Huawei makes billion-dollar profit despite us sanctions

Huawei makes billion-dollar profit despite us sanctions

Shenzhen (dpa) – huawei closed the past year with a profit in the billions despite tough sanctions imposed by the u.S. The chinese technology group benefited from its strong position in its home market, while international smartphone sales, among other things, declined.

The company’s revenue from shenzhen, south china, rose 3.8 percent in 2020 to 891.4 billion yuan (about 115.8 billion euros). Profit rose 3.2 percent to 64.6 billion yuan (8.4 billion euros), huawei announced wednesday.

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“We need more empathy”

New start at the coburg state theater, even if it is still not really clear in what concrete framework the upcoming period of general renovation is to be managed. At the start of the work after the summer break, there was real jubilation about and for the new intendant. Bernhard F. Loges, successor to bodo busse, who moved to the saarbruck state theater, stepped onto the stage in the grob haus in a confident and relaxed manner for the employee ceremony, which is always a symbolic act primarily inwardly, but also "outwardly" with an emphatic sociopolitical message is.

In fact, bernhard F. Loges, until now music theater dramaturge at the deutsche oper am rhein, already very present at the landestheater and in the city during the interim year with a four-man directorate from the remaining management staff. Correspondingly "homegrown he’s already on the move, having moved with his family from dusseldorf to monchroden in the coburg region and "settled in well.

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540 Kilometers by tractor to windheim

540 kilometers by tractor to windheim

Claudia muller from ravensbruck visited her sister, who had been living with her for ten years, with her tractor brand knuppel-deutz; power 15 hp, year of construction 1954: a french and a bavarian flag as decoration, a sign with the inscription "women need adventure at the window.

With her air-cool bulldog knuppel-deutz from 1954 and her caravan eriba-touring (year of construction 1990) claudia muller has been chugging through southern germany for the last four years. This year she visited – for the first time together with her husband peter – her sister lisa who lives in windheim.

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Social associations make front against the afd

Social associations make front against the afd

Nicole hochst does not want to understand the excitement. Her question about disabled people in germany is about factual knowledge, in order to recognize the need for action, and also about whether better equipment might be necessary, the afd member of parliament assures trustingly on her facebook page.

"But in the minds of the leftist elites, the buzzword "euthanasia" pops up reflexively in connection with the handicapped."And then it is pointed out in the entry that hochst himself has a disabled son.

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Spectacle around the construction site

Spectacle around the construction site

When the "gross schatzer construction site spectacle" when the stage was set up, no one had any idea that there would be so much smiling and laughing in the aftermath. The construction workers werner schmutzler and georg lauth sat down on the beer crate next to the mortel machine and calmly and prudently looked at their surroundings from this perspective.
But then florian silbereisen (markus schreibvogel) swept onto the stage and brought DJ otzi (andi dippold) with him. The three-headed band with klaus bauerlein, mathias rauch and stefan molitor supported musically. Silbereisen asked everyone right at the beginning to turn the horgerat up to loud in order to understand everything correctly.
It thought surely also of the servants in the city hall and in the local council, which got their fat off several times: with the building sites in schaatz has halt in the city hall and in the local council nobody a clue and woman also nothing. They can all be beaten away." even the session president, second mayor holger dremel, sometimes winced.

Song of concrete

At the "song of beton in the mortelmischmaschin" but all concerned and all in the hall sang along again enthusiastically. Also ivan rebroff (stefan molitor) sang: "nur baustelln gibt's in schaatz." but stop, stop! They also exist in schaatz, but of course they mean the one in giech! And what happened there, the construction workers showed now also times in action, when they were to plug twisted canal pipes, which naturally did not go so and so also not.
So first of all wait and take a break. Therefore also the eternal construction site with detours over kubelstein and wattendorf – because of giech in the valley of the clueless. This building site joy, excellently staged by the firemen under the direction of martin dippold, brought the hall to a frenzy.

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Insurer for retirement only at 69

Insurer for retirement only at 69

In view of the growing pressure on the statutory pension, the german insurance industry is advocating a further increase in the retirement age.

An increase to 68 or 69 from 2030 or 2040 should not be taboo in view of rising life expectancy, said peter schwark, member of the executive board of the german insurance association (gdv). A federal government pension commission starts this wednesday. The advisory body is to make proposals by 2020 for the long-term safeguarding of pensions – for the period after 2025.

