China and Hong Kong met yesterday in the East Asian Men’s Football Championship. China won the match 1-0, Hong Kong had moved up for North Korea in the final round, which is contested by four teams. Japan won the tournament after defeating South Korea 3-0.
Lucky are those who have access to a beach in the current heat wave – like here in the bay of the small village of Shek O in the rocky southeast of Hong Kong Island. The bay is one of the most beautiful in the Special Administrative Region, framed by cliffs and overlooking the open […]
Critical artist Badiucao is currently exhibiting his works in Prague. They include performances, graphics, paintings, videos and multimedia installations. Topics include human rights and censorship in China, the repression of protests in Hong Kong and the situation of the Uyghurs, but also the situation in Myanmar. Badiucao lives in Australia.
Birthday surprise for Ding Ding in Moscow: The female giant panda was allowed to feast on bamboo cake decorated with fruit on Sunday, just like her male companion Ru Yi. While Ding Ding turned five years old on Saturday, Ru Yi celebrated his sixth birthday a day later. The two animals were loaned from China […]
Once upon a time… China’s Internet users reacted creatively to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit by merging an old yearbook photo of the US politician with a military photo of Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the Global Times. Hu, who commented on Twitter in late July that China had the right to shoot down Pelosi’s plane […]
View of the maneuver: This Taiwanese man watches China’s fleet at work. From the coast near Taipei, the warships are barely visible on the horizon. What the dogs think about the political excitement surrounding Pelosi is not known.
The “Order of Propitious Clouds with Special Grand Cordon” is awarded by Taiwan to people who have rendered outstanding services to the country. This order has only been awarded 21 times since 1941. Nancy Pelosi has now been awarded this great honor. She received the highest civilian honor in the country during her sensational visit […]
No end to the heat wave in sight: China’s national weather service predicts temperatures of more than 40 degrees for some parts of the country in the coming days. Despite the sweltering heat – as here in Fuyang in the central Chinese city of Anhui – it seems to be more important to some motorists […]
At least border traffic still flows here: Goods and passengers are transported on wooden rafts on the Quay Sơn River between Vietnam and China. The river runs between the Vietnamese province of Cao Bang and the Chinese province of Guangxi, very close to the Ban Gioc Detian Waterfalls, the world’s fourth largest transnational waterfalls after […]
Illuminated Lego bricks? Our dessert today shows a high-rise apartment in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay district.