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...Hui’s development of the Qingyuan academy aligned with the desire of Chinese president Xi Jinping — an avid football fan — to use the sport to energise the nation’s youth and to deepen its influence abroad...
...Previous targets of Chinese authorities’ ire, such as Alibaba’s Jack Ma and China Renaissance’s Bao Fan, have not been fully rehabilitated....
...An extended passage to the eerie tinkle of a celesta is another highlight in which Fan Chia-hsuan stress-tests joints and sinews, her limbs and spine twisting every which way like a life-sized lay figure...
...Xi, himself a fan of the sport, has vowed to make China a football world power, with ambitions to host and win a World Cup before 2050....
...One Beijing-based football fan, who goes by the nickname Menzhu, first spotted that CCTV was cutting broadcasts of fans during the France versus Denmark match on Sunday....
...After spending six years and HK$450mn (US$58mn) on science fiction epic Warriors of Future, Hong Kong film star and avowed Star Wars fan Louis Koo hoped it would capture the imaginations of China’s millions...
...Chen Long at Plenum, a Beijing-based research firm, says the trend is towards “zero-Covid in name only”....
...“Match-fixing will not drive progress in Chinese football,” Caixin quoted Chinese Football Association president Chen Xuyuan as saying in wake of the scandal. “This phenomenon cannot be tolerated.”...
...The start of the UK football season has highlighted the important community work carried out by many clubs and fan-led initiatives....
...Neither Alibaba nor Li’s agency, Meione, responded to requests for comment on Li’s situation, but his legion of fans expressed dismay on social media....
...Gold medallists like Gu and Chen are likely to see their endorsement portfolios balloon in coming weeks, with Forbes estimating that Chen had at least $1mn in guaranteed payouts leading up to Beijing....
...We’ve seen this shift supported by a new wave of young and exciting designers such as Feng Chen Wang, Ambush and Anouki. The style has become an instant and versatile statement-maker.”...
...When one fan gets too stalkery and invades her personal space, she stabs him in the head with a metal hairpin....
...(Side note: Kresus Labs’ US-based CTO seems to be a frustrated Queens Park Rangers FC fan.) 52) Tools For Humanity Tools For Humanity’s team are “creating digital tools based on proven ideas to help more...
...These past two-and-a-half weeks have held moments of genuine thrill and triumph, such as Nathan Chen‘s gold medal in men’s figure skating and the unlikely dominance of the Italian mixed doubles curling team...
...He courted Hong Kong tycoons as investors at card games and enlisted Chinese movie stars such as Fan Bingbing and Jackie Chan to help market his products....
...Shushu Chen, a lecturer in sport policy at the University of Birmingham, said the mainland had shown significant support for elite sport development in Hong Kong “I don’t think the Chinese government will...
...Nicola Moulton U Beauty The brainchild of Tina Chen Craig, who founded the blog-turned-influencer agency Bag Snob, U Beauty is one of the few brands to hold both Leaping Bunny and Positive Luxury certification...
...It’s well worth your time, especially if you are a fan....
...Lawton Chen, the club’s secretary, says: “Most change hands within or via the club. We know about almost every one for sale....
...But encounters with tech entrepreneurs including YouTube co-founder Steve Chen proved a powerful lure....
...At the opening session on Friday, Wang Chen, an NPC vice-chairman, said Hong Kong’s electoral system had “loopholes and deficiencies” that could allow “anti-China forces” to seize control of the city....
...Looking back over the year in gaming, I was reminded of something visionary game designer Jenova Chen said to me in an interview last year: “You don’t ask someone, ‘Do you watch movies?’...
...America is already the object of his affections, the land of Faye Dunaway and Otis Redding — but so too is his wealthy sweetheart, Yuan (Yo-Hsing Fan)....
...Chen and his peers ruminate on AI, technology, environmental collapse and other problems that used to be seen as the exclusive discursive domain of a western worldview....
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