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Young englishmen brew beer

Young englishmen brew beer

An intense smell of beer is in the air. Impressed, billy and ina stand in front of a rough filter. "This is a noisy vat. This is where the solid parts of the mash, the 'treber', are separated from the liquid ones, the 'wurze'", explains brewer robert smith – but not in german, but in english, because he comes from england, more precisely from wallenfels' twin town of bingham near nottingham.
The murmur heard in the kaiserhof brewery that morning is also in english: words like "interesting" and "diamond" or "cool. The young participants in the brewery tour are exchange students from the KZG and caister high school in the district of kronach as part of the german-english school exchange program. The visit of the kaiserhof firefighters is part of an extensive program put together by the responsible teachers from the KZG, senior lecturer elke walthes and student advisor peggy kober.
"I like it very much in kronach", says 13-year-old billy pywell and adds: "i like the way kronach is divided into different levels – the upper and lower town – and i like the old buildings very much. I also like all the snow. In my home country, there is only a little snowfall sometimes, but it doesn't stick around." billy attends caister high school in the 5000-population town of caister-on-sea. The seaside resort in the county of norfolk in england is located directly on the coast, about five kilometers north of great yarmouth. The people of kronach are extremely hospitable, he said, and he received a very friendly welcome at school and got on very well with his host family. "I'm staying with phil wietasch in burggrub. We get along well. The communication, mainly in english, works very well", he revealed. He is already looking forward to phil's visit in the summer of 2013.
Billy takes part in the exchange program to learn more about germany and the people here and to improve his language skills. "The program that the school has put together is very varied. We went tobogganing, bowling and to the christmas market in mitwitz, for example. Today's tour was also interesting", he praises.
Ina has also already done a lot with her host family. Together they went ice skating, swimming, to the christmas market in kronach and shopping. She lives with anna-lena froba in buchbach. The reasons for their participation are similar to those of phil. She is also here for the first time. "Kronach is very different from my home. It's almost like two worlds – just in terms of the landscape. The food is different, the people dress differently. But it's great here and everyone is very nice", the 14-year-old is happy. She is sure that her knowledge of german has improved as a result of her stay here. She enjoyed the brewery tour because the brewer explained everything very well.

Perfect english
Robert Smith speaks perfect english for a simple reason. He is an englishman himself. "I have been to the county of kronach every two years with our music club as part of the town twinning of bingham and wallenfels. I did an internship at the kaiserhof brewery in 2004. I wanted to become a brewer and stay in the district of kronach. I emigrated to germany in 2006. I made friends right away, I enjoy my work a lot and I feel very comfortable here", says the 24-year-old.
The return visit of the kronach high school students to caister high school is planned for summer 2013. Then 18 seventh-graders from KZG will travel to england, including phil wietasch and anna-lena froba.
The two teachers in charge, elke waltes and peggy kober, are very pleased about the partnership. Since there are not many schools in england with german as a foreign language, they have been trying for a long time to find a corresponding partnership. Now in its second year, the project is running well and smoothly. That is why they want to continue. Since only six participants from caister high school registered this year, three students from lynn grove high school were included for the first time. This is in the town of gorleston, near great yarmouth in norfolk and pays around 1100 schoolchildren between the ages of eleven and 16.
The teachers thanked the sponsors for their support. Kronach creativ sponsored "kronach-leuchtet-kalender" as a guest gift. The car dealership vetter made its minibus available free of charge to take the children to the train station with their packs. In addition, the city of kronach took over the costs for the workshop in the frankische galerie as a funeral gift. Of course, the two teachers will also be there in the summer of 2013 – if the word gets out: the students from kronach are coming to england.

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Nsu committee: in the dark, but still illuminating

Nsu committee: in the dark, but still illuminating

The former president of the bavarian state office for the protection of the constitution, gerhard forster, was already summoned to appear before the state parliament committee a good month ago, which was investigating the role of the security authorities in the series of murders by the "national socialist underground" (NSU) wants to clear up. The opposition parties from the SPD, the free voters and the greens apparently doubted his first statement that the bavarian constitutional protection agency did not have a V-man "on it" had been involved in the neo-nazi cell, which then became the murderous NSU. This loved forster also yesterday in public meeting in the dark.

But his statement was illuminating in that it explained the closed mindset of the state authorities, which stood in the way of an earlier clarification of the murders. Forster yesterday: "we don’t know the V people of other offices. We did not particularly like having the federal office (for the protection of the constitution) in bavaria."

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Aids experts hope for cure in a few years

aids experts hope for cure in a few years

"Healing research has made more progress in the last twelve months than ever before."He does not believe in a breakthrough to a vaccine in the near future. "We do not have vaccinations and will not have them in the next few years either."

Around 1500 scientists, doctors, psychologists, lawyers and nurses discussed new developments in their field from friday to sunday at the aids and hepatitis days in unterschleibheim near munich. According to the organizers, the pharmaceutical industry also presented its products at the largest german conference on this topic this year.

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Spab with frisbees in the meeting place for seniors

Spab with frisbees in the meeting place for seniors

Admittedly, primarily a newspaper is made to be read. But it is also almost multifunctional: it is often used for wrapping and some people swear by newsprint when cleaning windows. And the gymnastics group of the bamberg diaconia senior citizens’ meeting place has come up with a very special use: they use it for sports.

"We use almost anything you can get your hands on," explains group leader. We do sporting exercises with towels, beer mats and newspapers, but also with balls, gym bands or frisbee discs", explains group leader ingrid pamperl. The exercise equipment is used for simple coordination and movement exercises. Sometimes there are legs sitting, sometimes it is standing on one leg. And since everything is always better with music, there is music to go with every exercise. The repertoire ranges from oldies to current hits.

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