Hints and tips:
...The merest jerk of the chin sends the feather scribbling calligraphically in the dancer’s wake, exaggerating each gesture, amplifying every movement and prolonging its arc in lingering aftertraces....
...Hong Kong-based collector Edmond Chin, creative director at jeweller Boghossian, witnessed “lots of Mandarin spoken, almost as much as Cantonese” — a sign that visitors from mainland China had defied the...
...A highlight is the menacing/vulnerable “Boy Smoking” (1950), a young criminal with furrowed brow, too-wide eyes, too-thick lips, cigarette casting a livid shadow down his chin....
...Taipei Story tells of childhood sweethearts Ah Chin and Ah Lung (pop star Tsai Chin and fellow director Hou Hsiao-hsien, neither of whom had acted professionally before)....
...the CCP’s increasingly tightened control of social and economic resources and opportunities, it has become even more important than before for elites in China to become ‘insiders’ of the ‘system’,” said Chen...
...Most recently, General Chang Che-Ping, who retired as deputy defence minister in June, is under investigation over allegations of having contacts with a Chinese spy and leaking secrets....
...A Wall Street Journal reporter who left China in 2018 to return to the US, Te-Ping Chen knows the importance of both journalism and fiction....
...Scars ran across Charlie’s chin, knees, knuckles, scalp and eyebrows from where his colossal body had unexpectedly crashed to the ground and pounded against it until the thrashing stopped....
...“Beijing will not hesitate to completely overhaul an entire business environment if it deems it politically necessary,” says Chen Long at Plenum, a Beijing-based consultancy....
...His chief financial officer, Arthur Chen, recalls: “He met several famous [venture capitalist] investors and laid out his business plan and road map....
...Come the national day holiday next month Huanxi will release Leap, about Chinese volleyball star Lang Ping who led the national team to victory in the 1984 Olympics....
...Yet unlike Beijing’s “panda” or “ping-pong” initiatives of the past, it is driven by popular grassroots enthusiasm — which has made Chinese officials sit up and take notice....
...Last year, 12 per cent of new leases in Beijing and Shanghai were taken up by co-working companies, according to Mr Chin....
...“It could be that there is a change in personnel and there’s no one there to sign the document to release the fund,” said Ms Chen at Fitch....
...With a mandate to relate the ignored or forgotten story of Hong Kong’s textile industry, Cheung appointed Chin Chin Teoh and Mizuki Takahashi as CHAT’s directors....
...It is the evening of the mid-autumn festival, my destination the frontier village of Ping Che....
...Chen Qiushi, a lawyer and citizen journalist, began posting videos from around Wuhan in which he showed long lines of weak, frustrated patients waiting to see doctors....
...Chinese insurer Ping An is hoping to raise up to $1bn with the float of its fintech unit OneConnect....
...“Some investors did not want to wait so long for mid-cap inclusion so we decided to bring it forward,” said Chin Ping Chia, head of Asia-Pacific research at MSCI....
...“Yayoi Kusama’s works were not famous in Japan in the beginning; her market really started in Taiwan in the 1990s,” says Hong Ping Tao, founder of Caves Art Center, one of the oldest commercial galleries...
...He acquired pieces by the new-media pioneer Yuan Goang-Ming and by Chen Chieh-jen, an artist known for his active social practice....
...“We can exclude any companies if they have prolonged suspensions,” said Chin Ping Chia, head of research for Asia Pacific at MSCI. “That sends an important signal to listed companies in China.”...
...It will be led by Eric Chen, formerly of private equity firm Silver Lake. Read more on what SoftBank is up to in China here....
...UBS estimates the drawdown risk from uncollateralised loans to HNA stands at as much as 2 per cent of the book value of Ping An Bank....
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