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...Chinese policymakers have for months been trying “and largely failing” to stabilise the country’s struggling property market, said Evans-Pritchard....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...But this month a trio of economists — Leah Platt Boustan, Christine Cai and Tammy Tseng — published the first extensive, data-driven study of the issue....
...The garden designer Sean A Pritchard also favours bringing terracotta pots inside, and he recommends, too, using a variety of bowls and jugs to plant bulbs in....
...And K’tsobe, a Rwandan designer, has created a copper, silver and brass necklace that blends her culture with mokume gane, a Japanese metalwork....
...The breakout star of the week was alleged hacker and bona fide rapper Razzlekhan, a.k.a....
...That or I’d have gone into a K-hole of mute anxiety as the former “number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe” wiped the floor with me in unsparing, affectless prose....
...Now we’re returning to the office, we’re at risk of what occupational psychologist Christine Grant calls a “hybrid hangover”, feeling mentally exhausted from switching back and forth between remote working...
...Xi vs fan armies in crackdown on celebrity culture In its latest crackdown on popular culture, the Chinese government has taken aim at K-pop fan armies and supposedly “effeminate” men....
...Or, if you fancy a jive, look on YouTube for lessons with Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse. How about classes in Korean K-pop, Afrofusion and Bollyfunk? Or, feel yourself a prima ballerina?...
...Like a high-powered scene from a full opera, it takes the singer through the gamut of emotions and Christine Rice made a splendidly intense job of it, bolstered Richard Hetherington’s urgent conducting....
...In the meantime, Christine Hurley, Monroe County’s assistant administrator, says that 2013 calculations based on evacuation capacity in the event of tropical storms left the county with just 1,970 new-home...
...Had Sleater-Kinney eschewed scrappily melodic punk rock in favour of tightly choreographed K-pop? Was this to be a sonic cataclysm that would rewrite pop history? No, of course not....
...He concludes: “Make sure [your] memories are of something better than diligent tithes to your 401(k). Retrench in your thirties, if you must, or just marry into money.” 5....
...Labels including K-Tel and Dino Entertainment released compilation records in the 1980s that were known as cheap albums of old hits....
...Recently, I read a short story called Exhibit Piece by science fiction writer Philip K Dick....
...Written by Jack Thorne and based on a story concocted by J.K....
...He adds: “Personally, I think it would be a great idea. It’s our Eiffel Tower, our Big Ben, our Sydney Opera House.” That kind of talk is anathema to Christine O’Brien....
...and Strategic Adviser, Scottish Centre on European Relations Prof Andrew Scott University of Edinburgh Anne Scott Secretary, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Scottish Branch Peter K...
...It became less bucolic, more a place of recreation; less Kenneth Grahame, more Jerome K Jerome. Hikers, cyclists and dog walkers appeared on the banks. A few hardy souls were swimming....
...It has taken more than a drop of Polyjuice Potion to turn Harry Potter into this latest incarnation. J.K....
...“I have a client who’s into amps,” Rustin says, “his company’s called Endless Nobbing.” We laugh. “With a ‘K’,” Rustin says, “as in Knobbing.”...
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99 / Scribner, RRP$26 A billionaire seeks to defy death in this 17th novel by one of America’s most celebrated writers, his first since Point Omega in 2010....
...Christine Lagarde predicted worldwide expansion will fall short of last year’s figures and there will be only modest growth in 2016....
...The Canadian fertilisers group is mulling a $7bn takeover of rival K+S, which is based in the German city....
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