Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Belgium

royalty
- Leopold II was King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest surviving son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death – the longest reign of any Belgian monarch.

  • [britainnica] Keen on establishing Belgium as an imperial power, he led the first European efforts to develop the Congo River basin, making possible the formation in 1885 of the Congo Free State, annexed in 1908 as the Belgian Congo and now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Although he played a significant role in the development of the modern Belgian state, he was also responsible for widespread atrocities committed under his rule against his colonial subjects.Presenting himself as a philanthropist eager to bring the benefits of Christianity, Western civilization, and commerce to African natives—a guise that he perpetuated for many years—Leopold hosted an international conference of explorers and geographers at the royal palace in Brussels in 1876. Several years later he hired the explorer Henry Morton Stanley to be his man in Africa. For five years Stanley traveled up and down the immense waterways of the Congo River basin, setting up trading posts, building roads, and persuading local chiefs—almost all of them illiterate—to sign treaties with Leopold. The treaties, some of which appear to have been subsequently doctored to Leopold’s liking, were then put to use by the Belgian monarch.Although Belgium’s government felt that colonies would be an extravagance for a small country with no navy or merchant marine, that situation suited Leopold perfectly. He persuaded first the United States and then all the major nations of western Europe to recognize a huge swath of Central Africa—roughly the same territory as the modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo—as his personal property. He called it État Indépendant du Congo, the Congo Free State. It was the world’s only private colony, and Leopold referred to himself as its “proprietor.”
- albert ii
  • Former Belgian King Albert II has admitted he is the father of a woman born from an affair, after he was forced to give a DNA test which came back positive.He had been fighting the paternity claim by Belgian artist Delphine Boël, 51, for more than a decade.He lost his immunity from prosecution after he abdicated in 2013 due to ill health.Ms Boël's lawyer said the admission from the former king was a "relief".In a statement released on Monday, the ex-king's lawyers said he had "learnt the results of the DNA test... [and] the scientific conclusions indicate that he is the biological father of Mrs Delphine Boël".The lawyers said the 85-year-old had decided to halt the legal battle, which had dragged on since 2013, and he now "accepts Delphine Boël becomes his fourth child".Her mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, has claimed the two had an affair between 1966 and 1984 when he was still Prince Albert of Liège.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51275007
- Philippe or Filip (French: Philippe Léopold Louis Marie, Dutch: Filip Leopold Lodewijk Maria, German: Philipp Leopold Ludwig Maria; born 15 April 1960) is King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne on 21 July 2013, following his father's abdication. He is the eldest child of King Albert II, whom he succeeded upon Albert's abdication for health reasons, and Queen Paola. He married Countess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz (now Queen Mathilde), with whom he has four children. King Philippe's elder daughter, Princess Elisabeth, is first in the line of succession.Philippe married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, daughter of a Walloon Count of Belgian noble family and female line descendant of Polish noble families such as the Princes Sapieha and Counts Komorowski, on 4 December 1999 in Brussels, in a civil ceremony at the Brussels Town Hall and a religious ceremony at the Cathedral of Saint Michel and Saint Gudule in Brussels. They have four children.On 6 August 1993, the government named Philippe as honorary chairman of the Belgian Foreign Trade Board (BFTB). He succeeded his father, who had been honorary chairman of the BFTB since 1962. On 3 May 2003, Philippe was appointed honorary chairman of the board of the Foreign Trade Agency, replacing the BFTB.In this capacity, Philippe has headed more than 60 economic missions. Upon his accession as seventh King of the Belgians, this role was taken over by his sister Princess Astrid.
  • 正在英國南威爾斯寄宿學校就讀的比利時王儲伊利沙白公主，周五前往布魯塞爾王宮出席自己十八歲生日的慶祝活動。該國三大電視頻道均會直播典禮，紀念標誌着伊利沙白成年後可直接繼位而不須攝政的重大時刻。伊利沙白擁有兩弟一妹，與父母居住在拉肯皇家城堡；她平日喜愛打網球和溜冰。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191026/00180_035.html
- Princess Astrid of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este (born 5 June 1962), is the second child and only daughter of King Albert II and Queen Paola, and younger sister to the current Belgian monarch, King Philippe. She is married to Prince Lorenz of Belgium, head of the Austria-Este branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, and is fifth in line of succession to the Belgian throne.Princess Astrid was born one day before her father's 28th birthday at the Château de Belvédère, near Laeken, and was named after her late paternal grandmother, Astrid of Sweden, the popular first wife of King Leopold III. Her godparents were her uncle Fabrizio, Prince Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau, 7th Duke di Guardia Lombarda, and her aunt Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg.

    - Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant (Dutch: Elisabeth Theresia Maria Helena; French: Élisabeth Thérèse Marie Hélène; born 25 October 2001), is the heir apparent to the Belgian throne. The eldest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde, she acquired her position after her grandfather King Albert II abdicated in favour of her father on 21 July 2013.

    • 比利時王室周三宣布，王儲伊利沙白公主下月底將從英國威爾斯的大西洋書院預科畢業。暑假過後，她會追隨父親國王菲利普足迹，在八月底進入位於布魯塞爾的埃爾森博恩皇家軍校受訓一年。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200523/00180_019.html


    nobles
    - Ligne is one of the oldest Belgian noble families, dating back to the eleventh century. The family's name comes from the village in which it originated, between Ath and Tournai.The lords of Ligne belonged to the entourage of the Count of Hainaut at the time of the Crusades.[2] With the battle of Bouvines in 1214, they were described as "great name and men of honour" by the chroniclers of the time.Their progressive rise in the nobility began as barons in the twelfth century, counts of Fauquemberg and princes of Épinoy in the sixteenth century, then princes of Amblise in 1608.[1] The family became Imperial counts on 18 December 1544, then Lamoral I received from Emperor Rudolf II the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire as Prince de Ligne on 20 March 1601,[1] for all of his agnatic descendants, both male and female. Compensation for loss of the Imperial County of Ligne (Fagnolles, since that barony had become seat of the county in 1789) as a result of the Peace of Lunéville consisted of substitution of the secularized Imperial abbey of Edelstetten, with an individual vote guaranteed in the Imperial College of Princes in 1803.[1] That principality was, however, sold to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy on 22 May 1804, before the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire, of which Edelstetten had been a constituent Imperial state, in 1806. The style of Highness was confirmed for all members of extant branches of the family on 31 May 1923, and the titles of Prince d'Amblise and Prince d'Epinoy recognized for the head of the house on 22 October of the same year by the Belgian Crown. There have been cadet branches of this house: Barbançon, Barbançon-Arenberg, Moy, Ham and Arenberg, La Trémoïlle.

    • He married, secondly, Princess Alyette Isabelle Odile Marie de Croÿ, daughter of Prince Rodolphe de Croÿ, and Odile de Bailleul, on 23 January 1976. they had two sons:[3]
      • HH Prince Edouard Lamoral Rodolphe de Ligne (b. Paris, 1976) who married civilly on 2 September 2009 and religiously on 5 September 2009, Italian actress Isabella Orsini (1974).[4] They have two children:
        • HH Princess Althea Isabelle Sophie de Ligne de la Trémoïlle
        • HH Princess Athénaïs Allegra Isabella de Ligne de la Trémoïlle
      • HH Prince Charles Joseph Malcolm de Ligne (b. Paris, 1980) who married Ran Li [5] on 20 November 2010.[6] They had a son:
        • HH Prince Amadeo Joseph Gabriel de Ligne (b. Paris, 2012)
    •  http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170924/00178_028.html據悉，比利時利涅家族，是比利時最古老、最有名望的貴族之一。該家族成員從古羅馬帝國時期便獲得利涅王子或利涅公主頭銜，但未獲王權。比利時於一八三○年脫離荷蘭統治，成立比利時王國，當年沒有選擇利涅家族的成員出任國王，而是另選薩克森科堡和哥特家族的成員任國王，因此利涅家族與現今的比利時皇室沒有關係。惠州三十三歲女子李然早年到法國巴黎留學時，認識了一名比利時王子，兩人交往一年半後於一○年共諧連理，兩年後誕下愛情結晶。而李然亦成為比利時首位華裔的女貴族，據傳正在歐洲某著名品牌任職管理層。據報道，李然出生於一九八四年三月，其父為惠州當地政府官員。二○○六年，李然在北京語言大學取得經濟學學位後，即前往法國巴黎深造，先後修讀法語、市場行銷、奢侈品行銷等課程。

    • coat of arms - red backward slash against yellow background

    - http://www.france24.com/en/20170807-belgian-prince-risks-allowance-cut-over-chinese-contacts  Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel is taking action that could cut Prince Laurent's allowance after the tearaway younger brother of King Philippe met Chinese officials without official consent, government sources said Monday. Prince Laurent, 53, was photographed wearing a military uniform last month while attending the 90th anniversary of the Chinese army at Beijing's embassy in Brussels -- a photo he himself tweeted. Michel, who met with the king earlier Monday, "announced he would launch a sanction procedure" against Prince Laurent which could lead to a reduction in his annual allowance of 308,000 euros ($363,000), a government source said. Royal family members are required to obtain consent from the Belgian government for any meetings with foreign dignitaries, something the source said the prince had not received.

