Shein has recruited former EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger to strengthen its lobbying work in Europe. This was reported by “Bloomberg,” citing a representative of the Chinese fast fashion giant. Shein is currently preparing its IPO in London and therefore needs regulatory aid in the EU. Oettinger is to help as an advisor. The 70-year-old CDU […]
Aditi Rasquinha is the new CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Greater China. Rasquinha started her career at DHL in 2005 as a Business Analyst in the Global Customer Solutions team in Singapore. Since then, she gained experience at Kuehne + Nagel as Head of Ocean Freight Logistics in Thailand and the Netherlands. From 2021 she […]
The moon is firmly in China’s grip. In the past few years, China has successfully mastered four landings on the Earth’s satellite. The United States actually wanted to do the same now – but they failed even before liftoff, as Joern Petring reports.Meanwhile, Beijing is not quite as successful on planet Earth: The project volume […]
British Airways will suspend its route from London to Beijing for the time being. The route will be paused from October 26, the British airline informed the industry platform Head for Points on Thursday. The change will be implemented at the end of the summer flight schedule. The airline said all affected passengers will be […]
The United States overtook China as Germany’s biggest trading partner in the first half of 2024. German goods trade with the USA totaled around 127 billion euros from January to June, while exports and imports with the People’s Republic came to just under 122 billion euros. This is according to calculations by the news agency […]
Lei Feng has been Head of CIB China Market at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) since July. Lei has 20 years of experience in corporate and investment banking and has led and participated in numerous Sino-European syndicated, project and M&A financings. Until July, he was a corporate banking expert at China Merchants Bank, also in […]
According to ARD doping expert Hajo Seppelt, geopolitical and strategic considerations are increasingly influencing the actions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) concerning doping allegations: “China is now a global player in international sports,” Seppelt says in the Table.Today podcast. Major sponsors are also increasingly coming from the Far […]
The Yang Xiao Chu 杨小厨 restaurant in Paris’s 15th arrondissement has become a popular meeting spot for Chinese Olympic athletes. Not far from the table tennis venues, owner Tang Zhongqiu serves spicy soups and hotpot that are eagerly enjoyed by table tennis stars such as Ding Ning and Liu Guozheng. In recent weeks, queues have […]
Elisa Hoerhager has headed the BDI representation in Beijing as Chief Representative since the beginning of August. She previously worked as a diplomat at the Federal Foreign Office.Norbert Riedel is to become the new German Consul General in Shanghai. He will take up his post in the fall. Riedel is currently the German ambassador in […]