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An increasing number of shoppers in China are embracing second-hand goods, driven by platforms such as Alibaba’s Xianyu and Tencent-backed Zhuan Zhuan. Robynne Tindall finds out more Turn on the TV in the UK recently, and you will struggle to miss the adverts for resale platforms like Vinted and eBay. Millions of people have started buying and selling second-hand apparel, homeware and more amid growing environmental concerns and a severe …

The unlikely star of Team GB’s Winter Olympic showing so far isn’t an athlete — it’s the outfits from the opening ceremony, which attracted thousands of positive comments from Weibo and WeChat users in China, writes Robynne Tindall With the amount of media attention directed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, it has been hard to predict what the top news headlines would be in advance. However, perhaps no …