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...Kwok is one of a growing number of practitioners turning our perceptions of food on their head....
...She launched with a show featuring paintings and sculptures by Hong Kong tattoo artist Yau Kwok Keung....
...Other 20th-century artists — notably Ben Enwonwu and Irma Stern — fared well and, increasingly, Africa’s artists are offered in the more general sales....
...The processes by which these dishes are created are probably mundane, but the results defy belief: sign me up for Ben Churchill’s outrageous olive-oil sponge cake that recalls a scouring pad....
...Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at HKU, has long warned the city needed to improve preparations for another wave of infections....
...“China has already made it abundantly clear that gambling is a vice through a series of anti-gambling edicts,” says Ben Lee, an Asian gaming expert at Igamix Management and Consulting....
...(His clients include Mukesh Ambani, Sam Zell and Raymond Kwok.) Recently, he has been trying to make the financial elite see the dangers of seeking to solve the problems of debt with more debt....
...Despite the familial disputes, the Kwoks remain more famous than infamous....
...“Hong Kong’s legal system is no longer truly independent,” says Mr Kwok. “This is just the beginning. Integration is accelerating.”...
...Jimmy Kwok, chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, another lobby group, said that while the shift from China to south-east Asia was already under way for products such as electronics, trade...
...The Kwoks Raymond Kwok (left) leads Sun Hung Kai Properties, which has emerged relatively unscathed after a period of turbulence....
...Kwok (not her real name) says she was promised an 8 per cent annual yield from a new lakeside development in Keswick, about an hour north of the city....
...Hong Kong’s biggest property developers are tycoons such as Li Ka-shing, Lee Shau-kee and the Kwok brothers, who exert a substantial degree of influence in Hong Kong’s undemocratic political system....
...The ousted lawmakers include veteran activist Leung Kwok-hung, better known as “Long Hair”, and Nathan Law, who became the youngest ever legislator in Hong Kong when he was elected in September at the age...
...Ben Kwong, a director at KGI Securities, said his company had not rented one of the floor’s 900 trading booths for more than a decade. “It’s just symbolic now,” Mr Kwong said....
...Woo Kwok-hing, a retired judge and an independent third candidate, won 21....
...South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s main English-language newspaper, found that Mr Tsang was backed by 47 per cent of the wider population, compared with 30 per cent for Ms Lam and 10 per cent for Woo Kwok-hing...
...Woo Kwok-hing, a former judge who is also a candidate in the chief executive selection process in March, said Hong Kong needed to be firmer in opposing Beijing’s interference....
...The other candidates are Carrie Lam, who was formerly Hong Kong’s number two official, Regina Ip, another former senior official, and Woo Kwok-hing, a former judge....
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...“We have taken a city-by-city approach up to now,” said Mr Kwok. “This funding round will allow us to grow internationally on a much grander scale.”...
...Dennis Kwok, a barrister and opposition legislator, hit back, saying that the NPC’s actions were so sweeping as to amount to “interference in Hong Kong legislation”....
...“We urge Leung and Yau to take back their insulting words and apologise formally to all Chinese people in the world,” said Lo Wai-kwok, a pro-establishment lawmaker....
...Last year Thomas Kwok, one of the city’s richest property tycoons, was jailed for five years for bribing one of its top officials....
...casino companies and the Macau government are wagering that the wider range of entertainment being developed, including a 5,000-seat theatre at Studio City that will host Madonna and local pop star Aaron Kwok...
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