Hints and tips:
...Wu Guoguang, who worked as an adviser to former Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang, wrote in a recent essay published by the China Leadership Monitor, a US research group, that a “new era of factional politics...
...Besides Xi, anti-corruption tsar Zhao Leji and ideological guru Wang Huning remain on the Politburo Standing Committee but will be given new portfolios....
...“There is a clear flare-up of anti-American sentiment,” said Ma Zhao, a history professor at Washington University in St Louis....
...Credit Suisse’s Mr Zhao said the central bank would have little trouble tweaking its rules if necessary....
...Ms Mehta and Ms Zhao’s new China funds are down about 9 per cent to 10 per cent this year....
...“He wanted to take back the 16 lost years and do more practical things for the party and the people,” Ms Qi writes....
...“Most Yichang residents haven’t been abroad yet — they are just crossing the income threshold for overseas travel,” said Zhao Qi, a manager at Kanghui Travel Agency....
...This winter Beijing residents have been mocking what many call Mr Cai’s san da hun zhao, or “three dumb ideas”....
...Newspaper illustrator Zhao Liang says his attempts to give up smoking were hampered by colleagues who have turned parts of the workplace into a “smoking centre”....
...The central characters — Wu Husheng as the love-struck Emperor; Qi Bingxue, an exquisite figure as the Emperor’s beloved; Zhao Hanbing, whom I supposed was a sylphide in quest of a convenient glen, but is...
...Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi...
...Zhao Qi Guang, a spokesperson for the company, on Tuesday said that the offer was driven by purely commercial reasons....
...Additional reporting by Zhao Xue...
...Mr Qi could not be reached on his mobile phone on Saturday....
...says Tan Chorh Chuan, vice-chairman of A-star, Singapore?s science funding agency, which is concentrating its spending growth on the biomedical sciences....
...Meanwhile, in a gesture recalling Van Gogh, artist Sheng Qi recently cut off his finger and photographed his maimed hand holding a snapshot of China’s annual Communist Party conference....
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