This day, 4 February, in 2022, the 24th Winter Olympic Games were grandly opened in Beijing. President Xi Jinping was in attendance to announce the opening, looked on by approximately 170 official representatives from nearly 70 countries and international...
This day, 3 February, 1964, Premier Zhou Enlai visited Somalia. There, at a welcome meeting in Mogadishu, Zhou delivered a speech in which he said, “This is my first time coming to Somalia, but as far as I personally...
This day, 2 February, in 1999, Vice President of China Hu Jintao paid an official visit to the Republic of South Africa, during which South African President Nelson Mandela said that the South African people were inspired and enlightened...
This day, 1 February, in 1662, Dutch Governor Frederick Coyett surrendered Formosa to Zheng Chenggong, better known internationally as Koxinga, after he besieged Zeelandia 8 months earlier. Zheng had led tens of thousands of soldiers from Xiamen via Penghu...
This day, 31 January, in 1992, Premier Li Peng attended the United Nations Security Council Summit held in New York, where he reminded that China would abide by the purposes and principles of the Charter, and discussed challenges facing...
This day, 30 January, in 2004, the “China-Arab States Cooperation Forum” was established during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. This was to lead to a 2018 agreement to establish a future-oriented,...
As soon as a person wakes up, there are so many things to be dealt with on an everyday basis. This could be said true for lawyers practicing litigation or for transactional lawyers. In both cases, it is essential...
John Waite was belting out, “Missing You”, as we stepped into a taxi outside Macau International Airport. That, along with the fact that the vehicle was a Toyota Crown, affirmed that Macau is similar to Hong Kong, the Philippines...