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...Singapore has for decades prospered in no small measure due to its reputation as the “Switzerland of the east” — a safe and neutral haven for business in an at-times intractable part of the world....
...“The industry has totally changed,” Dunne says, with a touch of melancholy, when we meet for lunch at his local pub in south-west London....
...“There was no such thing as babysitters back then,” she reminisces. “So on Thursdays, when I didn’t attend school, I sometimes went to Léger’s studio. I was part of a magical world.”...
...If not for Oksana, he would have been entirely alone. “I’m telling you, and not as a joke, I have no options left,” he said. “I really don’t.”...
...Double, from C$500 JO For local colour: The Broadview Hotel 106 Broadview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4M 2G1 Rooms and suites: 58 Gym/spa: No. Eat and drink: The rooftop is a must for drinks and snacks....
...According to Cummings’s research, in the past two decades, adjusting for inflation, total betting on US horseracing from the general public decreased 63 per cent....
...Last week, the village children started to go to the local school for lessons again. They had been studying online for two weeks....
...It shows a man, one of the parents at the local primary school, being beaten by police in front of his eight-year-old daughter....
...This will act as an annexe to its building beside the O2 Arena, a design school with no workshops....
...In the capital, the London Flower School and McQueens both stage courses ranging from half-day sessions to fully fledged programmes for trainee florists....
...He refers to patina as if it were a rare precious metal....
...Housing, including gardens, accounts for just over 1 per cent. The idea that there is “no space” to build is a myth....
...Angelo Rossi, a 63-year-old who runs a tobacconist on a street just off the Colosseum, described business “as almost dead”. “There are no tourists at all at the moment,” he told me....
...There is no railing, so the ascent requires a bit of fortitude (“I’m not brave enough,” Rose’s husband laughed when I asked if he had been to the top)....
...Yuan Yang 63. Celltrion Sector: healthcare / HQ: Incheon, South Korea The company is developing an antiviral antibody treatment for Covid-19....
...local youth to learn to grow food, make furniture and study....
...Dyson has worked extensively on lightweight materials, leading several people to speculate the first vehicle may be substantially comprised of plastics rather than metals, something usually reserved for...
...Many local schools were diligent at taking measures; others, especially the private ones, simply complained and waited for the state to act....
...Francesca, who has run it for as long as I’ve been visiting the city, fills it with design classics and work by local, independent designers....
...“There was no interior fit-out, the lighting was just bulbs sticking out of the walls on bare flex. But it cost £360,000 for 40 flats.” Did that architecture emerge from necessity?...
...Raised by a grandfather in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), she graduated with a diploma in accounting from the local school of commerce....
...“We went this morning to less scaffolding than ever, and no mud, for the first time,” says the 48-year-old brightly. “It’s exciting to be here.”...
...Prouvé on the other hand worked with sheet steel and corrugated metal to make demountable houses for the French colonies and cheap and easily built schools for postwar reconstruction....
...On returning to Europe, Koolhaas, too, became a journalist, working for the Haagse Post and then briefly attending film school....
...Local politicians in Tower Hamlets went along for the ride....
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