Hints and tips:
...While some companies are delaying listing plans, others are taking lower valuations on the chin....
...“We’re not going to compete head-on with domestic players but will focus on cross-border business,” said David Chin, head of UBS’s investment bank in Asia-Pacific....
...Wang Ji After a car hit and killed his 20-year-old daughter, Chinese-born Wang Ji decided to set up a philanthropic fund in her name, the Wei Wei Wang Fund. Wang left China in 1993....
...Lee Wei Ling, daughter of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, dismissed her brother’s attempt to characterise the struggle as “private family matters”....
...“One important reason for many failed PPP projects is that local governments change the rules at will,” Ji Xinhua, an official at the Shanghai Municipal Finance Bureau, recently wrote....
...He was inspired, in part, by the 8th-century garden maker Wang Wei....
...Unsuk Chin’s 2009 work Šu (a word derived from an ancient Egyptian symbol for air) offered an intriguing counterpart....
...Ji Taiping, head of the city’s urban planning department, calls it “fast food” tourism....
...“Frankly, we have a very broad range of projections,” says Zou Ji of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy....
...The Violin Concerto of 2001 is one of Chin’s big works....
...The company’s true homage to Diaghilev probably lies in its commitment to creating new works, and the Chinese choreographer Shen Wei was one of many artists invited for the first time to Monte-Carlo this...
...Su Wei, director-general of the climate change department at China’s National Development and Reform Commission, told the FT last month that the country’s emissions would peak by 2050....
...Chin first heard the sheng, a wind instrument capable of organ-like clarity and sustain, as a young girl, but had overlooked its potential until a chance encounter with the specialist Wu Wei....
...Unsuk Chin’s Su, introduced the following evening, finds the Korean composer attempting to bridge two musical cultures....
...As far as he’s concerned, life in China is tough and you have to take it on the chin....
...Wang Wei, deputy head of the Beijing games organising committee, dismissed questions about the protest zones on Monday. “It’s all [down] to lack of understanding of the situation in China....
...Similarly, Zhang Wei has been jailed for a month for asking to protest against the demolition of her Beijing home to make way for a property development....
...Zhang Wei, a Beijing resident, has been imprisoned for a month after she requested permission to protest against the demolition of her home. ”We have not been able to make contact with her at all for days...
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