Shen Hongbing and Guo Yanhong were appointed deputy heads of the National Health Commission by the State Council on Friday. Shen will also succeed Wang Hesheng as head of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
Having already imposed tariffs on electric cars and batteries from China, the US Department of Commerce has now also set its sights on the software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles. The government fears that Chinese cars could pass on sensitive data to China.The ban could effectively exclude Chinese car brands from the American […]
A Hong Kong court has sentenced two former editors of the now-defunct pro-democracy news portal “Stand News” to prison. Chung Pui-kuen (55) received a sentence of 21 months. His colleague Lam Shiu-tung (36) also received a prison sentence of several months, but was released as the judge reduced the sentence due to illness and because […]
According to insider reports, the Chinese government plans to finance its planned economic stimulus measures by issuing massive sovereign bonds. Two people familiar with the plans told the Reuters news agency on Thursday that special securities worth around two trillion yuan (around 256 billion euros) are to be placed for this purpose. As part of […]
Japan has sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait for the first time. The destroyer “Sazanami” crossed the sea route between the island of Taiwan and the Chinese mainland on Wednesday, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo. Last week, the Chinese aircraft carrier “Liaoning” sailed through the waters between two Japanese islands near Taiwan […]
The two pandas, An An and Ke Ke, were shipped to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with a farewell ceremony in Sichuan. Raised at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Dujiangyan in 2019, the pair are an unusual gift to Hong Kong – the animals are normally only loaned. […]
Yu Hanbang has been appointed General Manager for Maserati China with immediate effect. In his new role, Yu’s main task will be to drive the success of the Trident brand in the Chinese market. Before his post at the Italian luxury car brand, Yu held important executive positions at several renowned automotive companies, including Genesis […]
Beijing calls them its Luban workshops 鲁班工坊, the new overseas vocational schools where the People’s Republic has so far mainly educated and trained Africans in high-tech industrial fields. Foreign observers mockingly refer to them as “Confucius Institutes 2.0.” Others see Beijing’s sudden emergence as an active provider in the international education market as a kind […]
The Italian antitrust authority has launched an investigation into the company Infinite Styles Services CO. Limited, which operates the Shein website and app. The background to this is allegedly misleading statements about environmental protection. The Chinese fast fashion provider’s website attempts to “convey an image of the commercial sustainability of its garments through general, vague, […]
Russia maintains a weapons program in China for the development and production of long-range attack drones. This is according to a report by Reuters, which is based on documents and two sources from a European secret service. The weapons are to be used primarily in the war of aggression against Ukraine.The company IEMZ Kupol, a […]