Society

A collection of 8,100 books that was donated by an 82-year-old Jewish man arrived at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Wednesday.

The donor, Kurt Wick, first arrived in Shanghai with his family in 1939 to escape the persecution of Nazi Germany. To make a living, his family set up a shop selling handbags in Hongkou district.

Wick and his family left Shanghai in 1948 to settle in London.

Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has suspended its operations in Beijing after some of its employees tested positive for the coronavirus in the Chinese capital, where the city officials are conducting Covid-19 tests on millions, especially employees of restaurants, food delivery services and market vendors.

China's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Sunday that it had reported 32 new Covid-19 cases in the country.

Huawei Technologies Co expressed disappointment over a Canadian court's ruling over its chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, and the company said it will continue to stand with Meng in her pursuit of justice and freedom.

The company released a statement saying "Huawei is disappointed in the ruling today by the Supreme Court of British Columbia. We have repeatedly expressed confidence in Meng's innocence."

Wang Wen, the managing president of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China

I live in Wangjing, a quite internationalized area in Beijing. Many Fortune 500 companies are headquartered there, and 10 percent of the around 600,000 residents are expats. Every weekend, I take walks in Wangjing's many parks to exercise and watch the changes in the city.