Yesterday, Hong Kong police arrested five people on sedition charges. They are accused of inciting hatred against the city’s government by publishing certain children’s books, news agency Reuters reported. According to the report, police stated that in one of the books, wolves attacked a village while the sheep living there defended themselves. This story was […]
Dominic Porter will become China Director of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in September, according to a media report. He succeeds Jonathan Hatwell. Porter is currently head of the economic and global affairs department at EEAS.
The central Chinese province of Henan is threatened by continued extreme rainfall. Yesterday, the provincial weather bureau issued a severe weather warning of the highest level for the megacities of Xinxiang, Anyang, Hebi and Jiaozuo in northern Henan. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated. Anyang has seen precipitation over 600 millimeters since Monday. In […]
Today, at 12:00 PM CEST, the Olympic Games will start in Tokyo. Athletes are already preparing in their respective disciplines, like athlete Zeng Wenhui of the Chinese skateboarding team.
On Tuesday, China’s State Council approved measures to increase the birth rate. These measures include an amendment to individual income tax law. In the future, parents will be able to deduct childcare expenses for children under the age of three from their taxes, according to the business portal Caixin. Accordingly, the central government wants to […]
Fei Lu remembers it well: he went off to college in the Chinese city of Taizhou and the German government revised its Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) in 2004. Around the same time Chinese photovoltaic pioneers were returning from abroad and were setting up their first companies in China. “The press here at the time […]
Shocking images of the flood disaster in the regions of western and southern Germany continue to dominate headlines. Now disturbing images are reaching us from Chinese regions: people trapped in subway trains in Zhengzhou, surrounded by masses of water. Cars washed away, floating in brown torrents. In Inner Mongolia and Henan, thousands of people have […]
Terrifying images surfaced on social media yesterday out of Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan: people standing in a flooded subway line, anxiously waiting for rescue. Others are stuck in their cars, masses of water around them. In total, more than 140,000 people have been affected by extreme rainfall in Henan. More than 10,000 people had […]
The former head of China investment banking at major Swiss bank Credit Suisse, Tang Zhenyi, has been appointed vice-chairman of Chinese AI startup, SenseTime. The 47-year-old looks back on ten years at the Chinese Ministry of Finance and a four-year stint at the World Bank.