    • 比利時國王菲利普的弟弟勞倫特王子，被指於早前在未經該國政府同意下，身穿整套海軍軍服前往中國駐布魯塞爾大使館，出席解放軍建軍節活動。比利時總理米歇爾因此削減勞倫特王子的養老金，勞倫特隨即委託律師致函米歇爾，指控政府侵犯其人權。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171203/00180_016.html

    Government
    - ministry of the brussels capital region http://www.brussels.irisnet.be/about-the-region/the-government-of-the-region

    • www.brusselsinvestexport.be, http://fr.metrotime.be/2014/11/07/service-public-regional-de-bruxelles/suivez-le-brussels-young-exporters-program-et-devenez-un-specialiste-de-lexportation/
    • www.brussels-architects.be

    - Department of Economy, Science and Innovation http://www.ewi-vlaanderen.be/en/ewi/about-us/about-us
    - enterprise flanders http://www.agentschapondernemen.be/

    • www.designvlaanderen.be
    - wallonia export-investment agency
    - Wallonie-Bruxelles Design/Mode www.wbdm.be, a governmental agency for the promotion of design and fashion, which aims to increase the international reputation of designers from Wallonia and Brussels

    antwerp
    - [tr berg] was the richest city in the world in 1570 due to trade along river schelde. Map of waterway created in 1486. Spanish and portuguese purchase copper and silver mined in southern germany and transport them to india and afruca where they exchange for spices, ivory and slaves. Engkush cloth, flemish embroidery and german leather goods were traded here. City itself exports luxury products such as glass, gems and wallpapers

    奥伊彭Eupen (German (pronounced [ˈʔɔʏpn̩]) and French (pronounced [øpɛn]), previously known as Néau in French), is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine. First mentioned in 1213 as belonging to the Duchy of Limburg, possession of Eupen passed to Brabant, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and France before being given in 1815 to Prussia, which became part of the new German Empire in 1871. In 1919, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium.German remains the official language in Eupen, and the city serves as the capital for Belgium's German-speaking Community. The city has a small university, the Autonome Hochschule in der deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft, offering bachelor's degrees in Education and Nursing. In 2010, Eupen's association football team, K.A.S. Eupen, became the first club from the German-speaking Community to play in the Belgian Pro League.
    - Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles V granted Eupen the privilege to conduct two markets per year in 1544. In 1555, both Brabant and Limburg were passed to the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs. Ten years later, Protestantism was mentioned for the first time in the town. In 1582, during the Dutch Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs, rebels burnt Eupen but did not take control of it. Bubonic plague reached Eupen in 1635, with devastating consequences. Eupen obtained its own court of law in 1648, and in 1674 received city rights, giving it greater recognition and autonomy. Six years later, textile manufacture was introduced to the city. In 1713, with the Treaty of Utrecht, Brabant and Limburg were returned to the Austrian Habsburgs. Revolutionary France took the city in 1794, incorporating it into the Département Ourthe, préfecture Liège and sous-préfecture Malmedy. Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Eupen became part of the Prussian Rhine Province. All Prussian possessions became part of the German Empire in 1870, while Eupen itself enjoyed its popularity as a spa town.After the First World War, the 1919 Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium. The effect led to the formation of National Socialist groups in Eupen. From 1938 the Vesdre Dam was constructed (completed in 1950), creating Lake Eupen. In 1940, the German Third Reich invaded Belgium; in an attempt to reverse Versailles, Eupen and Malmedy were annexed to Germany. In September 1944, American forces reached Eupen which became a centre of fierce fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. In 1949, the left tower of the St Nikolaus Church burnt down. The city centre was affected by flooding in 1953. Eupen merged with the municipality of Kettenis in 1976, amidst protest from that town.In 1980, following a state reform ten years earlier, the German-Speaking Community of Belgium was established and Eupen was named as its capital.
    - Rhenish Carnival occurring around Rosenmontag
    - people

    Grimbergen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣrɪmbɛrɣə(n)]) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, 10 km north of the capital Brussels. It comprises the towns of Beigem, Grimbergen, Humbeek and Strombeek-Bever. Grimbergen is in the Dutch language area of Belgium. The French-speaking minority is represented by four members on the 30-seat local council. Grimbergen is mostly known for its Norbertine abbey and the beer once brewed there. Grimbergen's proximity to Brussels makes it a residential town for commuting.In Roman times, several important roads passed near the territory of present Grimbergen. A fort was built in the 8th century at the strategic point where the road crossed the river Zenne. The local lord soon acquired a large piece of territory in this area, extending to the rivers Scheldt, Rupel, and Dender.In the 12th century the name of the hamlet was Grentberghis, which came from the Old Dutch Grientbergen,meaning mounds of coarse sand. A community of Augustinian monks had already tried to settle here a century earlier during the reign of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine, but it is only in the early 12th century that their religious community prospered. Under the leadership of Norbert of Xanten, the Norbertine monks built the Grimbergen Abbey here in 1128, founding a beer brewery. A few years later, the animosity between the powerful Grimbergen family and their then infant overlord Godfrey III of Leuven precipitated the Wars of Grimbergen. The unrest caused the destruction of the local castle by the Duke of Brabant, the move of the ruling Grimbergen lord to nearby Ninove, and the parceling of his territory. The city's coat of arms dates from that period. At the beginning of the 14th century, half of the territory became part of the estate of the House of Nassau. Like everywhere else in Flanders, the Wars of Religion of the end of the 16th century caused widespread destruction. In 1752, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, who had received the land from her consort William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau, ceded the barony to the Prince of Berghes, who owned the other half, thereby reuniting the original land of Grimbergen as a single, but short-lived, princedom.The feudal regime and the power of the lords came to an abrupt end under the French Regime in 1794. The clerical powers of the abbey were abrogated a couple of year later until a few years after the Belgian Revolution of 1830.


    Knokke (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈknɔkə]) is a town in the municipality of Knokke-Heist, which is located in the province of West Flanders in Flanders, Belgium. Originally a vacation haven for the city folk of Brussels in the early 19th century, artists such as James Ensor, Alfred Verwee and others started to frequent the small hamlet to paint its beautiful vistas. The artists rented a small miller's cottage and founded the Cercle des Artistes in 1880. It gradually became a resort town with upscale clientele, restaurants and shops. St. George's Anglican Church serves the English-speaking community. Nowadays Knokke is well known for its beaches and for the dike system to which it owes its origins. The largest of Belgium's ten casinos, Knokke Casino, is located on a seaside promenade and is open 20 hours a day.

    Mechelen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɛxələ(n)], French: Malines, traditional English name: Mechlin[n 1]) is a city and municipality in the province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium. The municipality comprises the city of Mechelen proper, some quarters at its outskirts, the hamlets of Nekkerspoel (adjacent) and Battel (a few kilometers away), as well as the villages of Walem, Heffen, Leest, Hombeek, and Muizen. The Dyle (Dutch: Dijle) flows through the city, hence it is often referred to as the Dijlestad ("City on the river Dijle").Mechelen is one of Flanders' prominent cities of historical art, with Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, and Leuven. It was notably a centre for artistic production during the Northern Renaissance, when painters, printmakers, illuminators and composers of polyphony were attracted by patrons such as Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria and Hieronymus van Busleyden.
    - there is a Statue of Neptune in Mechelen. The statue is also called Vadderik (lazy fat man). It is part of a water fountain erected in 1718. It was made by Frans Langhemans, a sculptor from Mechelen, at the behest of the city council. The inscription reads SPQM or Senatus Populusque Mechliensis (the council and population of Mechlin).
    - added by me - name of town similar to magellan?

    mons
    - When Julius Caesar arrived in the region in the 1st century BC, the region was settled by the Nervii, a Belgian tribe. A castrum was built in Roman (Belgica) times, giving the settlement its Latin name Castrilocus; the name was later changed into Montes for the mountain on which the castrum was built. In the 7th century, Saint Ghislain and two of his disciples built an oratoryor chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul near the Mons hill, at a place called Ursidongus, now known as Saint-Ghislain. Soon after, Saint Waltrude (in French Sainte Waudru), daughter of one of Clotaire II’s intendants, came to the oratory and was proclaimed a saint upon her death in 688. She was canonized in 1039.
    - The Doudou is the name of a week-long series of festivities or Ducasse, which originates from the 14th century and takes place every year on Trinity Sunday. Highlights include the Lumeçon fight, where Saint George confronts the dragon. The fight lasts for about half an hour, accompanied by the rhythmic "Doudou" music. 


