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Mixue Ice Cream & Tea’s Low‑Cost, Vertically Integrated Model Fuels a Global Beverage Boom

Mixue Ice Cream & Tea – the brand known in Chinese as 蜜雪冰城 – has become a quiet but powerful force reshaping the ready‑made beverage market across China and into Southeast Asia. What began as a modest ice‑cream and tea shop in the early 2000s has, in less than two decades, grown into a global chain of more than 36,000 outlets, a footprint that now stretches from the bustling streets of Chengdu to the terminals of Hanoi’s airports. Its meteoric rise is owed to a blend of aggressive expansion, a “high‑quality, low‑price” philosophy and a supply‑chain model that rivals the efficiency of a tech start‑up.

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K‑Pop Star Jang Won‑young Sparks Fan Frenzy and Fashion Buzz in Shanghai

Jang Won‑young – known in Mandarin as Zhang Yuanying – has become a talking point in Shanghai over the past few months, not simply because of her status as a global K‑pop idol, but because of a string of high‑profile public appearances that have drawn throngs of fans and sparked a lively online debate.

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Director Wong Jing Says Personality Clash, Not Scandal, Drove Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse’s Divorce

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Jing stunned netizens this week when, during a televised interview, he offered a candid assessment of why his former collaborators Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse ended their marriage. The director, who worked with the pair on the 2018 drama “Wujia Zhishang,” said the divorce was not the result of external meddling or financial strain – as tabloids have long suggested – but rather an inexorable clash of personalities that became evident on set.