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...Cho previously served on the staff of former president Chen Shui-bian and as a lawmaker. The new cabinet will take office upon Lai’s inauguration on May 20....
...Jiang Qing married the most powerful man in China, created revolutionary operas and was celebrated for bringing to life films by the country’s greatest directors....
...Chen learnt about 228 at school....
...“China had to fawn over Foxconn because they could make or break a region’s development,” Chen said....
...The Qing government ruled the western plains of the island for 212 years, before it ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki....
...Chao Chun-shan, a China scholar who has advised four successive Taiwanese presidents on cross-Strait relations, predicts that Beijing will massively step up such tactics right after the elections....
...“China-Europe relations have picked up significantly because Europe is not advocating decoupling from China and demanding strategic independence,” says Ding Chun, a director at the Centre for European Studies...
...Chen’s café presents a model of how to balance canine and human needs for socialising. “We are trying to create a civilised dog-owning space in Beijing,” Chen says....
...“Hong Kong plays a very important role for Taiwanese private wealth management,” said Patrick Chen, head of Taiwan research at CLSA, the brokerage....
...Wang Chen, an NPC vice-chairman, has also confirmed that anyone hoping to run for a legislative seat must be nominated by the overwhelmingly pro-Beijing “election committee” that selects Hong Kong’s chief...
...After graduating, he joined talent agency JetStar Entertainment and returned to Taiwan to work as a model alongside Sphinx Ting, Lan Chun-Tien and Victor Chen. The group became known as “Fashion 4”....
...Shih explains his fascination with the period: “In the early 20th century, China was undergoing upheaval, in the period between the end of the Qing dynasty and the republic. It was a mess.”...
...Peng Chun, chairman of Bank of Communications, one of the country’s biggest lenders, will soon join China Investment Corp, as the fund is known, according to several people familiar with the matter....
...His own collection includes Chinese and Taiwanese artists such as Sanyu, Lin Fengmian, Xu Beijong, Yan Wenliang, Liu Haisu, Chen Cheng-Po, Liao Chi-Chun, Chang Shuhong and many more....
...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....
...Other highlights include Chen Hongshou’s delicate, pink-tipped 17th-century ink on silk “Lotus and Rock” (est $1m-$1.5m) and Xu Beihong’s 1935 “Galloping Horse” (est $150,000-$250,000)....
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...China’s Qing dynasty claimed the region as its “new frontier” — the literal translation of Xinjiang — in the 18th century, following a series of bloody military campaigns that wiped out the local Tibetan...
...“Male workers have nearly all left town to seek jobs,” said Ma Chun, a shop clerk. “It used to be our city’s strongest enterprise.”...
...But a core group of CADTIC bureaucrats — including Mr Chen — sought to get around the sanctions....
...Ms Tsai, 59, has reinvigorated the DPP after a corruption scandal engulfed Taiwan’s first and, to date, only opposition president, Chen Shui-bian....
...“The Shanghai government has changed its strategies and practices since Expo 2012,” explains Chen Anda, deputy director of the state-owned Shanghai West Bund Development Group....
...Reliance on third parties As with Mr Chen and Ms Qing, the vast majority (81.9 per cent) of surveyed merchants relied on third-party platforms to offer and promote their O2O services (see chart), leaving...
...During China’s last dynasty, the Qing, the actual term “spring roll” (chun juan) finally appeared....
...Chen Xiaogang, chief executive officer of Lisa Womens’ shoe store based in the southern city of Shenzhen, which employs about 50 people, has been selling on Ebay-like Taobao since its founding six years...
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