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...Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the top Catholic cleric in Hong Kong, is the first senior church official from the Chinese territory to visit Beijing since 1994....
...Current bishop of Hong Kong Stephen Chow, who was appointed last year, has not taken any public stance on the security law....
...Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, the top Catholic cleric in Hong Kong, will be the first senior church official from the Chinese territory to visit Beijing since 1994....
...One litmus test was the decision by community groups to show Revolution of Our Times, an award-winning film about the protest movement by Hong Kong film-maker Kiwi Chow....
...The stock price tumble has been a blow to chair Hui Ka Yan, who was once China’s richest man, and has seen his fortune plunge from almost $40bn in July 2020 to $11.2bn, according to Bloomberg data....
...“We don’t really have a lot of time,” said Matthew Chow, an analyst at S&P, pointing to debts coming due in March and April....
...A self-described feminist, she nonetheless outraged progressives earlier in her career by defending Woody Allen against sexual abuse allegations, accepting a role as a transgender man and another that had...
...Lee Cheuk-yan, a veteran pro-democracy activist and vigil organiser imprisoned over his role in the 2019 protests, told friends he would send smoke signals with a lit cigarette from his jail cell....
...Anticipated for years because of its vast debts, a restructuring at Evergrande would still be a striking turnround for a company whose rapid growth made its chair and founder Hui Ka Yan China’s richest man...
...Allen & Overy has hired Dario de Martino as an M&A partner in New York. He joins from Morrison & Foerster....
...Then Hong Kong-based conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, parent company of the Rosewood Hotel Group, bought the resort in 2016....
...inflation climate is worsening with the combination of trade friction and sanctions leading to spots of higher prices, for oil, metals and at some stage other goods that are hit with tariffs,” said Koon Chow...
...Blackstone has hired Yan Yan as a managing director in its real estate team in Asia. Yan joins from Soho China, where she held senior roles in the prime office developer....
...been kind to investors with more subdued oil prices and a relatively pedestrian set of comments from Fed’s Yellen, helping pull down core market yields and boost risk appetite,” says UBP strategist Koon Chow...
...Reporting by Michael Hunter, Robin Wigglesworth, Anjli Raval and Kate Allen...
...A gnarled but slender Qing dynasty scholar’s staff incised with an excerpt of a Yan dynasty poem (HK$80,000-100,000) is in a similar vein, here complemented by the thorny, twisting branches of a Congolese...
...Smart reads Tycoon rising Asia has a new second-richest man: Hui Ka Yan, the chairman of Evergrande....
...The Explosion Chronicles, by Yan Lianke, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99 An absurdist satire of breakneck urbanisation by one of China’s leading dissident writers....
...Urbanisation and rising disposable income will drive it, too, though “companies have to change their branding strategy and product offering to capture the incremental market growth”, says HSBC analyst Lina Yan...
...Hong Kong from China did not decline sharply over the past six months, the store traffic declined by more than 30 per cent as more visitors came from lower-tier cities with less spending power,” says Lina Yan...
...Such is the festive spirit of the event that a crew from Hong Kong Disneyland dressed in costumes from the movie Mulan, while others gave their teams pun-laden names such as “Allen & Oar-very”....
...The Four Books, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 Banned in mainland China, Yan’s novel is set in a “re-education camp” in northern China between...
...… Frog, by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 Blending social realism with the bizarre, China’s most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature tackles his country...
...(These early passages, marked by earthy imagery and somewhat cruel humour, have the flavour of Mo Yan’s tales of rural China.)...
...La Table des Anges in the 9th arrondissement is the combination of the culinary skills of Yan Duranceau in the basement and the relaxed bonhomie of Jacques-Henri Strauss, as he surveys his dining room from...
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