Ms. Leung, you are one of the few journalists in Hong Kong that still gives pro-democracy angles a voice. How did you feel about the general election last Sunday? That was the first election that I didn’t take part in, nor as a journalist or with my vote. I am reluctant to recognize this type of […]
In China, people like to celebrate holidays “renao 热闹” – “warm and loud”. With a little luck, however, the Christmas season also offers a few quiet hours there, which can be spent with a good book, for example. Ning Wang has taken a look at the most important and exciting new publications on and from […]
Uzra Zeya will be the new US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues. Appointed by US President Joe Biden, the diplomat with Indian roots has served the US government for 27 years. In her new post, Zeya aims to advocate for the “human rights and fundamental freedoms” of Tibetans and promote a “substantive dialogue” between the […]
The number of apps in Chinese app stores has declined by 38.5 percent in the last three years. This is shown by figures from the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). According to the figures, around 4.52 million apps were still available for download at the end of 2018. By October 2021, the […]
“I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!”, Meng Lan seems to be saying to the camera. The giant panda had escaped from his enclosure at Beijing Zoo on December 15 and was placed behind an extra-high security fence ever since. It was already the second escape attempt of the six-year-old animal. Zookeepers were able to […]
When Françoise Hauser had just earned her Master’s degree in Sinology in the mid-1990s, a visit to the employment office recommended she choose a different career path. “Back then, there wasn’t much anyone could do with Chinese,” says the writer, who was born in Mainz in 1967. After a brief but profound interlude at a […]
German machinery manufacturers are bracing themselves for more difficult times in business in China. “We expect the business environment in China to become more challenging for a number of companies,” Karl Haeusgen, President of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA), told Reuters on Tuesday. In particular, the traditional export business from Germany to China will lose […]
The Chinese internet platform Weibo has been fined three million yuan (about €420,000) by China’s internet regulator. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said Weibo had violated a cybersecurity law on the protection of minors as well as other laws but did not give further details. The company, which operates a platform similar to Twitter, […]
Chen Man never thought that she would be branded a “traitor to China” over a photo. After the 41-year-old star photographer from Beijing photographed an Asian model for a Dior handbag advertisement, she was suddenly pilloried on the Internet in mid-November: Chen’s pictures were based on Western stereotypes of Chinese women, wrote outraged users on […]
Heavy seas: A Chinese container ship has run ashore on the west coast of the Russian island of Sakhalin. On Monday afternoon, a storm had pushed the aged barge Xing Yuan against the shore of the city of Cholmsk. The 12-member crew was evacuated by the Russian coast guard. The ship was traveling without cargo […]