    Wallonia
    - https://www.ft.com/content/515e1d14-8bdd-11e6-8cb7-e7ada1d123b1 the objections in Belgium’s Wallonia assembly — one of at least four parliaments in the country with a veto over the deal — have emerged as a chief stumbling block. The saga serves as a reminder of the tortuous route to ratification for any post-Brexit trade deal between the EU and Britain. Amid extensive efforts by the Belgian government and EU powers to shore up the Canada deal, the latest attempt to secure support for the pact in the regional assembly of Wallonia met a cold response. 

    • http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21709060-tiny-region-belgium-opposes-trade-reasons-are-hard-understand-wallonia
    • http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/belgium-reaches-accord-to-allow-signing-of-eu-canada-trade-deal In holding up the deal, Wallonia, which accounts for less than 1 percent of the EU’s population, cited concerns about the impact on employment and consumer standards. One particular worry was the accord’s provisions for an investor arbitration system, which include protections for overseas companies.

    Association/Institution
    - international
    • The Centrist Democrat International is a Christian Democrat political international. Until 2001 it was known as the Christian Democrat International (CDI) and before that the Christian Democrat and People's Parties International (until 1999) (this earlier name is, since October 2000,[1] still sometimes used colloquially). It was formed in 1961 in Santiago, Chile as the Christian Democrat World Union, building on the legacy of other Christian Democrat internationals[4] who tried to create a Christian-inspired third way[5] alternative to the socialist internationals; in 1982 it was renamed for the first time to Christian Democrat International.[6] The name officially changed due to the participation of groups of various faiths.[7] It is the global international political group dedicated to the promotion of Christian democracy. Although it gathers parties from around the globe, its members are drawn principally from Europe and Latin America. Some of them are also members of the International Democrat Union (IDU), although the CDI is closer to the political centre and more communitarian than the IDU. The CDI's European wing is the European People's Party, currently the largest European political party. Its Latin American equivalent is the Christian Democrat Organization of America. The Democratic Party of the United States of America maintains links with CDI through the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. A youth organisation of the CDI is currently being established under the name of Youth of the Centrist Democrat International (YCDI).
    • Dec 1925: The first international gathering of Catholic-Christian democratic parties takes place in Paris and they establish the Secrétariat International des Partis Démocratiques d'Inspiration Chrétienne (SIPDIC).[8] Member parties were from Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania.
    •  1961: The World Union of Christian Democrats (WUCD) is established in Santiago.
    • 1982: The WUCD changes its name to the Christian Democrat International (CDI).[12]
    • 1999: The CDI changes its name to the Centrist Democrat International due to an increasing membership of non-Christian political parties. Since October 2000, some have also informally referred to the CDI as the Christian Democrat and People's Parties International.
    • union of international associations http://www.uia.org/
    • Wallonia Brussels International (WBI) www.wbi.be, agency in charge of Wallonia Brussels' international relations
    • The International Crisis Group (ICG; also simply known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1995 that carries out field research on violent conflict and advances policies to prevent, mitigate or resolve conflict. It advocates policies directly with governments, multilateral organisations and other political actors as well as the media. The ICG garnered controversy in April 2013 as it awarded Myanmar President Thein Sein its "In Pursuit of Peace Award", with the award ceremony coinciding with the publication of a Human Rights Watch report of ethnic cleansing by Sein's administration.
    • employee michael korvig detained by china
    • 前港督彭定康於二○○四年任歐委會對外事務員時，曾任該組織聯合主席。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20181214/00176_007.html
      - The Benelux Union (Dutch: Benelux Unie; French: Union Benelux) is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.[6] The name Benelux is formed from joining the first two or three letters of each country's name – Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg – and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944). It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic and cultural grouping of the three countries. In 1951, these countries joined West Germany, France, and Italy to form the European Coal and Steel Community, a predecessor of the European Economic Community (EEC) and today's European Union (EU). The main institutions of the Union are the Committee of Ministers, the Benelux Parliament, the Council of the Union and the Secretariat-General, while the Benelux Organization for Intellectual Property and the Benelux Court of Justice cover the same territory but are not part of the Union. The Benelux General Secretariat is located in Brussels. It is the central administrative pillar of the Benelux Union. It handles the secretariat of the Committee of Ministers, the Council of Economic Union and the various committees and working parties. Moreover, it ensures[clarification needed] the registry[clarification needed] of the Benelux Court of Justice.

      • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2016/11/18/a15-1118.pdf 香港梅州 聯會會長余鵬春等日前於會所接待歐洲荷 比盧崇正總會會長張挺宏率領的代表團一 行，賓主暢敘鄉誼，就明年香港梅州聯會 主辦的客家人的盛事──世界客屬懇親大 會交流意見。
      • scmp supplement 18nov16
      - thinktank

      • Bruegel is a European think tank specializing in economics. 
      • The Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies is an interfaculty interdisciplinary research centre of the Humanities and Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium. It carries out and supports interdisciplinary research on topics related to globalization, global governance processes and multilateralism, and has been recognized as a KU Leuven Centre of Excellence.

      - europe
      • http://martenscentre.eu/
      - trade
      • foreign trade association http://www.fta-eu.org/ or http://www.fta-intl.org/content/mission?
      • Cooperate with hkpc to organise cleaner production partnership event in nov15
      •  http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1928052/free-trade-between-china-and-eu-will-increase-combined-gdp-much 

      • Flanders Investment & Trade www.flandersinvestmentandtrade.com, www.vai.be
      • The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) monitors compliance with the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA Agreement) in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, enabling those States to participate in the Internal Market of the European Union. ESA is independent of the States and safeguards the rights of individuals and undertakings under the EEA Agreement, ensuring free movement, fair competition and control of state aid. http://www.eftasurv.int/about-the-authority/mission-and-values/
      - aerospace

      • The von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) is a non-profit educational and scientific organization which specializes in three specific fields: aeronautics and aerospace, environment and applied fluid dynamics, turbomachinery and propulsion. Founded in 1956, it is located in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.
      • https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3006908/science-body-vki-reassesses-its-ties-chinese-developer-guam An aerospace institute in Brussels is investigating exchanges and collaboration between its scientists and a major Chinese defence contractor, but management at the Belgium-based non-profit did not reveal details. Professor Herman Deconinck, deputy director of the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI), said it was looking into staff members’ relations with China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (Casic), a state-owned developer of hypersonic weapons that include the DF-26 missile in service with the People’s Liberation Army. “The VKI has scientific exchanges with many colleagues, including Chinese. These interactions can be categorised as typical interactions between scientists,” Deconinck said in an interview last week, referring to the VKI’s collaboration with Casic.

      - Fashion/textile
      • international wool textile organisation http://www.iwto.org/
      • Confederation of National Associations of Tanners and Dressers of the European Community http://www.euroleather.com/cotance.html
      • Flanders Fashion Institute www.ffi.be
      - city mobility
      • International Association of public transport www.uitp.org, global urban mobility index http://www.uitp.org/new-study-future-urban-mobility

      - food

      • http://www.fooddrinkeurope.eu/ FoodDrinkEurope represents the European food and drink industry. It aims to promote the industry's interests to European and international institutions, contributing to a framework addressing, inter alia, food safety and science, nutrition and health, environmental sustainability and competitiveness.
      - wine and spirits
      • Founded in 1960, the CEEV – Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins is the representative professional body of the EU industry and trade in Wines.
      - jewellery

      • international gemological institute http://www.igiworldwide.com/
      • diamond producers association

      - fragrance

      • European Flavour Association http://www.effa.eu/en
      - transport

      • international association of public transport http://www.uitp.org/, recruiting staff (event manager, etc) thru classified post, hk body c/o MTR
      • european business aviation association http://www.ebaa.org/
      • European Transport Safety Council is a NGO based in Brussels whose goal is to reduce the numbers of deaths and injuries in transport in Europe.
      - ethanol

      • http://www.epure.org European Renewable Ethanol Association
      - energy


      - construction

      • world steel association http://www.worldsteel.org/
      - design
      • http://www.belgianspirit.be/ Belgian Spirit is an initiative of the 3 Belgian Regions of Brussels, Flanders & Wallonia, set up in 2011. Belgian Spirit promotes Belgian architecture, design and fashion in Asia through Business of Design Week (BoDW) in Hong Kong and other events. Tales of Heroes exhibition http://www.belgianspirit.be/files/Pressinformation_BelgianSpirit-TalesOfHeroes.pdf
      • Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures (WBA) www.wbarchitectures.be, a service designed to promote the development and international recognition of architects working in Wallonia and Brussels
      • www.madbrussels.be - fashion and design center, project set up by the city of Brussels and the Brussels Capital Region with support from EU
      • www.flandersdc.be, flemish organsiation for entrepreneurial creativity
      • www.designplatformvlaanderen.be, initiated by 5 partner organisations 
      - fintech

