China’s new food import regulations will come into force as planned on January 1st despite criticism from Washington and Brussels. Imports of foodstuffs into the People’s Republic will have to comply with new registration, inspection, and labeling requirements from 2022, according to China’s customs authorities. The announced measures cover a wide range of products from […]
Advent celestial spectacle: Tonight, one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year reached its peak – the Geminids. Over the mountain massif Yulong Xueshan not far from the city of Lijiang in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, the shooting stars lit up the night sky. Along with the summer Perseids, the Geminids […]
Mark S. Bradford is to manage the new Mandarin Oriental in Shenzhen. The luxury hotel is scheduled to open in the tech metropolis in early 2022, according to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.Anita Ho is to become the new Director of Major Projects in Greater China for Australian international engineering, design and advisory company Aurecon. […]
More than 250 non-governmental organizations have called on European Union leaders to launch a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing ahead of their summit meeting on Thursday. In an open letter, the organizations call on EU member states to send a clear message to the Chinese government for its severe and systematic […]
Artificial snow for the kicker: Preparations for the Winter Olympics have begun at the Shougang Big Air sports venue in Shijingshan. The big air freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions of the 2022 Winter Games will take place there from February. The Big Air ski jump is located on the site of a former steel mill […]
Vanessa Chang is the new director of the Shanghai studio of BMW Group Designworks. Chang has been working for the design consultancy for the past ten years, which has been part of BMW since 1995. In addition to BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce, Designworks also advises clients from other sectors such as Starlux Airlines, Niu Technologies, […]
Just days after breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan, Nicaragua has received 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. The Nicaraguan people appreciate “this gesture of solidarity, cooperation, friendship, and brotherhood,” government adviser and presidential son Laureano Ortega Murillo wrote on Twitter. A photo released for the occasion showed an Air China plane on a runway with […]
The new federal government places a stronger emphasis on the protection of human rights and liberal values than its predecessor. The old government, however, left it with an advantage here: Germany’sSupply Chain Act. It is supposed to oblige companies to pay attention to the circumstances under which their goods are produced. What sounds noble in […]
Nicaragua has severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and declared its support for Beijing’s “One-China policy”. The Central American nation’s foreign minister, Denis Moncada, declared in a televised address that the People’s Republic of China was the “only legitimate government” representing “all of China.” Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed this on Twitter. “I would like to […]
The trade dispute between Lithuania and China continues to escalate. The Baltic EU state remained locked in the customs system on Thursday, as the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists confirmed. Shiploads are not being unloaded or processed by customs authorities. According to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, Beijing has now dragged other EU states into the dispute: […]