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World’s Longest Bridge in Guangdong
The world’s longest sea bridge is the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge (HKMB). 55 kilometers long, with a dual three-lane carriage way and two offshore artificial islands, this mammoth construction was finished after nine years, and opened to the public in October 2018.
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AI in China: Becoming a Global Leader
Not a day passes without news about how China is turning itself into a trailblazer of digital technology and AI (Artificial Intelligence). At this year’s World Internet Conference (WIC) held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, hundreds of new online-based technology solutions were presented by various global players.
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In China not only intellectual, dissident artists have a tough life – think political repression, threatening, even imprisonment – their partners suffer, too. Liu Xia is one of those – she is the wife of Liu Xiaobo, writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and dissident of China’s leading party. He has been in prison for almost five years now and Liu Xia herself has been under house arrest since 2010, although she was never charged with a crime. Continue reading “The Forbidden Photos: Liu Xia in Berlin”
Albert Kahn exhibition: Never-seen China photos from 1914
“The World ca. 1914 – Color Photography before the Great War” is a new exhibition in Berlin showing color photographs from Europe, Asia and Africa during the turn of the 19/20th century up to 1914, the year of the break-out of World War I.
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Fashion’s New Faces – the Rise of the Chinese Top Model
With the rapid growth of luxury goods in China, international fashion brands address their marketing messages to Asian consumers and hire more and more Asian faces to present and promote their clothes and accessories on the catwalk and in ad campaigns.
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Ai Wei Wei Exhibition in Berlin: Record Attendance and a Missing Artist
“Evidence”, Ai Wei Wei’s most recent exhibition in Berlin, Germany, closes with a record attendance of almost 250.000 visitors within 14 weeks. The exhibition was one of the largest ones by the Chinese artist so far, with Berlin’s famous Martin Gropius museum building being the ideal location, offering spacious exhibition halls for Ai Wei Wei’s art installations.
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All in or Nothing: adidas aims to be China’s No.1 Sports Brand
How is adidas doing in China? Last year, the German sportswear company announced its goal to establish 8500 stores in China by 2015. This year saw factory workers of a Chinese supplier to adidas protest against unfair wages and a lack of social insurance.
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Marketing in China: What´s New? 