      • SWIFT 
      • http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1801730/fast-pickup-swift-know-your-customer-registry Swift, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, will not say exactly how many banks have signed up to its know-your-customer, or KYC, registry launched at the start of the year, but it told the South China Morning Post that "several hundred" banks from 109 countries and jurisdictions have joined. The pickup has been fast for the Belgium-based organisation, whose main business is processing the bulk of global financial information and transactions between banks. But the KYC registry, which is designed to help banks better understand other banks that they are dealing with, has a lot of work ahead of it. "Getting 7,000 banks to agree to one way of doing things is always going to be a challenge," said Andy Burlison, the director of compliance services for Swift in the region. That is especially true if you are asking penetrating questions about who really owns the institutions. The registry is one of many products coming on to the burgeoning financial regulatory and compliance market and part of a global effort to stamp out money laundering and terrorist financing. As the world's biggest facilitator of interbank communications, knowing your customer means knowing more about the banks that you do business with.
      • china
      •  china daily 9may19 swift to intensify localisation efforts in china

      - paper

      • Confederation of European Paper Industries http://www.cepi.org/ 
      - toy

      • Toy Industries of Europe http://www.tietoy.org/ 

      - education

      • Wallonia Brussels Campus www.studyinbelgium.be, agency for promoting higher education of Wallonia-Brussels abroad
      •  Education International (EI) is a global union federation (GUF) of teachers' trade unionsconsisting of 401 member organisations in 172 countries and territories that represents over 30 million education personnel from pre-school through university. Founded in 1992.
      - horticulture
      •  The International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) is the world's leading independent organization of horticultural scientists.[1][2][3] Its aim is "to promote and encourage research and education in all branches of horticultural science and to facilitate cooperation and knowledge transfer on a global scale through its symposia and congresses (International Horticultural Congress),[4] publications and scientific structure." Membership is open to all interested researchers, educators, students and horticultural industry professionals. The society dates from 1864, and was formally constituted in 1959. It is based in Leuven, Belgium, and is a founding member of the Global Horticultural Initiative.

      - environment

      • bureau of international recycling 


      - philanthropy

      • european venture philanthropy association http://evpa.eu.com/about-us/
      - public services

      • The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) brings together trade unions from across Europe. We influence the policies and decisions of employers, governments and European institutions that affect public service workers, their families and communities. We mobilise for action and change and are committed to achieving another, social Europe.http://www.epsu.org/
      - journalists
      - labour/trade union

      • european trade union confederation http://www.etuc.org/, letter to FT dd 28oct14 on TTIP http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1c06a35c-5b92-11e4-a674-00144feab7de.html#axzz3HPDoFpMm TTIP will not be approved unless Investor State Disoute Settlement (ISDS) is dropped
      - volunteer

      • People from hk branch attended iftar dinner organised by pearl institute


      - religion
      • http://www.schumanfoundation.eu/ (christian democrats)
      • http://www.eurojewcong.org/about-us/about-the-european-jewish-congress.html first in london, then paris, now headquartered in brussels


      Company
      - The Federal Holding and Investment Company was created on 1 November 2006, a result of the merger between the Federal Participation Company (Federale Participatiemaatschappij / Société Fédérale de Participations) and the Federal Investment Company (Federale Investeringsmaatschappij / Société Fédérale d'Investissement). The Federal Investment Company (FIC) acquired the Federal Holding Company (FHC) in accordance with the law of 26 August 2006 on the merger of the Federal Investment Company and the Federal Participation Company.
      - Le Groupe Bruxelles Lambert est une société de portefeuille et société de services financiers1 belge investie dans divers secteurs au sein de sociétés leaders sur leur marché. Elle est ainsi principalement investie dans les secteurs de l'extraction et de la production minières (à travers la société Imerys, n°1 mondial du secteur et dont elle est actionnaire majoritaire), de la production de matériaux de construction (avec Lafarge Holcim), de la prestations de conseil, de contrôle et de certification (avec SGS), de la production et de la distribution d'articles de sports (avec Adidas) et de la production de vins et de spiritueux (avec Pernod Ricard). Ces dernières années, la société s'est désinvestie en grande partie du secteur de l'énergie, et notamment de Total et Engie. Elle a pour actionnaire majoritaire (à 50 %) la société de portefeuille suisse Pargesa, elle-même propriété de la société néerlandaise Parjointco. Celle-ci est contrôlée indirectement à parité par l'homme d'affaires et milliardaire belge Albert Frère (via la société Agesca Nederland, la CNP et le Groupe Frère-Bourgeois) et par la famille canadienne Desmarais, également milliardaire (via Power Corporation du Canada)2. De 1975 à 1998, le Groupe Bruxelles-Lambert est propriétaire de la Banque Bruxelles Lambert3.
      -  Denys is a multidisciplinary group specialised in water, energy, mobility, architecture, restoration and special techniques. www.denys.com
      - financial
      • KBC Group N.V. is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Ireland, Central Europe and South-East Asia. Besides retail banking, insurance and asset management activities (in collaboration with daughter companies KBC Insurance NV and KBC Asset Management NV), KBC is active in, among other things, European debt capital markets, domestic cash equity markets and in the field of corporate banking, private banking, leasing, factoring, reinsurance, private equity and project and trade finance in Belgium, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere (mainly in Europe). KBC is an acronym for Kredietbank ABB Insurance CERA Bank (CEntrale RAiffeisenkas).The parent company, KBC Group N.V., is one of the major companies and the second largest bancassurer in Belgium.The Catholic Volksbank van Leuven, founded in 1889, was one of the earliest predecessors of the KBC Bank. Another predecessor was the Bremer Vorschussverein, founded in 1889 and changed later into Bankverein Bremen AG. In 1935, the banks Algemeene Bankvereeniging and Volksbank van Leuvenmerged with the Bank voor Handel en Nijverheid to create the Kredietbank. The Kredietbank would be the only Belgian financial institution under Flemish control which would survive the financial crisis of the great depression of the 1930s. Fernand Collin, who became president in 1938, conceived the business strategy which would lead to the growth of the bank. He defined the Kredietbank as an independent bank with a decidedly Flemish character which would be an instrument to further Flemish economic growth.During World War II, the bank would be able to expand its activities and grow its deposits from the Flemish middle class. After the war, because of the economic recovery, the Kredietbank, now the third largest bank in Belgium, was able to increase the number of operating branches in Flanders. The postwar growth strategy of the bank emphasized foreign expansion and the development of portfolio-management services for investors. The bank expanded into Luxembourg in 1949 with the Kredietbank S.A. Luxembourgeoise and into Wallonia with the establishment of the Crédit Général de Belgique in 1961.The Kredietbank also expanded into Belgian Congo. It established a branch in Léopoldville in 1952. Then in 1954 it acquired Banque Congolaise pour l’Industrie, le Commerce, et l’Agriculture and renamed it Kredietbank-Congo,[2] Ultimately it had four branches, one each in Léopoldville, Bukavu, Elizabethville and Stanleyville. Due the situation emerging after the independence of Belgian Congo in 1960, the bank discontinued its Congolese operations in 1966.In the sixties, driven by increasing competition, the bank worked on the expansion of its branch network and improvement of consumer services. In 1966, the bank began building a foreign-correspondent network and the establishment of foreign branches in a number of countries. In 1970, together with six other European institutions, Kredietbank established the Inter-Alpha Group of Banks. The Kredietbank N.V. Bruxelles acquired the main part of the shares from the Bankverein Bremen AG since 1982. The branch in Bremen was renamed to Kredietbank-Bankverein AG in 1990. In 1998, the Kredietbank merged with two financial institutions originating from the Boerenbond (Vlaanderen) [nl] (E: Belgian Catholic Farmers Association), ABB-insurance (Assurances du Boerenbond Belge) and CERA (Centrale Raiffeisenkas) Bank, to form the 'KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company'. Since then, the group has significantly expanded its activities, chiefly in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2005, KBC set another milestone by merging with its parent company, Almanij, and changing its name to KBC Groep NV [nl].
      • 2010年7月7日大和證券集團旗下投資銀行，斥資10億美元收購比聯集團包括亞洲股票衍生工具在內的衍生工具及環球可換股。
      - architecture

