Together against Covid: Epidemiologists from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are taking a close look at Hong Kong’s pandemic management this weekend because the coronavirus is currently spreading rapidly in the special administrative region. Beijing fears the virus could sneak into the People’s Republic from Hong Kong. Guangdong is one of China’s most important […]
What looks like a colorful ball pool is currently hitting world trade at a sensitive point – the stuck freighter “Ever Given” continues to block the Suez Canal. Ships are now jammed on both sides, as can be followed live online. It is still unclear when the container ship will be able to continue its […]
Blue mountains: Photovoltaic panels cover the hills in Yongren in southwest China’s Yunnan province. The sunny Yongren county has encouraged companies to build photovoltaic power plants to create jobs for local villagers, state media reported.
The end of “panda diplomacy”? The Republican US Congresswoman Nancy Mace from South Carolina intends to ensure that panda offspring born in the USA should also remain in the USA. That’s because until now, cubs born abroad to giant pandas borrowed from China have to be handed back to the People’s Republic. “Pandas born in […]
To enjoy an all-you-can-eat sushi menu, dozens of people in Taiwan have had their names changed. The trigger was the advertising campaign of a sushi restaurant chain. It had announced that anyone with “Gui Yu”, the Chinese characters for salmon, in their name would get a meal at the restaurant, where they and five of […]
Normal spectators are not allowed at the Olympic Games in China due to the Covid pandemic. Selected, fully tested groups, as well as athletes who have traveled to the event, are supposed to spread the atmosphere, which has worked more or less well in previous events. These fans set a good example when they cheered […]
Away from the Olympics, a much more important festival is taking place in China this Tuesday: the Lantern Festival, or Yuanxiao Festival (元宵节, Yuánxiāojié). On this day, huge lantern shows are held, with zodiac signs being especially popular. And so this year, children in Wenzhou are making tiger lanterns. It is the closing of the […]
Nathan Chen won an Olympic medal in figure skating with the most challenging free skate. Chen, who competes for the US, was only briefly mentioned in Chinese state media. On social media, a hashtag about the 22-year-old’s victory did trend on the Weibo short message service. But many of the comments were negative or nationalistic […]
The mascot of the Winter Olympics has turned out to be a real bestseller in China. Shoppers are lining up for hours in Beijing despite freezing night temperatures to get their hands on a stuffed plush version of the chubby panda in a snowsuit named Bing Dwen Dwen. Those who don’t want to wait in […]
The Big Air Shougang Park is currently causing heated debate on social media channels like Twitter. The 64-meter-high and 164-meter-long ski jump was built for the Winter Olympics in the middle of a decommissioned steel mill in Beijing’s western Shijingshan district. Critics say that dirty cooling towers instead of snow-covered mountains are typically Chinese. In […]