A Devon-based, award-winning coffee pod producer is breaking into the Chinese market with its eco-friendly, compostable coffee capsules made from wood and bark.
Blue Goose’s coffee pods are now selling in China online through the Great British Food Store on the country’s largest social media platform, WeChat.
The Great British Food Store just set up by Business West, one of the UK’s largest Chambers of Commerce, is already selling 20 UK food and drink brands on WeChat which has a user base of 1.2 billion.
Lex Thornley, co-founder of Blue Goose, based in Exeter...
Devon-based company Water Babies is making one of the UK’s most unusual exports to China a reality in the coming months.
The Honiton company, which beat MacDonald’s to the title of British Fanchisor of the Year in 2016, has already successfully introduced its world-leading baby swimming school into markets as diverse as Ireland, Canada, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Germany later this year. Nine Chinese business professionals from Shenzhen have just arrived in the UK, to swap their suits for swimsuits, as they learn how to teach babies right from birth through to four years how...
Exeter mum Tracey Frankum has joined the Fez Army to raise funds for FORCE by trekking along the Great Wall of China.
She sets out this weekend on the trip of a lifetime that will involve five days of walking along part of the 13,000-mile structure.
Each day she will trek along the stony, steep and sometimes slippery path. Some sections are renovated and others not as the wall twists and winds its way along the mountains, interspersed with crumbling watchtowers.
It is described as demanding but also very rewarding, particularly on a clear day when you can look at...
Dartmoor National Park has been chosen as one of the 101 British landmarks that Visit Britain will be featuring in their £1.6m marketing campaign in China - GREAT Names for GREAT Britain
The campaign is designed to encourage Chinese people to learn more about Britain by inviting them to come up with the most fitting, meaningful and memorable Chinese names for British places and experiences.
This is especially important as some British names are difficult to translate or pronounce in Chinese.
Over the next week, Dartmoor National Park will be promoted in China across...
Trekkers on the first ever Hospiscare Sahara Trek Challenge are celebrating after raising £40,000 for the local Exeter charity.
Twenty two intrepid trekkers endured searing daytime temperatures, chilly nights, a sandstorm and even spent an evening teaching the hokey cokey to their local Berber guides!
Celia Wilkinson, Hospiscare running and challenge fundraiser, said: “We only walked for three days instead of the planned four because of a massive sandstorm which appeared from nowhere, it was nice and sunny and blue skies, then it went quite dark and the wind got up. As our...
Notable ceramicist, Takeshi Yasuda, will talk about Jingdezhen, the city in China associated with the historical and contemporary production of porcelain. He will give illustrated examples of how clay from Kaolin mountains was created in the city and expand upon his own work currently on show in the Devon Guild exhibition Porcelain Complexion.
A politics student from the University of Exeter has been selected by the British Council to be an ambassador for UK education in China at a special forum promoting the benefits of international experience.
Sabrina Borgatti was successful in winning one of eight places available to UK students in what was an extremely tough competition.
After an initial screening of applications, a panel of judges composed of leaders in business, education and government from Beijing selected Sabrina for showing a high level of understanding of the issues surrounding international education...
Chinese officials have reportedly cracked-down on foreign media in Tibet by dismantling satellite dishes at the Labrang Tashi Kyil monastery in Labrang (Gansu province), Amdho region, eastern Tibet on March 10th, the 54th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising in Lhasa.
The monastery was ordered to remove and burn their satellite dishes. Monastery officials were informed the satellites would be replaced with state sanctioned devices, capable of only receiving Chinese state controlled programmes. The move will block the Monastery from obtaining access to international media.
On 12th January, a young Tibetan set himself alight in a protest for freedom from Chinese governance, taking the current total of self-immolations to 96.
Tsering Tashi (Tsebhe), 22 years of age, succumbed to his injuries at his protest site.
Speaking to activist media, Phayul, Ajam Amchok, an exiled Tibetan with close contacts in the region said Tsebhe self-immolated in the middle of Amchok town in Sangchu region of Kanlho, eastern Tibet.
“Tsebhe set himself on fire in Amchok town at around 1 pm (local time),” Ajam said. “He succumbed to his injuries at the protest...
Journalists at one of China's largest newspapers, Southern Weekly , working on the Southern Weekend publication, are currently on strike against government censorship.
On Monday and continuing on Tuesday protesters gathered outside the newspaper's headquarters in Guangzhou. The strike is a rare show of dissent in China against propaganda officials. Chinese media are 'supervised' by so-called propaganda departments that often change content to align it with party thinking.
The publication, considered by many to be China's most respectable newspaper, saw journalists and some...