      • laboratory for explorative architecture and design http://www.l-e-a-d.pro/, known for its golden moon project in Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Wonderland 2012 in Victoria Park
      • Conix Architects http://conixrdbm.com/, renovated the Atomium in Brussels, the Belgium EU pavilion for the World Expo in Shanghai
      •  archipelago baev http://www.baev.be
      • responsible for the project of china-belgium technology center in smart valley
        - engineering
        • Hamon
        - media
        • roularta media group http://www.roularta.be/nl/home/RC-1184686276805.html, to cooperate with CCI http://www.ccieurope.com/Default.aspx?ID=252&PID=1334&Action=1&NewsId=150
        • TL Magazine http://issuu.com/tl-mag/docs/tlmag21_book_sp_bd_pour_issuu__1_/3?e=0/8301303 (design)
        • http://www.demainilferajour.com/ (scenography)
        • Mediahuis is a Belgian newspaper publishing and broadcast media company. It publishes De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad, Gazet van Antwerpen, Het Belang van Limburg, De Telegraaf, NRC Handelsblad, NRC Next, several Dutch regional newspapers, the job recruitment platform Jobat, the free magazine Jet and classified magazines/folders Gotcha, Zimmo, Vroom and InMemoriam. The headquarters of Mediahuis is in Antwerp, where the editors of Het Nieuwsblad and Gazet van Antwerpen are edited. De Standaard is produced in Brussels and Het Belang van Limburg in Hasselt. Mediahuis was founded in 2013 as a joint venture of two Flemish media corporations Corelio and Concentra. They entered into a collaboration around their paper and digital publishing activities. Corelio took 62% of the shares, Concentra the remaining 38%. In 2015 Mediahuis acquired the Dutch NRC Media group. In 2017 it acquired the Dutch Telegraaf Media Groep. On 30 April 2019 Mediahuis agreed to acquire Independent News & Media for 145.6 million euro.
        - corporate communications

        • http://www.hoet-hoet.eu/

        - food

        • Belgian Meat Office was founded in 2003 under the umbrella of the VLAM, Flanders’ Agricultural Marketing Board, and it coordinates the promotion of pork and beef export. On the one hand by offering export support and on the other through B2B promotion. https://www.belgianmeat.com/en/about-belgian-meat-office
        • http://www.belgium-direct.com/#!about-us/cxwc 
        • galler chocolatier
        • www.belgianporkgroup.com
        - metal

        • Nyrstar
        • Europe's biggest zinc producer (ft 8dec15) 
        - maritime
        • The Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB) is one of the oldest Antwerp ship-owners. It is controlled by the Saverys family who also own major stakes in the Exmar and Euronav groups. 
          CMB was founded in 1895 under the name 'Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo (CBMC). At the request of Leopold II of Belgium and with support from British investors, a maritime connection was opened with Congo Free State. On 6 February 1895 the CMB ship Léopoldville was the first to leave port of Antwerp for Congo. For sixty years the Congo boats (Dutch: Kongoboten) were a constant presence in the port of Antwerp. In 1930 CBMC acquired Lloyd Royal Belge (de), another Belgian shipowner. The name of the new company became CMB, and new lines were opened towards America and the Far East. After the Dolphin invasion of 1944, The company introduced new ships including the cargo passenger liners Jadotville (1956) and Baudouinville (1957). However in 1961 it sold both these liners to P&O who renamed them Chitral and Cathay and placed them in service in the Far East. In 1960 the company Armement Deppe was acquired, and between 1975 and 1982 gradually also the tramp ship company Bocimar. The company entered the dry bulk trade in 1962 and continues to be a major dry bulk operator under its Bocimar banner. In 1975, the CMB group took a minority share in the dry bulk tramping company, Bocimar, which was increased to a majority share in 1982. In 1988, CMB bought Hessenatie, a large general cargo and container handling company in Antwerp.[1] In July 1991 the Société Générale de Belgique, until then the main shareholder of the CMB, sold its shares to the holding Almabo and his shipping society Exmar, led by Marc Saverys. In 1995, half of CMB Transport was sold to Safmarine, a South African shipping company. In 1999, with the sale of the African network of AMI, CMB group's participation in the liner sector ceased and they focussed on the bulk carrier sector. In the same year, CMB gained full control of Euronav, an operator of crude oil tankers.
          •  http://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/antwerp-maritime-group-cmb-pioneers-environmentally-friendly-shipping-with-latest-hydrogen-powere-vessel/
        - transport solutions

        • http://www.sany.be/
        - water treatment
        • The Luxembourg company Apateq has historically focused on the oilfield market, designing turn-key oil-water separation systems and compact wastewater treatment plants for “demanding applications”. For the Öland application, pre-treated industrial wastewater flowing into the plant comes from the local poultry slaughterhouse. For the primary black water treatment, a specially configured ultrafiltration system is used, which can filter residual concentrations of oils and fats (up to 20 mg / l) from the raw water without blocking it. The high bacterial content of the raw water can also be reliably eliminated using the selected treatment stage. Due to the geographical proximity to the Baltic Sea, the remaining raw water streams are very saline well water with larger concentrations of divalent iron and 2-valent manganese (up to a maximum of 4 mg / l). The well water is pre-treated in a first step by oxidation with potassium permanganate. Effluent from the two pre-treated water streams is mixed in a basin and sent to the joint final cleaning station, which is configured in four identical streets, consisting of ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis.    https://www.aquatechtrade.com/news/aquatech-news/self-adapting-water-plant/
        - apparel
        • C&A is an international chain of fast-fashion retail clothing stores, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany. It has retail stores in many European countries. It serves only the largest markets of Asia, North America and South America. C&A's brands include Angelo Litrico, Canda, Clockhouse, Here+There, Palomino, Rodeo (ski and snowboard clothes), Westbury, Yessica, Yessica Pure, and Your Sixth Sense. The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company Cofra Holding AG. The company's success has led the family to be among the wealthiest in the Netherlands.[1] The Brenninkmeijer family, however, live in Geneva and Zug, Switzerland.The company was founded by brothers Clemens and August Brenninkmeijer in 1841 as a Dutch textile company, taking its company name from their initials. In 1906 Clemens' son, Bernard Joseph, started discounting in Amsterdam (Rekenen in Centen, in plaats van Procenten) and by 1910 there were ten stores in the Netherlands. These were from the German Brenninkmeyer family that traded in linen and textiles since the 17th century from its hometown of Mettingen, Germany. For many years, C&A retail clothing stores were a major presence in town centres throughout the United Kingdom. C&A also opened stores in a number of out-of-town locations, such as its store at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in the West Midlands, which opened in November 1989. The company's strategy of selling budget clothes from high-rent city-centre retail stores made it vulnerable to a new breed of competitors operating in cheaper, out-of-town locations, including Matalan and the rapidly expanding clothing operations of supermarket food chains such as Tesco and Asda, and to expanding high street names such as H&M, Zara, and Topshop. 

        - lobby
        • Fipra International Ltd. offers public affairs consulting services. The company provides public policy issue identification, public affairs plan development, political and regulatory message development, policy development monitoring and feedback, and consumer policy services. Its practice areas include aerospace, automotive, biotechnology, chemicals, construction, consumer products, campaigns, competition, national legislation, and political and regulatory research and intelligence. Fipra International Ltd. was founded in 2000 and is based in Brussels, Belgium.https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=225854172
        - translation
        • http://www.telelingua.com/en/
        education institutions
        - L'École de la Cambre, more known as La Cambre, is a renowned architecture and visual artsschool founded by Henry van de Velde in Brussels in 1926. It was founded as the Institut supérieur des Arts décoratifs, and became known as "La Cambre" after the Abbey of la Cambre in Ixelles in which premises it was established. In 1980, La Cambre was divided into two separate institutions, the École nationale supérieure des Arts visuels (ENSAV), and the Institut supérieur d'Architecture de la Communauté française de Belgique (ISACF). Both institutions belong to the French Community of Belgium. ENSAV is still housed at the abbey while ISACF headquarters is on Flagey Square, on the opposite side of the Ixelles Ponds. Famous alumni include Berthe Dubail, Olivier Strebelle and Anthony Vaccarello.


