From Mindong, Hong Kong and Taiwan to Milan’s Chinese community, various voices speak at a meeting sponsored by AsiaNews on the feast day of Saint Francis Xavier, grateful to the communities that have kept and passed on the faith amid many difficulties and new encounters, with questions about meaning in a changing world.
At least 15 people have died after turning to the facility, the authorities report. The clinic's founder, Wu Pengfei, promoted his treatment online and prescribed medicines containing toxic herbs to patients.
At the conference ‘Youth and Faith in Greater China’ that AsiaNews is promoting for 3 December in Milan, the Chinese translation of theologian Severino Dianich's book ‘Jesus. A tale for those who know nothing ... or has forgotten’. A new initiative promoted by the PIME Foundation as an instrument of first evangelisation for those who approach the places of the Christian tradition in Italy and Europe.
China's State Council released a white paper on rural road construction. Between 2013 and 2023, paved roads expanded by 21.7 per cent. Road construction is another of Beijing’s cards in cooperation with developing countries within the Belt and Road Initiative.
New supply chain regulations adopted by the United States and the European Union are forcing many companies to take a stand on the issue of Uyghur exploitation. The German automaker sold its controversial Urumqi plant "for economic reasons", but it is still renewing its business plans in China. The Japanese clothing brand says that it does not use cotton from Xinjiang.
Faced with the dozens of people run over out of ‘revenge’ in Zhuhai and the multiplication of similar incidents, the Beijing government is calling for ‘in-depth investigations’ into the disputes involving families, neighbours, and missing wages. Former Red Guard writer Yan Chunguo: ‘Social unrest is the result of a State that has lost the idea of justice, making the people lose their soul’.
