Tag: tourism
Hong Kong can tap into Latin America by opening trade office in Dominican Republic: envoy
This is the tenth in a series of interviews with consuls general of emerging and belt and road economies with which Hong Kong is keen to build ties. The previous ones are here. The Dominican Republic’s top diplomat in Hong Kong has invited city authorities to open a trade office and use his Caribbean nation…
Scholars debunk myth of Roman settlement in China after DNA tests, doubt still draws tourists
In the remote village of Liqian, nestled in northwestern China’s Gansu province, a captivating myth once captured global attention and sparked an intriguing question: are the local people descendants of a lost Roman legion? In the 1990s, the presence of Romanesque architecture and the villagers’ European traits – evident in their facial features – fuelled…