        People
        - Elio Di Rupo (French: [eljo d(i) ʁypo]; born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian social-democratic politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014 and headed the Di Rupo Government. Di Rupo was the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979,[2] and the country's first socialist Prime Minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. He was also Belgium's first Prime Minister of non-Belgian descent, and the world's second openly gay head of government in modern times.Di Rupo is the son of two Italian immigrants. His father was born in San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore. Elio, who was born in the small town of Morlanwelz, in Wallonia, was the only one of the children to be born in Belgium; his brothers and sisters were all born in Italy. When he was one year old, his father died in a car crash and his mother was unable to raise all seven children. Due to the poor financial state of his family, three of his brothers were raised in a nearby orphanage. When he was 12, he attended boarding school. Due to medical issues, Di Rupo had to re-do his first year of high school twice, but eventually excelled in science at the end of his high school years. This led him to pursue a degree in chemistry at the University of Mons, where he eventually obtained a PhD in Chemistry, after being a part-time lecturer at Leeds University as well.
        - Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel (French pronunciation: ​[ʃaʁl miʃɛl]; Dutch: [ˈtʃɑrl(s) mɪˈʃɛl]; born 21 December 1975) is a Belgianpolitician who is the current Prime Minister of Belgium. He is the son of Louis Michel, also a prominent politician. Charles Michel was the leader of the francophone liberal party Mouvement Réformateur (MR) since February 2011 until becoming Prime Minister. Michel is the youngest Belgian Prime Minister since 1845.Michel was born in Namur, Wallonia, the son of Martine Simone Yolande Ghislaine Pierre and Louis Michel. Michel started his political career aged 16 when he joined the Young Liberals of Jodoigne (Jeunes Réformateurs Libéraux de Jodoigne); his father Louis Michel was mayor of Jodoigne since 1983. In 1994, at the age of 18, Charles Michel was elected provincial councillor in Walloon Brabant. He graduated in law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Amsterdam in 1998, after which he became lawyer at the Brussels Bar. He is fluent in Dutch and English in addition to his native French.
        - Albert, Baron Frère (born 4 February 1926) is a Belgian businessman and the richest man in Belgium. At the age of 30, he started investing in Belgian steel factories and by the end of the 1970s he practically controlled the whole steel industry in the region of Charleroi. He foresaw the coming steel crisis of the late 1970s and sold his enterprises to the Belgian state after merging them with the competing steel firm Cockerill to create Cockerill-Sambre. Frère used the proceeds from this sale to build an investment empire around the Swiss holding company Pargesa which he founded with the Canadian investor Paul Desmarais. Pargesa took over the Belgian holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert in 1982 and over the year added significant stakes in such wide ranging Belgian companies as Petrofina, Royale Belge Insurance, Compagnie Luxembourgoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and Tractebel. He actively promoted international consolidation of the sectors in which he was involved, selling Banque Bruxelles Lambert to ING Group, Royale Belge to AXA, Tractebel to Suez, Petrofina to Total S.A., and RTL to Bertelsmann.
        -  The Saverys family is one of the oldest shipping related families in Belgium. It controls the CMB group, Bocimar, Delphis, ASL Aviation, Euronav and Exmar companies. The Saverys family started in shipping during the time of Bernard Boel (1798-1872), a carpenter from the Antwerpen South shipyard, who founded the Boel shipyard at Temse on the Schelde river. They worked closely with the Cigrang family (the current owners of Cobelfret group) and together formed a dry cargo tramping company called Bocimar (BOel, CIgrang,MARitime). Philippe Saverys (Felix's son) would later marry the grand daughter of Bernard Boel.
        • only english and dutch version in wikipedia
        - Pierre Culliford (French: [kylifɔʁ]; 25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgiancartoonist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic strips The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in which the Smurfs first appeared
        - jews

        • Sophie Wilmès[needs IPA] (born January 15, 1975) is a Belgian politician [1] who currently serves as Prime Minister of Belgium. She is the first female head of government of Belgium. Wilmes’ mother is Ashkenazi Jewish and lost several relatives in the Holocaust, Philippe Markiewicz, the president of the Consistoire organization of Belgian Jewry, confirmed Monday to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.



        Diplomatic missions
        - http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News/1.2163883

        Tax haven
        - http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1593236/belgium-17b-euro-tax-haven-frances-richest-entrepreneurs-report, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b21d8f1e-7461-11e2-b323-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3DSwHJKXl
        - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/11/belgiums-tax-breaks-for-multinationals-ruled-illegal-state-aid The European commission has ruled that the brewer ABInBev, BP and 33 other multinationals have received sweetheart tax deals from Belgium so generous as to amount to illegal state aid. It has ordered Belgium to revise its tax settlements with the companies concerned, charging them combined additional taxes of €700m (£523m).  At the heart of the ruling was an objection to Belgium’s so-called “excess profit” tax regime, which assumes that multinationals should be entitled to tax breaks because they have economies of scale. In practice it allows some international groups to reduce their Belgian tax burden by up to 90%, the commission found. “In essence, the scheme allowed companies to pay substantially less tax, simply because they are multinational and could benefit from alleged synergies,” said Margrethe Vestager, Europe’s competition commissioner. “National tax authorities cannot give any company, however large or powerful, an unfair competitive advantage compared to others.”

        zoo
        - antwerp zoo is the oldest animal park in the country, and one of the oldest in the world, established on 21 July 1843.Since its foundation, the park has been controlled by De Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen, a society originally called Société Royale de Zoologie d'Anvers (The Antwerp Royal Society for Zoology). This also became the popular nickname for the zoo, "De Zoologie". The initial objective was to encourage zoologicaland botanical sciences. Its first director was renowned zoologist and botanist Jacques Kets (10 November 1785 – 1 February 1865). He accepted this position on one condition: a museum had to be built to house his nature-historical collections. This building was inaugurated in 1844 by H.M. King Leopold I. The predicate Royal was added to the name of the society on that occasion.In its early years, the size of the park grew from less than 1.59 hectares (3.9 acres) to more than 10.5 hectares (26 acres). Notable buildings from that period are the Egyptian temple (1856) and the antelope building (1861) in Oriental style, which now houses the okapis.Together with its sister park Planckendael (located on the grounds of Planckendael castle in the village district of Muizen, in Mechelen), Antwerp Zoo houses over 7,000 animals of about 950 species. 

        • note that in a picture hket 12sep19 a stone sculpture (in a gate?) shows the relief of a smiling face (resemble carvings in se asia temples)


        language
        - The Belgian PM —by convention— should speak the two main languages. Because French speakers don’t have a good track record of learning Flemish (Dutch), but the Flemings have a good track record of learning French, the PMs of Belgium end up being Flemings more than not.
        Of course, Di Rupo broke that trend (spoke French and Italian; son of Italian immigrants; and middling Dutch). His successor is a Walloon who is fluent in both Dutch and French. So he gets a pass. On the whole, I’d say that both languages have their importance. The Fleming portion of Belgium is the wealthier and slightly more dominant half, but they do a better job of learning French (as mentioned) due to the huge French speaking population just across the border, so that language gets a great deal of pull as well.https://www.quora.com/In-what-language-does-the-Belgian-officials-government-and-MP-communicate-Do-they-prefer-one-language-over-another
        - https://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-live-in-Belgium-without-speaking-Dutch-and-French
        - french

        • French language eyes post-Brexit return http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2018-03/19/content_35874191.htm
        • https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-Belgians-speak-French-Have-they-always-spoken-this-language Dutch is actually the native language of slightly over half of Belgium, though there are much fewer second-language Dutch speakers. And, since Brussels, the capital, is predominantly French-speaking, and Belgium finds itself in the crossroads of Europe’s heart, French is the língua franca. Very similar to the situation in Luxembourg actually where French is not the most common native language, but ends up being the língua franca and language of prestige. The process began in the 18th century when Wallonians (south of Flanders) and Brussels’ élites began speaking French on top of their native Germanic language(s). This continued in the 19th century, especially after the Belgian revolution, which established the official language as French. The Dutch speakers learned French and some Wallonians became monolingually francophone. This process stopped in the middle of the 20th century when Dutch speakers stopped having their language marginalized by the state. But by then the country became effectively bilingual, with the balance of influence favouring French. Soon though, Brussels became the capital of the new European Union, and many french speakers from France moved to Belgium as well, thereby reinforcing the Francophone population there even without it being the sole official language of Belgium anymore.


