Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Suppliers of carpets from China’s northern Xinjiang region received a shock last month when their wares were ...

Now that China is open, the Cannes red carpet business swung into action with a multitude of Chinese stars, influencers and total unknowns flooding the festival’s famed promenade. Those who aren’t ...

But it is far from easy to find a representative who is willing to talk to the press. Instead, requests for interviews can be met with a brusque turning away to suddenly pay attention to just about ...

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At one of Shanghai’s luxurious interior decoration exhibitions last year, Cai Shengwei learned — to his undisguised indignance — that a handmade silk rug made in Kashmir sold for more than 100,000 ...

Rug-gedly handsome: Punters check the weaves. Inset: Qianmen Carpet Company. Photos: Courtesy of Henan Yilong Carpet Company and Wang Zi I wasn't surprised when an Afghan friend of mine last week set ...

A carpet that once graced China’s imperial palace during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) was sold in early May for US$324,500 at a Skinner auction in Boston in the eastern US. The carpet features a large ...

In a carpet mill in Weihai, Shandong province, looms and other machines are working long hours to fill a lengthy list of orders, rolling out 4-meter-wide Axminster carpet in a variety of colors and ...

Kathmandu, June 22 -- Nepal's exports to China have sharply declined despite steady growth in shipments to India. This has ...