At Pizza Hut Taiwan, ads featuring disgusting pizzas have become a tradition. After the franchise company went viral last year on Halloween thanks to a pizza with ghost-shaped dumplings and chicken feet, it has now stepped up its game – with this turtle pizza.The main ingredients of this abomination based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
Relations between Australia and China are improving. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasized this during a visit to Australia on Wednesday in talks with his counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra. According to a statement issued afterward, the central theme of the discussion was the stability of the relationship between the two countries.The two economies are […]
Two men are accused of stealing trade secrets from the electric car manufacturer Tesla and selling them to undercover US investigators through a Chinese company. The two were arrested on Tuesday in New York, as announced by the US Attorney’s Office on the same day. One of the accused is a 58-year-old Canadian citizen living […]
In times of economic uncertainty and a lack of alternatives, more and more Chinese are investing in gold. According to the China Gold Association, retail sales of gold products rose by almost nine percent year-on-year to 1,090 tons in 2023. Particularly popular are traditional lucky charms cast in gold, such as this dragon from a […]
What do Chinese Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan and Nongfu Spring iced tea have in common? Both were recently accused on China’s social media channels of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. Mo allegedly spread “pro-Western” clichés about China in his novels. The iced tea, on the other hand, is accused of being “pro-Japanese” […]
On Friday, the Italian cruise ship MSC Bellissima finally returned to Shanghai with passengers after a four-year absence. Due to China’s COVID-19 restrictions, the sector was forced to take a longer hiatus than in Europe or the USA.Cruise tourism is considered a growth market in China, but one that is difficult to crack. From April […]
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill that would force the Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell its video app TikTok. A large majority of 352 representatives voted in favor, with only 65 against. This marks a significant step toward the forced sale. The next step is for the Senate to consider the […]
The donkey has become a kind of elephant in the room for Sino-African relations. These farm animals are mass slaughtered in Africa and then processed into ejiao 阿胶 in China, a popular universal remedy in Chinese medicine (TCM) believed to be effective against a variety of ailments such as respiratory and circulatory diseases, as well […]
China wants to respond to future infectious disease outbreaks with a higher number of special teams. On Monday, the country’s top health authority announced that the number of such teams is to be increased by five to 25. The country will also improve early warning and relevant regulatory or legal systems, according to Wang Hesheng, […]
China’s central government has urged its banks to support the ailing real estate company Vanke. As Reuters reported on Monday, China has asked lending institutions to improve financing options for the state-backed company. Two sources told Reuters that creditors are being asked to consider extending the maturity of private debt.The State Council – China’s cabinet […]