https://www.scmp.com/rss/325909/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It seems to be a well-honed ritual: the fashionably dressed German woman in her mid-20s gets a manicure while her toddler keeps herself entertained with a tablet computer on the nail studio’s couch. Meanwhile, in a nearby storage room filled with gaudy goods of questionable origin – from counterfeit Barbie dolls and neo-Nazi T-shirts to unlicenced firecrackers and knuckle-dusters – the girl’s young father hands €400 (US$493) to a Vietnamese man in return for a thumb-size bag of off-white... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2139944/germanys-meth-tourism-problem-vietnamese-blamed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2139944/germanys-meth-tourism-problem-vietnamese-blamed?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:30:00 +0000 The Chinese under-20 football team on November 24 suspended its stint in a German regional league in the fallout of a row over Tibetan flags displayed by activists a week earlier during a clash with TSV Schott Mainz in the first of 16 planned friendly games. The game was halted for half-an-hour because the U20 side refused to continue, only agreeing to resume after the protesters removed the offending flags. The tour is part of a Sino-German football treaty signed by German chancellor Angela... https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/2121931/suspension-chinese-under-20-soccer-tour-casts-cloud-over-lauded-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/2121931/suspension-chinese-under-20-soccer-tour-casts-cloud-over-lauded-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Nov 2017 07:30:40 +0000