Government officials in northeast China have taken over the management of one of China’s largest private oil refineries in connection with tax investigations. A team led by officials from the city of Panjin in Liaoning has been appointed to manage the financially troubled Liaoning Bora Enterprise Group. The team is trying to restructure Bora to […]
The recent Covid outbreak in China appears to be gradually back under control due to strict restrictive measures. The National Health Commission still reported 51 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, including 13 local and 38 imported infections. Symptomless cases also have decreased, with 17 imported and three local cases. These are not classified as […]
Eva Lüdi Kong spent 17 years on the German translation of “Journey to the West”, one of four great classics of Chinese literature. The work was as groundbreaking for East Asian culture as Dante’s “Divine Comedy” once was for Europe. This was probably why no one before Lüdi Kong had dared to fully translate the […]
Once again, a Canadian citizen has been given a harsh sentence in China. Yesterday, a court in Dandong, located on the border to North Korea, sentenced Michael Spavor, a businessman who has been held in custody since 2018, to 11 years in prison on charges of espionage. Just this Tuesday, the Shenyang appeals court upheld […]
Against a backdrop of diplomatic tensions between China and Canada, several sentences are being handed down these days to Canadians imprisoned in the People’s Republic. The court of appeal in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning announced on Tuesday that the death sentence for Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg made in January 2019 would be […]
Relations between Lithuania and China continue to deteriorate. Beijing has now recalled its ambassador Shen Zhifei from the Baltic state. Also, according to a report by South China Morning Post, China asked the government in Vilnius on Tuesday to withdraw its ambassador Diana Mickeviciene from Beijing as well. The reason: Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open […]
China’s car market continues to weaken. In July, passenger car sales continued to perform below the previous year’s level. With a minus of 6.4 percent, the decline was even stronger than in June, according to the Passenger Car Association (PCA) on Tuesday. Even when including commercial vehicles such as minivans, the overall market was on […]
After the Olympics is before the Olympics. Now that the Olympic flame has been extinguished in Tokyo, it is only about six months until it is due to be reignited at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The Beijing Games are not expected to be any more “normal” than the one in Tokyo. It is […]
German chemical company BASF and its joint venture partner Sinopec are expanding their jointly operated Verbund sites in Nanjing. Among other things, the production capacities of several plants for downstream chemicals are to be increased, as both companies announced on Thursday. Both companies also plan a new production plant for tert-butyl acrylate to meet the […]
In the wake of the recent Corona outbreak, China continues to pursue a zero-covid strategy. Now Wuhan intends to have the entire population tested against the backdrop of a smaller infection cluster. As the state-run “People’s Newspaper” reported on Tuesday, this was decided by the local government. This was preceded by the first infections in […]