As a TV programme with an audience of over 1.2 billion, China’s Spring Festival Gala is an important stage for international luxury brands fighting for exposure. This year, many homegrown designers … ( read original…
Monthly Archives For February 2021
Information Office of Beijing Municipal Government Releases “I am in Beijing for Spring Festival” Video Series
The Chinese New Year 2021 is special due to the COVID-19 pandemic which is not over yet. A notice was issued a few weeks ago encouraging … ( read original story …)
China Hints at a Shift on Climate
A rare public rebuke of the energy agency signals to some that environmental regulators have been empowered to counter the coal industry. ( read original story …)
Reunions postponed: China migrant workers caught on wrong side of COVID-19
Wang Yunxia, 30, spent her adult life largely on a factory floor in southern Guangdong, far away from her daughter in central China, and even farther away from her husband in Beijing, where he was…
Two Arrests, Two Outcomes Tell a Tale of Xi Jinping’s China
A rural businessman, Sun Dawu, angered Beijing twice. His fate the second time around could augur the future of the world’s other superpower. ( read original story …)
‘I’ve let them down’: Beijing’s migrant workers miss family reunions on Lunar New Year
Wang Yunxia, 30, spent her adult life largely on a factory floor in southern Guangdong, far away from her daughter in central China, and even farther away from her husband in Beijing, where he was…
New Zealand says it knew all along that Chinese police run visa centre in Beijing
The government of New Zealand says it has known from the beginning that a police-owned company was behind a visa-processing centre in Beijing, an arrangement defended by Western governments including … ( read original story…
BBC World News barred from China in retaliation for UK revoking Beijing’s CGTN network
Chinese regulators have accused the UK’s global broadcaster of breaking China’s media code. The move follows the decision by UK authorities to revoke the license for China’s global state TV network … ( read original…
Future FinTech and China Foundation of Consumer Protection Enter Into Cooperation Agreement to Use Blockchain Technology Against Counterfeit Products
Future FinTech Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FTFT) (“Future FinTech”, “FTFT” or “Company”), a leading blockchain based e-commerce business and a … ( read original story …)
Beijing to build 26 leisure parks in 2021
Beijing plans to build 26 leisure parks in 2021 to improve the urban ecological environment, local authorities said. The newly-built parks will be located in the districts of Fengtai, Haidian and … ( read original…
India, China disengagement: Beijing begins disengaging troops from LAC;Â will Rahul Gandhi stop attacking Narendra Modi govt now?
In a breakthrough after a nine-month India-China border standoff, Defence Minister Singh had announced in Parliament that India and China have reached an agreement on disengagement in the North and … ( read original story…
China New Year travel slumps amid coronavirus curbs
The number of people who travelled in China ahead of Lunar New Year plummeted from two years ago as coronavirus restrictions curbed the world’s largest annual domestic migration. The seven-day … ( read original story…
China bans BBC news broadcasts in apparent retaliation
China has banned the BBC World News television channel from the few outlets where it could be seen in the country in possible retaliation after British regulators revoked … ( read original story …)