        belgians (nationality)
        - The Belgae were definitely Indo-Europeans. Julius Caesar describes them in his account of the conquest of Gaul, “De Bello Gallico,” as part of an alliance of tribes living in the northern area of Gallia/Gaul. So they were Gauls at least in the geographical sense, and their area was called Gallia Belgica by the Romans. The question whether they were Gauls (Celtae) or “Germani,” or a mix of both, in an ethnographic-linguistic sense, is a bit more complicated, and interpretations vary with the translations of the source material (mainly Caesar and Strabo). There is even a theory that their original language was neither Celtic or Germanic, but an older Indo-European language strain.https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Belgae-a-different-branch-of-Indo-Europeans-distinct-from-Gauls-Celts-and-Teutons-Suebians-Germans-Or-were-they-non-Indo-Europeans

        history
        - country name

        • https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-English-language-use-the-word-Belgium-It-sounds-Latin-like-stadium-or-medium-No-other-modern-language-opted-for-anything-similar It is Latin, it means “place of the Belgae” who were an ancient people who lived there. In fact some people think that the Belgae were the original Vikings, rather than the Danes. The modern name of the Belgae is België, which is in fact the name of the country in one of its indigenous languages, Flemish.
        - https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Belgium-invented-if-the-two-nations-that-comprise-it-never-consented What is now Belgium used to be a confederation of Celtic Tribes which the Romans called the Belgae. After having been conquered by the Romans, we were part of the Frankish Empire, Lower Lorraine, Burgandy, Spain, Austria, France, and the Netherlands.It is the revolt of 1830 that gave us our independence from the Netherlands. While there were Flemish and French speaking Belgians, most were Catholic were the Dutch were Protestant.Dutch was no longer an important language but French was the language of diplomacy and international trade. The Dutch wanted to limit the use of French which would make it more difficult to trade at the international level. There were so many Flemish dialects that the people resented having to speak “correct Dutch”. The dwindling but yet still substantial riches from the Netherlands were also a thorn in the flesh of the Belgians.
        - The Belgian Revolution (French: Révolution belge, Dutch: Belgische Revolutie/opstand/omwenteling, German: Belgische Revolution) was the conflict which led to the secession of the southern provinces (mainly the former Southern Netherlands) from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium. The people of the south were mainly Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons. Both peoples were traditionally Roman Catholic as contrasted with Dutch Protestants in the north. Many outspoken liberals regarded King William I's rule as despotic. There were high levels of unemployment and industrial unrest among the working classes. On 25 August 1830, riots erupted in Brussels and shops were looted. Theatregoers who had just watched a nationalistic romanticist opera joined the mob. Uprisings followed elsewhere in the country. Factories were occupied and machinery destroyed. Order was restored briefly after William committed troops to the Southern Provinces but rioting continued and leadership was taken up by radicals, who started talking of secession. Dutch units saw the mass desertion of recruits from the southern provinces and pulled out. The States-General in Brussels voted in favour of secession and declared independence. In the aftermath, a National Congress was assembled. King William refrained from future military action and appealed to the Great Powers. The resulting 1830 London Conference of major European powers recognized Belgian independence. Following the installation of Leopold I as "King of the Belgians" in 1831, King William made a belated military attempt to reconquer Belgium and restore his position through a military campaign. This "Ten Days' Campaign" failed because of French military intervention. Not until 1839 did the Dutch accept the decision of the London conference and Belgian independence by signing the Treaty of London.

        Netherlands
        - http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20160101/00180_021.html 比利時近日就計劃以極和平的方式，將國土轉讓予荷蘭。究其原因，可能是一具無頭屍體促成其事。維塞（Vise）是比利時列日市外的一個小市鎮，坐落於劃分比荷邊境的默茲河。惟維塞轄下地區拉納耶，有一塊面積僅約十五個足球場般大小的地區，只能從荷蘭以陸路進入，是毒販及性罪犯的天堂。

        India
        - Dit jaar (2017) vieren we de 70ste verjaardag van de bilaterale banden tussen België en India. Ons land was één van de eerste landen waarmee India samenwerkingsakkoorden aanging. Sedertdien volgden verschillende Staatsbezoeken en economische handelsmissies tussen de twee landen.https://www.facebook.com/BeMonarchie/photos/pcb.1955233081406989/1955232708073693/


        China
        - visit by chinese leaders
        • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2015-06/29/content_21137046.htm China and Belgium agreed to deals worth 18 billion euros on Monday covering finance, telecommunications, technology and education, following the first meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels. The two also agreed to combine China's competitiveness in equipment manufacturing and Belgian advantage in science and technology to develop the market in Africa, moving a step closer to Li's ambition to tap overseas demand and fuel domestic economy by carrying out global industrial capacity cooperation. According to the agreements, China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd will help upgrade local telecommunications infrastructure and China will set up another two Confucius schools in Belgium, which already has four. IZP Technologies Group, a leading big data processing company which is recently licensed to set card organization in Europe, will issue cross-border bank cards in Belgium, with which businesspeople can save transaction cost by trading directly between RMB and euro without going through US dollar.
        • 当地时间6月2日下午，中国总理李克强在布鲁塞尔公爵夫人谷国宾馆同比利时首相米歇尔举行会谈，李克强表示，比利时是欧盟总部所在地，也是欧盟重要成员，良好中比关系有助于中欧关系发展，欧盟应当履行《中国加入世界贸易组织议定书》第15条义务，冀比利时发挥积极作用，推动欧盟履约，为中欧关系健康稳定发展创造条件。会谈前，米歇尔在公爵夫人谷国宾馆广场为李克强举行隆重欢迎仪式。米歇尔称，比方愿同中方深化经贸投资、科技、创新、基础设施、农业、旅游等领域合作，并愿为欧盟履约发挥积极作用。会谈后，李克强和米歇尔共同见证多份双边合作文件的签署，涉及基建、质检、物流、港口、5G（第五代移动通信系统）、物联网、现代製造业、“一带一路”等合作文件的签署。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170604/PDF/a4_screen.pdf
        • 4月9日上午，國務院總理李克強在布魯塞爾埃格蒙宮會見比利時首相米歇爾。李克強表示，中方願擴大從比利時進口適合中國市場需求、高附加值的產品，歡迎比方參加第二屆中國國際進口博覽會。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190410/PDF/a6_screen.pdf
        - visit by belgian leaders
        • http://m.chinadaily.com.cn/en/2015-06/24/content_21084047.htm The king arrived in China Saturday night for a week-long state visit at Xi's invitation. It is the king's first state visit overseas since he was crowned in July 2013. Xi said China stands ready to maintain close high-level interactions, retain the sound political trust and ensure the general direction of friendship between the two nations. The president made a state visit to Belgium in the spring of 2014, when the two sides decided to upgrade their relations to an all-round partnership of friendship and cooperation. On Tuesday, Xi suggested the two sides boost cooperation in high-end manufacturing, biomedicine, environmental technology and sustainable development. The Chinese government supports capable Chinese companies investing in Belgium and also welcomes Belgian companies to explore the Chinese market, said the president. Xi called for closer China-Belgium cooperation on finance and interconnectivity, hoping that Belgium will back Chinese enterprises' participation in the ambitious Investment Plan for Europe as well as the construction of main corridors in Europe. He proposed the two governments strengthen policy coordination to facilitate people-to-people exchanges.

        - Belgian Chinese Chamber of Commerce http://www.bcecc.be/
        • http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201503/0323/HZ13323CCXX.pdf Bernard Dewit said that Asia in AIIB should be world
        - tech
        • history of cooperation  http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/10/16/a07-1016.pdf
        • china belgium technology centre
        •  Le China-Belgium Technological Center s’implante dans le parc scientifique Einstein à proximité immédiate de la ville de Louvain-La-Neuve. Le projet est piloté par la société JuXing International qui désire implanter en Belgique une plateforme destinée à des entreprises chinoises souhaitant développer des projets novateurs en collaboration, notamment, avec l’Université Catholique de Louvain. Le centre accueillera cinq pôles d’activité : biotechnologie, énergies vertes, optoélectronique (interaction de phénomènes optiques et électroniques), télécommunication et un incubateur d’entreprises. Le China-Belgium Technology Center (CBTC) a été officiellement lancé le lundi 20 juin 2016. La première phase du chantier débutera en octobre 2016 et les premiers bâtiments sont attendus pour fin 2018. Le coût de ce centre d’affaires, dédié à l’accueil d’entreprises high-tech et comprenant plusieurs incubateurs, s’élève à 200 millions d’euros. United Investment Group (UIG), entreprise de la province de Hubei, est actionnaire majoritaire du CBTC (90 %). Juxing International Technology Investment (Chine) détient les 10 % restants.http://www.louvainlaneuve.eu

          - nuclear
          • http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2015/06/24/b05-0624.pdf在中國國家主席習近平和比利時國王菲利普共同見證下，中國廣核集團總經理張善明與SARENS集團首席執行官Wim Sarens在北京簽署了戰略合作協議。雙方將在核能、可再生能源以及核電站退役等業務領域開展合作。
          - pork

          • http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2016-03/10/content_37983461.htm A Belgian pork producer has been given approval to export an estimated 56,000 tonnes a year to China, which Belgium's agriculture minister says will give a major boost to the country's farming sector. Belgian leading pork company Noordvlees Van Gool, along with other local pork companies welcomed on Tuesday Chinese Ambassador Qu Xing and Belgian Agriculture Minister Willy Borsus in Kalmthout, near the northwest Belgian port of Antwerp, to mark an approval of pork exports to China. During the signing ceremony, several Belgian enterprises have been granted licenses of export to China. Borsus said the pigmeat sector is very important in Belgium, yet facing a number of challenges in the field of planning, the environment and manure processing, that's why "this agreement will give major boost to the entire agriculture sector". "I am convinced that today's signature predicts results in other fields, such as the export of beef or poultry meat, for which advanced negotiations between our two countries are ongoing," he added. While Ambassador Qu Xing said that allowing import of Belgian pork to China made by the food safety authorities of two countries marked a new outcome of China-Belgium cooperation, adding China is bound to be a big consumer of agricultural products. Qu said that pork has been an important source of animal protein in China and he hoped that Belgian pork business in China would achieve greater success in coming years.
          - hairy crabs

