SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 4, 2020) Lightning flashes over the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) as it transits the South China Sea. Nimitz is the flagship of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (CSG). The Nimitz and Ronald Reagan CSGs are conducting dual carrier operations in the South China Sea as the Nimitz Carrier Strike Force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John Philip Wagner, Jr./Released)
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Amgen CEO: Greater U.S.-China collaboration will accelerate fight against cancer
Last month, Amgen CEO Bob Bradway helped kick off a high-level roundtable discussion focused on accelerating cancer research through greater collaboration between the U.S. and China. Held November 18 as part of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, the Moonshot Roundtable discussion was co-facilitated by the Honorable Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Prime Minister of Australia, and Dr. Bob Li, Physician Ambassador to China and Asia-Pacific at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The session brought together senior leaders from industry, academia and government.
Detergent Turns Former Teacher Into One of China’s Richest Women
Bloomberg 12/16/2020
(Bloomberg)
Pan Dong used to be a teacher at a university in Guangzhou, China. Fast forward two decades, she’s now one of the nation’s richest women.
The 55-year-old is Blue Moon Group Holdings Ltd.’s chairman and wife of its founder, Luo Qiuping. The soap maker, which in recent years has raced past foreign brands including Unilever Plc and Procter & Gamble Co. to become China’s top liquid-laundry detergent provider, raised $1.3 billion in Hong Kong’s biggest consumer initial public offering of the year. It priced at the top end of its marketed range last week.
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