China has strongly condemned the bomb attack on its consulate in Mandalay. On Friday afternoon, the premises of the diplomatic mission in Myanmar’s second-largest city were partially damaged by an explosion. No casualties were reported. China urged the local authorities to make every effort to arrest the perpetrators.Myanmar has been in turmoil since February 2021, […]
The former Vice President of the China Development Bank (CDB), Wang Yongsheng, has been sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday. Wang was found guilty by the Intermediate People’s Court of Jilin Province of accepting the equivalent of around three million euros in bribes during his tenure at the development bank […]
October gives the grassland a pink glow – at least in Zishan Park in Handan in the south of Hebei province. The city’s tourism office has long recognized the appeal of the color. The paths through the grass are conveniently paved for pedestrians, and a pink Legoland-style train chugs through the landscape.
China’s central bank (PBoC) wants to support the weakening economy with another key interest rate cut. On Monday, it lowered the one-year key lending rate (LPR) by 25 basis points to 3.10 percent from 3.35 percent – this affects most new and existing loans in the People’s Republic. It also cut the five-year key interest […]
NATO is increasingly interested in export control in research and science. The concern of unintentionally granting geopolitical adversaries access to information on technological advances is not only a concern of nation states, but also the defense alliance.As a traditional NATO adversary, Russia is one of the main countries that should not get their hands on […]
News on the economy and its support have had a firm grip on China reporting in recent weeks: stimulus, consumption, securities. The reason for the many reports and analyses is always one figure: the growth rate of gross domestic product. On Friday, the National Bureau of Statistics will publish the latest data – for the […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized the EU Commission for imposing countervailing duties against the import of EVs from China. “Our goal must be to build the best cars that can compete on the international markets, especially when it comes to electromobility”, said Scholz on Wednesday in a government statement at the EU summit […]
The Chinese human rights lawyer Lu Siwei has been officially arrested. The Chinese authorities have accused the lawyer of illegally crossing the border into Laos. This was reported by the activist account Weiquanwang (维权网), which reports on the fates of arrested and convicted opponents of the regime.Lu was arrested in the Laotian capital of Vientiane […]
It can be done: China’s soccer fans finally had a reason to cheer again. In their fourth attempt at the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup in North America, the team led by Croatian head coach Branko Ivankovic managed their first win. The final score was 2:1 (2:0) against Indonesia, […]
Internet censorship has increased significantly in once-liberal Hong Kong. Facebook, for example, shows that the number of censored statements or posts has more than quintupled since the introduction of the National Security Law. This is based on official figures from Facebook’s parent company Meta, which published the statistical development a few days ago. The number […]