https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Paris, home to two of the three French people taken ill in China's coronavirus outbreak, cancelled a Lunar New Year parade on Sunday as a "precaution", the capital's mayor Anne Hidalgo said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20200126/chinese-new-year-parade-pulled-in-paris-as-virus-precaution Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:23:24 +0100 chinese-new-year-parade-pulled-in-paris-as-virus-precaution A man "deliberately" rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, injuring three Chinese students, one of them seriously, near the French city of Toulouse on Friday, authorities said, adding that the attack was not linked to terrorism. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171111/three-chinese-students-hurt-in-car-attack-near-toulouse Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:39:55 +0100 three-chinese-students-hurt-in-car-attack-near-toulouse Chinese tourists say they feel "abandoned in France" after being repeatedly targeted by robbers in Paris who know the big-spending holidaymakers carry large amounts of cash and bags of valuables around the French capital. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171109/french-robbers-prey-on-big-spending-chinese-tourists-in-romantic-paris Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:58:49 +0100 french-robbers-prey-on-big-spending-chinese-tourists-in-romantic-paris About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday against the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170403/clashes-as-thousands-march-in-paris-after-police-kill-chinese-man Mon, 03 Apr 2017 10:15:07 +0200 clashes-as-thousands-march-in-paris-after-police-kill-chinese-man China Tuesday urged France to protect the safety and rights of its citizens after police in Paris killed a Chinese national, sparking a violent protest. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170328/china-tells-france-to-protect-its-citizens-after-fatal-police-shooting Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:06:22 +0200 china-tells-france-to-protect-its-citizens-after-fatal-police-shooting A Chinese shop owner was attacked and forced to hand over €5,000 ($5,600) in a Paris suburb in the latest attack on the Chinese community in the French capital, police said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160908/chinese-shop-owner-robbed-in-latest-paris-incident Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:26:07 +0200 chinese-shop-owner-robbed-in-latest-paris-incident Several thousand ethnic Chinese staged a protest march in Paris on Sunday over the fatal mugging of a Chinese tailor last month, as crime against community members has spiralled https://www.thelocal.fr/20160904/chinese-parisians-march-for-greater-security Sun, 04 Sep 2016 18:41:54 +0200 chinese-parisians-march-for-greater-security Around 1,800 people from the Chinese community in France took part in a march near Paris Sunday calling for greater security after a deadly robbery earlier this month. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160822/chinese-march-in-paris-to-demand-better-security Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:18:59 +0200 chinese-march-in-paris-to-demand-better-security Chinese tourists have once again been targeted by robbers in Paris, who pounced as they boarded their bus near Charles de Gaulle airport. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160802/thieves-use-teargas-to-rob-chinese-tourists-near-paris Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:28:43 +0200 thieves-use-teargas-to-rob-chinese-tourists-near-paris It started with a nannying job and ended with the parents chopped up in the bathtub: a Chinese couple go on trial in France on Tuesday for a double murder worthy of a film plot. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160119/chinese-pair-in-french-court-over-grisly-murders Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:26:38 +0100 chinese-pair-in-french-court-over-grisly-murders France is to shorten visa delivery processes for Chinese tourist groups to one day from the current two as Paris targets a larger slice of a growing market, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160112/france-chinese-tourists-visa-cuts Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:29:28 +0100 france-chinese-tourists-visa-cuts A corruption trial over fake Chinese wedding trips in France resumed this week after it was dramatically postponed when a senator who stood accused of complicity committed suicide. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151015/trial-over-fake-chinese-weddings-resumes Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:59:37 +0200 trial-over-fake-chinese-weddings-resumes Police in Paris have enlisted the help of students studying Chinese, Japanese and Korean to warn Asian tourists about the ever-present scams and street crime. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150821/students-assist-police-with-asian-visitors Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:21:58 +0200 students-assist-police-with-asian-visitors After a four-year struggle, France has convinced China to recognise "Bordeaux" as a brand in a bid to combat counterfeit wines, the government announced. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150701/france-persuades-china-to-trademark-bordeaux Wed, 01 Jul 2015 14:34:34 +0200 france-persuades-china-to-trademark-bordeaux A Chinese businessman whose suitcase was stolen at a Paris train station has written to the French prime minister to call for better security in the capital, while 50,000 Chinese people have signed a petition to help get the message across. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150421/france-chinese-petition-crime-rate-theft-paris Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:58:34 +0200 france-chinese-petition-crime-rate-theft-paris Chinese investors now rival the French in buying vineyards in Bordeaux, industry professionals say, in a sign that China's thirst for French wine remains unquenched. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150318/chinese-rival-french-for-bordeaux-vineyards Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:01:18 +0100 chinese-rival-french-for-bordeaux-vineyards An Italian historian's theory that Mona Lisa might be a Chinese slave and Leonardo da Vinci's mother - making the 15th-century polymath half-Chinese - sent online commentators into a frenzy on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141203/mona-lisa-was-a-chinese-slave-italian-historian Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:17:00 +0100 mona-lisa-was-a-chinese-slave-italian-historian A long battle to control French holiday firm Club Med took another turn on Tuesday after the French stock market authority announced Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi had made an improved offer. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141112/italian-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:43:00 +0100 italian-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med The French foreign minister Laurent Fabius greeted Chinese tourists off the plane at Charles-de-Gaulle airport on Monday morning, to set an example for his fellow Parisians on how to welcome visitors. However it seems Fabius is not well known among Chinese people. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140428/french-minister-woos-chinese-visitors-to-paris Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:32:00 +0200 french-minister-woos-chinese-visitors-to-paris Are the Chinese losing their taste for Bordeaux wines? Exports for bottles of Bordeaux to China slid by six percent last year, meaning a worrying drop in sales figures of 1.4 percent overall. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140314/chinese Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:20:00 +0100 chinese