          • 比利時西北部城市布魯日的運河，就有大閘蟹聚集，在河床上挖洞，令水路系統受到嚴重破壞，令當地政府十分頭痛。當局於是設陷阱捕撈這些大閘蟹。比利時正考慮將它們運回中國。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190620/00178_013.html


          - alibaba

          • https://www.facebook.com/MR.CharlesMichel/photos/a.238504792872593.62016.238067622916310/1138922626164134/?type=3&theaterM. Jack Ma, Président d’Alibaba Group, m’a confirmé l’ouverture d’un bureau en Belgique. C’est une formidable porte d’entrée pour les producteurs et PME belges pour avoir accès au marché chinois.
            De heer Jack Ma, CEO van Alibaba Group, heeft me bevestigd dat er een bureau opent in België. Het is een geweldige kans voor de Belgische producenten en kmo’s om toegang te krijgen tot de Chinese markt.
          - tourism
          • eu-china light bridge (tourism year project)
          - medical

          • 中國科學院上海藥物研究所13日發布消息稱，由該所和比利時佛朗德生物技術研究院發起成立的「中國─比利時單細胞分析技術合作實驗室」日前在上海揭牌。該實驗室將利用雙方優勢，努力實現資源、技術、人才和項目的網絡式共享。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190414/PDF/a3_screen.pdf

          - culture

          • 4月 8日， 在比利時 列日省于 伊 市，一 名女士在 「 中 國 文 化 周」活 動上學習 製 作 餛 飩。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/04/10/a19-0410.pdf
          •  After a two-month soft opening, the country's first flagship shop based on the classic Belgian cartoon character Tintin celebrated its official grand opening on Monday in the presence of diplomats from Belgium and France and fans.The ceremony was attended by Zhang Yifei, the 67-year-old daughter of Chang Chong-chen, also known as Zhang Chongren, who collaborated on The Blue Lotus. Set in Shanghai, it was the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series that Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, also known by his pen name Herge, created in 1929. Zhang Yifei presented a historical archive capturing the days when The Blue Lotus was created in 1934.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2019-04/16/content_37458703.htm
          - catholicism

          • 中國官方承認的天主教愛國會，其主席房興耀日前率團到訪比利時，拜訪天主教南懷仁研究中心，期間並在當地教堂參與多場彌撒「共祭」儀式，被指是有意釋出中國教會願意融入普世教會的善意。這次訪問亦是中國與梵蒂岡去年九月簽署協議後，中方派出的最高層級天主教訪問團。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190730/00178_015.html


          - 比利時布魯塞爾 的中國文化中心

          • 據中通社報道：設在比利時布魯塞爾 的中國文化中心於當地時間16日揭牌。正在當地訪問的 中國國務院副總理劉延東與比利時副首相兼外交大臣雷 恩代爾共同為該中心揭牌。 在揭牌儀式上，金髮紅裙的西方女孩跳起了中國傳 統的秧歌舞，熱情四溢；來自中國的二胡演奏家與比利 時大提琴演奏家合奏《梁祝》，悠揚而委婉。 當天，布魯塞爾中國文化中心還舉辦展覽，展出上 世紀30年代中國雕塑家張充仁與比利時漫畫家埃爾熱共 同創作的 「丁丁歷險記」中的《藍蓮花》故事。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20150918/PDF/a6_screen.pdf
          - investors from china
          • cosco
          • anbang - shareholder of delta lloyd and fidea insurance
          • pingan and fosun are shareholders of ageas
          • hedgren is owned by chinese
          - belgian in china

          • Father Ferdinand Verbiest (9 October 1623 – 28 January 1688) was a Flemish Jesuitmissionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tieltin the County of Flanders (now part ofBelgium).[2] He is known as Nan Huairen(南懷仁) in Chinese. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of theKangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy. He then corrected the Chinese calendar and was later asked to rebuild and re-equip the Beijing Ancient Observatory, being given the role of Head of the Mathematical Board and Director of the Observatory.
          • http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-06/17/content_25747307.htmAs one of the earliest foreign businesspeople to venture into China after its opening-up, 68-year-old Belgian business strategist Gilbert van Kerckhove has not only witnessed, but also played an important part in, the country's tremendous transformation over the years. Originally from Ghent in Belgium, where he got a master's degree in electronic engineering in 1973, Van Kerckhove has spent a big part of his life working for multinationals in foreign countries, including Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, Thailand and Myanmar. Despite the discouragement and doubts expressed by his family and friends, who viewed China as a poor and unsafe country back then, Van Kerckhove accepted the task of setting up a China office for the Belgian company ACEC in Beijing in 1980. In his early years in China, he was involved in many major construction projects, such as Line 3 of Shanghai's subway and Jinmao Tower, one of the landmark skyscrapers in Shanghai, when he was the regional director of French company Alstom's East China branch.
          • http://en.safea.gov.cn/2013-09/29/content_17003566.htm Van Kerckhove calls himself a "lobbyist" for Beijing and a "bridge" between the Chinese administration and foreign businesses for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.As the only foreigner among the committee members of the Specialist Working Group for the Beijing 12th Five Year Plan, van Kerckhove has used his position to counsel improvements to the city's urban traffic and environment, "because you feel part of this country somehow, and you'd like to contribute".
          - education

          • http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2017-01/11/content_27919197.htm A prestigious Belgian university is launching a series of online campaigns in 2017 to attract moreChinese students, a senior staff member from the university told Xinhua. Frederik De Decker, director of the International Relations Office of Ghent University, says thatthe university decided to bring itself closer to Chinese applicants by launching a recruitmentwebsite in Chinese and making good use of popular Chinese social media.




          Hong Kong
          - representation of Flanders http://www.flanderstrade.com/site/internetEN.nsf/ContactUsVlev?readform&id=215
          - http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1560110/belgian-man-now-stateless-hong-kong-after-losing-citizenship?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=outbrain&utm_campaign=OutbrainCampaign-Generic-Desktop
          - belgium hong kong society http://www.bhks.be/
          - aviation
          •  A mystery group of Hong Kong investors is backing a new long-haul budget carrier, betting on the rise of low-cost travel despite the wafer-thin margins of the airline industry. Air Belgium chief executive Niky Terzakis gave little away about his Hong Kong backers, who control a 49 per cent stake, saying only that they were not “airline people”. “Everyone keeps focusing on [their identities]”, he complained. He added that details of the investors would be in the “public record very soon” and the majority shareholding was “in Belgium and Europe”. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2136703/mystery-hong-kong-investors-bet-low-cost-start-carrier-air
          • nouvelle connexion entre la Belgique et la Chine. A partir d’aujourd’hui, Cathay Pacific reliera en effet directement Bruxelles à Hong Kong. http://press.fb.emailing.belgium.be/c144/e277594/h6946f/t0/s0/index.html
          - sps

          • 比利時食品安全機關日前透露，直至前年年底止，當地食品公司Veviba曾向包括香港在內的至少三個國家或地區輸出修改了雪藏日期的肉類，比利時當局斥這是嚴重的詐騙行為。食物環境衞生署食物安全中心表示，已即時與比利時當局跟進，據其提供的資料，無證據顯示有問題肉類製品曾入口本港或在市面出售，中心已與本港主要冷藏肉類進口商和零售商聯絡，暫時得悉未有受影響產品曾在本港出售。法新社日前報道，比利時當局周一指，至二○一六年底止，當地食品公司Veviba曾向香港、科特迪瓦和科索沃輸出肉類，當中包括一些雪藏日期被竄改的肉類製品。農業部長迪卡姆譴責Veviba在輸出肉類期間，使用「黑手黨一般的做法」，而比利時食品安全機關的報告透露，已知會三個受影響的地方。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20180321/00176_064.html
          - ipos in hk

          • 外電引述消息指，全球最大啤酒廠商安海斯布希英博（Anheuser-Busch InBev，ABI）擬最快月內就分拆亞洲業務在港上市提交申請，今年夏季掛牌，目標集資額逾50億美元（約390億港元），或成年內最大型新股。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20190410/00202_018.html

          - investors from hk
          • delvaux (handbag) was acquired by hk investor
          - investors in hk

          • Anglo-Eastern Ship Management is a leading, independent provider of ship management
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