https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Inter Milan said on Monday its coach Roberto Mancini is leaving, citing a "mutual agreement" amid media reports the Serie A club's new Chinese owners decided fresh blood is needed to rejuvenate the team. https://www.thelocal.it/20160808/mancini-set-to-leave-inter-milan-reports Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:33:23 +0200 mancini-set-to-leave-inter-milan-reports Italian police said on Friday they had raided nine premises as part of an investigation into a Chinese criminal gang they suspect of being behind a spate of attacks on North Africans. https://www.thelocal.it/20160701/police-raid-italys-chinese-mafia-over-race-crime Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:57:08 +0200 police-raid-italys-chinese-mafia-over-race-crime An Italian mayor has taken the unusual step of trying to sell his cash-strapped town on Facebook in order to boost its dwindling coffers. https://www.thelocal.it/20160609/mayor-of-broke-italian-town-offers-it-to-chinese-buyers-on-facebook Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:28:22 +0200 mayor-of-broke-italian-town-offers-it-to-chinese-buyers-on-facebook A TV advert for a Chinese laundry detergent has been widely condemned, with commentators saying it’s the most racist ad to ever be screened. https://www.thelocal.it/20160527/a-racist-chinese-laundry-ad-has-caused-outragebut-italy-did-it-first Fri, 27 May 2016 17:31:20 +0200 a-racist-chinese-laundry-ad-has-caused-outragebut-italy-did-it-first Online retail giant Alibaba is on the verge of leading a Chinese takeover of AC Milan from disgraced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160428/alibaba-on-verge-of-leading-chinese-takeover-of-ac-milan Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:37:54 +0200 alibaba-on-verge-of-leading-chinese-takeover-of-ac-milan AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi received an offer from China to take a majority stake in the seven-time European champions with an agreement not far away, Italian media reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160415/chinese-make-bid-for-berlusconis-ac-milan Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:30:15 +0200 chinese-make-bid-for-berlusconis-ac-milan The owner of a leather factory in the Lombardy region has been charged with exploiting child labour after an eight-year-old boy was found working on the premises. https://www.thelocal.it/20150911/boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:19:53 +0200 boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory Pope Francis will visit one of Italy's largest Chinese communities in November, at a time when the Vatican is engaged in negotiations to normalize relations with Beijing, the Holy See said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150327/pope-to-visit-chinese-community-in-florence Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:02:08 +0100 pope-to-visit-chinese-community-in-florence Three months from opening day, organizers of this year's World Expo in Milan said on Thursday they had sold eight million tickets, a third of the projected total. https://www.thelocal.it/20150130/chinese-snap-up-bulk-of-milan-expo-tickets Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:13:00 +0100 chinese-snap-up-bulk-of-milan-expo-tickets Three Chinese managers were found guilty of multiple manslaughter by an Italian court on Monday, a year after a deadly fire in a garment factory in Tuscany which left seven people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20150113/chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:20:00 +0100 chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire 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.it/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 Chinese conglomerate, Fosun, has sweetened its bid to win control of French holiday group Club Med, coming in higher than a rival offer from an Italian businessmen, market and corporate sources told AFP on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141201/chinese-eclipse-italian-bid-for-club-med Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:00:37 +0100 chinese-eclipse-italian-bid-for-club-med A long battle to control French holiday firm Club Med took another turn Tuesday after the French stock market authority announced Italian businessman Andrea Bonomi had made an improved offer. https://www.thelocal.it/20141112/italian-businessman-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:18:00 +0100 italian-businessman-trumps-chinese-bid-for-club-med It has been called fashion's dirty little secret but according to Miuccia Prada, soon everybody will be doing it. https://www.thelocal.it/20140929/chinese-fashion-titans-look-to-italy-for-value Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:49:00 +0200 chinese-fashion-titans-look-to-italy-for-value UPDATED: The number of small businesses owned by immigrants surged 44 percent between April and June as they snapped up failed Italian firms at bargain prices, the head of a Rome business group told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20140916/immigrants-drive-italys-economy Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:47:00 +0200 immigrants-drive-italys-economy Chinese businesses are flourishing amid Italy’s recession, with the number of new businesses rising by 6.1 percent between 2012 and 2013, compared to a 1.6 drop in the number of new Italian-owned businesses. https://www.thelocal.it/20140813/chinese-entrepreneurs-buck-italys-recession Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:42:00 +0200 chinese-entrepreneurs-buck-italys-recession Italian authorities are searching for a home for a Chinese woman who has been cared for by doctors for the past six years, after she was abandoned following a stroke, according to a local media report. https://www.thelocal.it/20140604/chinese-woman-adopted-by-doctors-for-six-years Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:34:00 +0200 chinese-woman-adopted-by-doctors-for-six-years A man has admitted to killing a Chinese woman, whose body was found in an apartment in the Tuscan textiles-hub of Prato on Monday, in what he reportedly said was a “crime of passion”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140520/man-admits-to-killing-chinese-woman-in-prato Tue, 20 May 2014 14:31:00 +0200 man-admits-to-killing-chinese-woman-in-prato Five people were detained Thursday as part of an inquiry into a fire last December that killed seven people in a Chinese-run garment factory in Italy's Tuscany region. https://www.thelocal.it/20140321/five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:07:57 +0100 five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire Police on Thursday uncovered an "enormous" haul of cannabis in Tuscany, seizing 5,000 plants and arresting a Chinese gang accused of being behind the drug factory. https://www.thelocal.it/20140227/italian-police-bust-enormous-cannabis-farm Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:39:00 +0100 italian-police-bust-enormous-cannabis-farm