Estonia’s visa centres in China help the Chinese citizens apply for a Schengen area visa. In addition to the existing facilities in Beijing and Shanghai, people can apply for an Estonian visa at VFS Global visa application centres in Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Jinan, Kunming, Nanjing, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Xi´an and Wuhan. According to the […]
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The Estonian Business School (EBS) and Volkswagen Financial Services have signed an agreement that provides the students of EBS and its partner university, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with an opportunity to draw up a project for the development of Volkswagen business activities in the Chinese market. The project involves twelve EBS and six Hong Kong
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Most long-term expats know there is nothing quite like the taste of home, but one Estonian is now trying to recreate the taste of her homeland in China. Anete Elken moved to Beijing in 2014 after majoring in Asian studies at Tallinn University and studying advanced Mandarin in southern China. As a way to keep
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The Estonian embassy in Beijing, together with other government agencies, is organising a week-long promotion week for Estonia in the Chinese capital with cultural events, thus celebrating 25 years of diplomatic relations with China. The events, running from 25 April to 1 May, organised in cooperation with the ministry of rural affairs, the ministry of
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One a country of over one billion and the other a country of over one million, China and Estonia seem to be worlds apart. Even though, there are quite a few similar lines of thought and ways of doing things in these two completely different countries, writes Katrin Winter, our author living in Xi’an, China.
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2,400 years ago the philosopher Socrates claimed: “I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world (kosmopolitês).” In 1937 Ernest Hemingway wrote in his novel To Have and Have Not: “In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.” Under our Global Estonians feature we talk to
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Katrin Winter taught Chinese in Xi’an, China. Here she writes what’s it really like to live and work in China. I arrived in Xi’an, China in January 2013 with my Zimbabwean husband David. Our primary reason for coming to this faraway and foreign place was to learn Mandarin, which is going quite nicely. We also
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