foods and places to eat. Hong Kong now has has a huge and diverse number of dim sum restaurants, from century-old tea houses where you have to fight your way to the trolley to grab some... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3003756/eat-drink-asia-your-ultimate-guide-dim-sum?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/3003756/eat-drink-asia-your-ultimate-guide-dim-sum?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Mar 2019 04:00:10 +0000 Bubble tea, which has its roots in 1980s Taiwan, has become something of a global sensation. It has become an international smash hit, spreading through China, Asia, the USA and all across Instagram, with stores popping up and developing as fast as people can queue for them. So we ask ourselves- What's special about bubble tea? Who invented it? How did it become a global phenomenon? And why is it accepted by the mainstream so much faster than dishes such as General Tso's chicken or chop suey?... https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/2187288/eat-drink-asia-bubble-tea-success-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/podcasts/article/2187288/eat-drink-asia-bubble-tea-success-story?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:44:22 +0000