On Thursday, Robert Tsao stepped into the flashbulbs of photojournalists, wearing a bulletproof vest. At his press conference in downtown Taipei, the already graying businessman had an urgent message ready for his compatriots: “China is anxious to attack Taiwan,” said the 75-year-old, who at one point was one of the island’s richest residents with a […]
Haixin Ying joined the consulting firm PKF Fasselt as a tax consultant on September 1. He is to strengthen PKF’s Duisburg Inner Harbor China Desk team, which serves 70 Chinese companies in Germany. Ying was previously Head of Tax at Huawei Germany. He has more than ten years of professional experience and his areas of […]
Helen-Ann Smith is to become Sky News’ Asia correspondent. The business correspondent with a special interest in climate change will be based in Beijing.Is something changing in your organization? Why not let us know at heads@table.media!
Volker Wissing, Germany’s Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, is certainly no digital native. But as a state minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, the now 52-year-old has already had many brushes with digital issues in business, transport, agriculture and viticulture – from broadband expansion and new data usage options in traffic to data models in the […]
In China, sympathy for Mikhail Gorbachev’s death is extremely reserved. Even more: The death of the 93-year-old is commented on with a good portion of malice and malicious joy. Commentator Wuwei Li writes to his almost 900,000 followers on Weibo that Gorbachev only deserves “contempt”: “He was a lame, incompetent, cowardly politician” who serves as […]
Jorge Toledo Albiñana, the new EU Ambassador to China, takes office today, Thursday. He takes over from Nicolas Chapuis. The post of the Chinese ambassador, in turn, to the EU remains vacant. The position has been vacant since December. A replacement is not expected until after the party congress in October.Li Fanrong is the new […]
Pierre Ganninger de Botmiliau has taken over the position of Project Manager Business Development China at Mercedes-Benz Vans. De Botmiliau has been working for Daimler for five years. His current place of employment is Stuttgart.Saad Azza has been Senior Business Development Manager & Team Lead at Porsche Taiwan since July. In Taipei, his responsibilities include […]
Eduardo Thamm has taken on the position of Senior Manager R&D Driving Dynamics at BMW China. The manager with China experience has been working for BMW in product development since 2010. His specialty is coordinating multicultural, cross-functional teams. For his new post, Thamm moved from Shenyang to Beijing. Björn Giner has assumed the position of […]
Ingrid d’Hooghe will take over as director of the China Centre of Clingendael Institute in The Hague, Netherlands, on September 1. At the internationally renowned research institute and training center for diplomatic careers, she succeeds Frans-Paul van der Putten, who will remain with the institution as senior associate researcher. D’Hooghe’s mandate runs until the end […]
Pierre Ganninger de Botmiliau has taken over the position of Project Manager Business Development China at Mercedes-Benz Vans. De Botmiliau has been working for Daimler for five years. His current place of employment is Stuttgart. Saad Azza has been Senior Business Development Manager & Team Lead at Porsche Taiwan since July. In Taipei, his responsibilities […]