November 2025

Opinions 25. November 2025

November 25th – Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

137 women and girls killed every day by intimate partners or family members in 2024 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024 – one every 10 minutes – according to new data released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women, with levels unchanged despite years of global commitments. Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the 2025 femicide brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women confirms that femicide continues to take the lives of tens…

Chinese Community in Vienna, Culture & Literature, Interviews, Opinions 9. November 2025

International Symposium on Johann Strauss and Contemporary Music Culture Successfully Hosted by the School of Humanities in Shanghai Jiaotong University

2025 marked the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss II. The whole year, Vienna has been offering an impressive variety of Johann Strauss events under the title “Vienna goes Strauss”, including concerts, operettas, theater, films, dances, art exhibitions, cultural picknicks, and other forms of performances.  To commemorate this anniversary of Johann Strauss II’s, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Below as Jiaoda) organized a two-day international symposium this October on “Johann Strauss and Contemporary Music Culture”, a first-time and well-implemented cooperation between Jiaoda’s Institute of Humanities and Arts, and the Golden July Music Festival Vienna. Hosted by Jiaoda’s School of Humanities, the symposium saw a collection…

Allgemein, Brief News Review, Opinions 2. November 2025

Brief News Review

The US President Donald Trump and the Chinese President Xi Jinping met each other on 30. October 2025 in Busan, Korea, and spoke in the highly anticipated meeting that lasted close to two hours. Trump was accompanied by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue. Chief of Staff Cai Qi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu, Vice Premier He Lifeng, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, and Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Zheng Shanjie…