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Luis Guto Miguel se classificou à final do torneio juvenil de Roland Garros
Luis Guto Miguel se classificou à final do torneio juvenil de Roland Garros

Mainland Chinese creators on lifestyle apps are promoting Malaysia as an ideal destination for family life, citing international schools, Mandarin-speaking services, familiar food, and lower living costs.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's choice of body lotion, distributed to employees, was identified as the Diptyque amenity from Taipei's Mandarin Oriental hotel. Coincidentally, the hotel group announced a global partnership with Omani luxury fragrance brand Amouage, whose "Whispers Of The Fan" amenities will replace Diptyque in June.

US AI companies like Anthropic advocate for tighter controls on China while strategically positioning themselves in China-adjacent markets, highlighting an industry torn between competing for frontier AI capability and accessing lucrative markets.

Hong Kong-based Jardine Matheson announced the A$3.4 billion acquisition of Australian diagnostic and teleradiology group I-MED Radiology Network. The deal includes I-MED's minority stake in AI radiology solutions developer Harrison.ai.

No Brasil, o câncer de pulmão é um dos tipos mais comuns e de maior mortalidade, com cerca de 85% dos casos associados ao cigarro. Especialistas alertam para sinais como tosse persistente e falta de ar, e reforçam a importância do diagnóstico precoce e do acompanhamento médico.

Hong Kong's first astronaut, Lai Ka-ying, overcame motion sickness and other challenges to be selected for China's Shenzhou-23 mission. The 43-year-old mother of three credits sheer willpower for persevering through gruelling training.
Bad Bunny ha generado gran expectación en Barcelona tras ser visto en el Passeig de Gràcia. El artista se aloja en el Mandarin Oriental y ofrecerá dos conciertos este fin de semana en el Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys.

OpenAI is hiring Mandarin-speaking developer experience engineers in Singapore and growth partner managers in San Francisco, highlighting the growing importance of the Sinosphere's developer community in global AI development.

Yang Shuang-zi's "Taiwan Travelogue," translated by Lin King, has won the International Booker Prize. The novel, about two women on a culinary tour in 1930s Taiwan, is the first from Mandarin Chinese to win the award.

Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's novel 'Taiwan Travelogue' has won the 2026 International Booker Prize, marking the first time a work in Mandarin Chinese has received the award. Author Yang and translator Lin King, both Taiwanese, will share the £50,000 prize.

Taiwan Travelogue, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, is the first Mandarin Chinese novel to win the International Booker Prize. The £50,000 award was presented in London.

As China’s role in Africa’s economy continues to grow, so do the opportunities for locals that can speak Chinese. The change is partially being driven by the expanding footprint of smaller Chinese companies, which would rather hire locally than bring their own staff from China, and by the increasing role played by African firms in trade. Few of the thousands of Chinese executives, managers and workers who pour into Africa every year are proficient in the languages of their host countries,...

Hong Kong should adopt a top-down, comprehensive ecotourism policy to safeguard the city’s natural attractions, with a designated authority taking the lead, experts have urged, after a surge in Labour Day “Golden Week” visitors overwhelmed ecologically sensitive spots. The call on Monday came after a viral video showed a Mandarin-speaking tourist smoking a cigarette in front of the press and claiming he had confirmed with law enforcement officers that smoking was allowed at the beach of Ham Tin...

Hong Kong should adopt a top-down, comprehensive ecotourism policy to safeguard the city’s natural attractions, with a designated authority taking the lead, experts have urged, after a surge in Labour Day “golden week” visitors overwhelmed ecologically sensitive spots. The call on Monday came after a viral video showed a Mandarin-speaking tourist smoking a cigarette in front of the press and claiming he had confirmed with law enforcement officers that smoking was allowed at the beach of Ham Tin...

Küresel e-ticaret platformu WORLDEF, e-ticaret ve perakende sektörünün en büyük oyuncularını “ELC GLOBAL” isimli yeni bir topluluk altında bir araya getiriyor. Mandarin Oriental Bosphorus’ta özel bir lansmanla tanıtılan bu kurumsal ekosistem, dijital ticaretin geleceğine yön vermeyi hedefliyor. Sektördeki liderleri, yatırımcıları ve karar vericileri aynı masada buluşturan platform, sadece klasik bir iletişim ağı olmanın ötesine geçerek […]

Five years after Tibetan herder Tenzing Tsondu was hailed as “China’s most handsome man” for a seven-second video clip, he is now a romance film actor who dreams about more experiences in the wider world. Known by his Mandarin name Ding Zhen, he gained overnight fame across the nation, after a travel photographer’s seven-second clip showing his pure smile went viral in November 2020. The account he newly registered on a social media platform garnered two million followers in one day. Many people...

Keir Starmer’s elusive ex-chief of staff Morgan McSweeney finally spoke at length in public — along with a former Foreign Office mandarin. POLITICO whips through what we learned.

Olly Robbins gave MPs a classic civil servant’s performance – and there are lessons from the past about how ministers should respondThe Whitehall satire Yes Minister was said to be Margaret Thatcher’s favourite TV show due to its proximity to reality, as the programme’s loquacious top civil servant, Sir Humphrey, might have put it.Yes Minister had a familiar groove: there would be a problem in response to which the mandarin would artfully deploy the most astonishing sophistry to avoid blame or get his own way. Jim Hacker, the largely clueless yet ambitious politician played by the late Paul Eddington, rarely won the day. Continue reading...

The firing of Olly Robbins by Prime Minister Keir Starmer over a vetting oversight has reignited debates about the relationship between politicians and the civil service, with historical precedents suggesting such conflicts often backfire on the political leadership.

Where Olly Robbins relied on recollections, Cabinet Office’s top civil servant was at pains to link her account to paper trail Seen through the Westminster bubble, the Peter Mandelson vetting affair looks like an age-old conflict pitting ministers against mandarins. Yet the latest top civil servant to testify to parliament over what some are now calling “Mandygate” gave an intriguing account that suggested it has never been as simple as that.Cat Little, the top civil servant at the Cabinet Office, did not put it in these terms, but what she revealed was an extraordinary dispute between the country’s most senior civil servants. Continue reading...

PM under increasing pressure over Mandelson vetting scandal as sources say ministers spoke up at tense meetingKeir Starmer is looking increasingly isolated over his handling of the Peter Mandelson scandal with divisions emerging in cabinet over his decision to sack the Foreign Office civil servant Olly Robbins.On another difficult day for the prime minister, the Guardian learned of concerns around the cabinet table, a senior minister refused to say the dismissal was fair and several mandarins called for him to be reinstated. One Labour MP called on Starmer to quit. Continue reading...

The prime minister faces another defining day as he confronts MPs over one question – when did he and Number 10 learn that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting? Keir Starmer has blamed top foreign office diplomat – Sir Olly Robbins – for not telling him, but allies of the mandarin are fighting back […]

A controlled implosion demolished the 23-story former Mandarin Oriental hotel in Miami on Sunday. The site will be redeveloped into a new two-tower luxury hotel and residential complex, with completion expected by 2030.