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...From the whimsical to the comedic, the controversial to the bland, someone somewhere has given the plant in front of you a name in the hope that it will make you want it even more....
...Standard internal deal documents might be unsatisfactory, particularly if companies are now encouraged to keep board minutes and pitchbooks intentionally bland....
...Additional reporting by Ben Bland in Hong Kong...
...Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate activist who is advising the president-elect on deregulation, is a significant investor in Freeport-McMoRan, which runs one of the world’s biggest gold and copper mines...
...Carl Pei, co-founder and chief executive of OnePlus, maker of high specification smartphones, says that while Shenzhen is a good place to develop hardware, it is inconveniently far from the consumer markets...
...Ben Bland is the FT’s South China correspondent and a former Indonesia correspondent Photographs by Zeng Han and Muhammad Fadli A brief guide to industrial robots What is an industrial robot?...
...At first sight, Lewis seems outrageously normal, with the bland looks that work well on telly....
...The rest of the concert was comparatively bland, not in content, but delivery....
...“This shows how keen the US government is to win more deals for its companies in Asia,” said Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra....
...I suspect Morris chose Carl Maria von Weber’s clarinet and piano concertant exactly because it is formulaic....
...Carl Thayer, an expert on the South China Sea at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said such incidents amounted to a serious escalation and seemed to be part of a “new wave of assertiveness...
...Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnamese politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said that the arrest of such a prominent businessman would require political backing from the highest levels...
...Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnamese politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said: “Vietnam will struggle to take further steps toward global integration without cleaning up its state-owned...
...“I speculate that her success has rankled some powerful individuals who are not fans of Mr Sang,” says Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnamese politics at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra....
...Selections by Carl Wilkinson ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Are we ready for an early Hanks? Yes! / From Mr Richard Walker...
...The Childhood of Jesus, by JM Coetzee, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99, 288 pages A lost boy and the kindly man who cares for him are the central figures in Coetzee’s conjured world of Novilla, a bland place...
...But, as analysts like Carl Thayer at the Australian Defence Force Academy have noted, Vietnam’s government has been slowly moving from collective responsibility to a form of ministerial responsibility, albeit...
...A number of other fast food franchises such as Subway, Carl’s Jr and Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf have recently made their first forays into Vietnam and Fred Burke, a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Ho Chi Minh...
...is moving to further develop the rural market through a micro-insurance programme which, while not designed to generate much profit now, is aimed at establishing the foundations for future growth, says Carl...
...… Switching jobs Cross currents in the electrical retailing sector, where Comet has swiped Dixons’ airports business boss, Carl Cowling, to strengthen its management team....
...Carl Thayer, an expert on the South China Sea at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said that this latest incident represented an escalation in Chinese aggression toward Vietnam....
...However, Carl Thayer, a Vietnam watcher at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, says that reform-minded academics, scientists and journalists he met in December were demoralised and felt that...
...“The national assembly has been really outspoken,” said Carl Thayer, a Vietnam expert at the Australian Defence Force Academy, who added that public debate on government policy had been much more restrained...
...of these comments, ahead of the defence ministers’ meeting and an upcoming Southeast Asian leaders’ summit, suggests Vietnam has raised the profile of this issue to ensure that it won’t go away,” said Carl...
...The reporting of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post in the early 1970s on the illegal efforts of Nixon’s White House to destabilise the Democratic party remains its defining moment:...
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