https://www.scmp.com/rss/503104/feed Stephany Zoo is the founder of the China Africa Tech Initiative, and head of marketing at AZA, which helps businesses move money in and out of Africa. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Covid-19 has brought out the good, the bad, and the ugly in the China-Africa relationship, including rampant racism in Guangzhou against Africans falsely accused of being infected and subsequent diplomatic and civil society escalations. However, African healthtech has great potential to grow and deepen connections in the face of the pandemic. In comparison to a number of other more capital hungry sectors such as fintech, healthtech raised less than 10 per cent of the total amount of venture... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3086638/covid-19-opens-door-deeper-collaboration-china-africa-healthtech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3086638/covid-19-opens-door-deeper-collaboration-china-africa-healthtech?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 May 2020 21:00:10 +0000 Fake baby milk formula, fish tainted with diesel and tofu made with sewage water – given the rampant product safety scandals in China that have swept headlines, it is no wonder Chinese consumers often distrust food and other consumables. This is made worse by the perception that Chinese consumer protection law has been slow to protect consumers’ rights. Changes to regulations in 2014 were the first major overhaul to the country’s consumer protection law in about two decades, requiring retailers... https://www.scmp.com/tech/blockchain/article/3052287/how-blockchain-can-protect-consumers-tainted-food-knock-offs-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/blockchain/article/3052287/how-blockchain-can-protect-consumers-tainted-food-knock-offs-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Feb 2020 22:00:10 +0000 2019 has been a landmark year for fundraising by African start-ups and out of the US$441.4 million raised by 45 start-ups on the continent by August this year, more than a quarter came from Chinese investors. It is not surprising that Chinese investors have started where they are most familiar, and the biggest funding rounds have covered companies that were founded by Chinese people or which have strong China connections. Opay, whose parent company is Opera, led by Chinese internet billionaire... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3041975/2019-has-been-big-year-chinese-vcs-africa-they-branch-out-tech-logistics-and-e?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3041975/2019-has-been-big-year-chinese-vcs-africa-they-branch-out-tech-logistics-and-e?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:00:14 +0000