The online video platform YouTube has shut down the channel of the election campaign of Hong Kong’s presumably future chief executive John Lee. As the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday, the platform, which belongs to the US group Google, removed all content from the “Johnlee2022” channel. Google had issued a statement that the […]
These are turbulent times, and in Europe, almost everything revolves around the war in Ukraine. Concerns about Western sanctions have apparently also convinced China to import slightly less oil and coal from Russia. Meanwhile, the Corona situation in the People’s Republic remains tense – even if Shanghai again registered fewer than 20,000 new infections on […]
Chinese battery giant CATL has launched a battery replacement service called Evogo in its home province of Fujian. Earlier this week, the company announced it launched four fast battery exchange stations in the island city of Xiamen. The number is expected to rise to 30 by the end of this year, CATL announced on Wednesday. […]
First the good news: In China, newly built wind and solar plants can mostly compete with the prices for coal-fired power – even smaller, decentralized solar roofs have become price-competitive. This is primarily due to the increased price of coal. And secondly, because it becomes increasingly affordable to start using renewable energies.But there’s a catch: […]
The so-called “closed-loop” has become the saving grace for many companies in China. Faced with the threat of lockdowns across the country, they are setting up a closed-loop in which employees work, live, and sleep on specially purchased beds in the office for several days isolated from the rest of society. This is intended to […]
There is no end in sight to the tough Covid measures in Shanghai. On Saturday, authorities indicated that they would partially reopen the first city districts. On one condition: Not a single resident was allowed to be tested Covid for corona in the past 14 days. But for the time being, nothing came of it. […]
Companies across China are increasingly suffering from Omicron outbreaks in the country. Strict zero covid measures disrupt supply chains and production. Employees or logistics are practically overnight barred from entering factory premises. Or they are unexpectedly no longer allowed to cross city or district borders. And in Shanghai, there is the omnipresent fear of a […]
The Solomon Islands only have a population of around 700,000 and are located far out in the Pacific, just under 2,000 kilometers northeast of Australia. As remote as it may sound, the island nation has allowed itself to be drawn into the middle of an international conflict. It has signed a security framework agreement with […]
China’s Shenzhen-based electric car and battery company BYD has significantly increased its sales in 2021. The company said at its annual press conference on Wednesday that sales increased by 38 percent – from 153 billion yuan (21.6 billion euros) in 2020 to 211 billion yuan (29.9 billion euros). BYD’s car sales increased 73.3 percent to […]
The tea harvest has begun in southern China – even in cold, humid weather. The photo shows two tea farmers in Shanglin in the province of Guangxi. The region belongs to the Huanan (华南) tea region, as do Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan. There, the harvest season always starts first in the country due to the […]