Five things to know on September 6, 2023

In the northern part of Shanxi province, workers used an excavator to make a several-meter-long hole in the Great Wall of China to shorten their commute to work, CNN reports. A 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were detained in connection with the case.

According to CCTV, a broadcaster linked to the Chinese government and cited by foreign media, the services received a report of a breach in the Great Wall of China on August 24. The hole was created near the town of Yangqianhe in the north of Shanxi province. CCTV describes the damage to the wall as “irreversible”. Photos circulating on social media show that the hole is several meters wide.

READ ALSO: The Great Chinese “irreversibly” damaged. Two workers were detained

US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski received the “Person of the Year 2023” award from the Economic Forum in Karpacz. During his speech, he expressed gratitude to Poles for the help they provide to refugees from Ukraine.

The diplomat also emphasized that “democracy and complex market economies depend not only on the free and fair electionsbut also on the clarity of the law and the certainty that the law is above politics.

READ ALSO: US Ambassador Mark Brzezinski is the “Person of the Year” of the Economic Forum in Karpacz

One of the elements of the Law and Justice party’s election program is to improve the quality of meals in hospitals. But the current government had already announced more money and standards in this matter – after the inspections NIK and Sanitary and Epidemiological Station.

Meanwhile, the project on the requirements for nutrition in hospitals has been waiting for adoption and entry into force for a year and a half.

READ ALSO: PiS announces improvement in the quality of meals in hospitals

The Court of Appeal in Warsaw dismissed the Confederation’s complaint, filed after the ruling of the District Court in Warsaw – informed Piotr Rogowski, attorney-at-law of Agora, the publisher of “GW” and Michał Wawer, attorney-at-law of the Confederation.

The case concerned the statements of “Gazeta Wyborcza” about the Confederation’s health care program. On September 1, the District Court in Warsaw dismissed the Confederation’s lawsuit – it found that the article was of a journalistic nature and did not contain untruths.

These are among Poles’ favorite holiday destinations Türkiye, Greece and Egypt – according to the report “Foreign holidays of Poles 2023” of the Polish Chamber of Tourism. The peak season for Polish tourist trips – according to the report – falls in July and August.

As stated in the report, this year showed that the tourism market is developing, new organizers are appearing and the offer is expanding. It was assessed that the next season 2023/2024 looks equally, if not more, promising.

READ ALSO: Poles’ favorite holiday destinations

“For the last eight years…” – with these words, PiS politicians, many months after they took power in Poland in 2015, began listing the scandals that, according to them, broke out during the rule of the PO-PSL coalition. After two terms of the United Right government, we asked PiS politicians, including those who had just become number one on the electoral lists, to list the scandals that had occurred over the last eight years. The unanimous response was that there had been no scandals, so in order to refresh the memory of not only United Right politicians, we would like to remind you of some of the most important events that deserved to be called scandals. We will also show what actions the prosecutor’s office controlled by politicians from Zbigniew Ziobro in the lead. Some of the scandals of the ruling party were selected by the “Black and White” reporter, Dariusz Kubik.