Raymond Wong heads the new HKEx office in London. From there, Wong and his team are to make the Hong Kong location palatable to British investors for the parent company of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the London Metal Exchange. Wong reports to HKEx Co-Head of Sales and Marketing Kevin Rideout.Is something changing in […]
In her daily routine, Heike Raab engages in discussions with members of the cabinets of EU commissioners, serves as the representative of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Conference of European Affairs Ministers and exchanges ideas with mayors, district administrators and state politicians from across the EU in the European Committee of the Regions. All of this has […]
Sabine Stricker-Kellerer has been appointed new German Co-Chair of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum. Stricker-Kellerer succeeds Annette Schavan as co-chair, who held the post between 2018 and 2022. This was announced by the German Foreign Office. The German-Chinese Dialogue Forum (DCDF) was established in 2005. The forum advises the development of Sino-German cooperation in all fields. […]
The State Council has announced new appointments to a number of positions in the state apparatus:Li Yang is the new vice minister of transportation. Wang Hongzhi was appointed vice chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.Ding Chibiao was named vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, replacing Zhang […]
“You just want to make me cry,” said Tony Leung at the 80th Venice International Film Festival when director Ang Lee presented him with a Golden Lion for his lifetime achievement. As he held the trophy in his arms, he couldn’t hold back his tears. At 61, Leung is the youngest filmmaker ever to receive […]
Richard Tsoi is the new vice director of the non-governmental organization China Labor Bulletin. The NGO campaigns for the rights of workers in the People’s Republic. It is based in Hong Kong and was founded there in 1994 by labor activist Han Dongfang. Tsoi previously worked as a spokesman for the Hong Kong Coalition to […]
Christoph Nedopil Wang is the new director of the Asia Institute at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He replaces interim director Ian Hall, who remains professor of international relations at the institute. Nedopil Wang was previously director of the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai.Timothy Xu has been appointed chair and […]
Early in the summer, according to media reports, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov hinted during many private conversations that the commitment in principle to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv could be his last major project in office. Now, on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy actually proposed a change at the head of the Ministry of […]
“China, we have nothing to do with that,” was her first reaction when her husband confronted her with vacancies in the faraway country. And yet, soon after, the two set off for the Far East. Martina Boelck was employed as a lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Beijing between 2003 and 2008 through the German […]
Walter Sun replaces Feiyu Xu at software maker SAP as global head of AI. Sun comes from Microsoft, where he reached prominence as head of the corresponding development division. He worked there for 18 years and, for example, was responsible for integrating AI functions into the Bing search engine. Sun holds a PhD in electrical […]