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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....
...Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan in 2012 built one of the world’s largest residential football academies in Qingyuan in southern China’s Guangdong province with the help of coaches from Spanish club Real Madrid...
...“China had to fawn over Foxconn because they could make or break a region’s development,” Chen said....
...Low salaries add to pressure on doctors, said Jin Dong-yan, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong....
...Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo, translated by Yan Yan, Penguin Classics £18.99, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...But for Beijing, CBAM is an example of green protectionism, says Yan Qin, a carbon analyst at London Stock Exchange Group....
...Evergrande revealed last week that Ding Yumei, the wife of founder Hui Ka Yan, had bought $3m of the company’s investment products in a show of support....
...here in Guangzhou to see whether it works . . . whether even if they do less mass testing and don’t execute the really stringent lockdowns, whether Covid could still be put under control,” said Jin Dong-yan...
...“Lenders dislike prepayments,” said Yan. “If prepayment surges too much, they’ll fail to achieve the annual lending target set by regulators.”...
...“Being a loyal ally to Xi should not be considered a sin,” argues Chen Long at Plenum, a Beijing-based consultancy....
...Helen Chen, greater China managing partner at LEK Consulting in Shanghai, noted that the “government’s vaccination push has waned as resources shifted to manage outbreaks”....
...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...
...“Match-fixing will not drive progress in Chinese football,” Caixin quoted Chinese Football Association president Chen Xuyuan as saying in wake of the scandal. “This phenomenon cannot be tolerated.”...
...“It may take a while for deaths to come through the system,” Chen said....
...Striding into the ballroom of one of his company’s hotels, glad-handing football stars and pouring champagne into a tower of flutes, Evergrande boss Hui Ka Yan was riding high....
...Original shareholders including Hui Ka Yan will be wiped out. “This is how Beijing has managed highly indebted companies over the past three to four years,” Chen added....
...Karen Chen, a US figure skater who stumbled through her own routine on Thursday to finish 16th, said: “I’ve been pretty fatigued from everything skating-related and not-skating related.”...
...The People’s Bank of China reiterated its criticism of Hui Ka Yan for Evergrande’s woes again in October and early December....
...“The real estate sector is likely to continue to be a major drag on growth as regulation stifles housing sales and new property investment,” said Xingdong Chen, chief China economist at BNP Paribas....
...The latest uptick in shares followed a statement by Hui Ka Yan, Evergrande’s founder and chair, to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday night, in which he sought to address “recent increases in the price...
...Yan Lianke, one of China’s most widely celebrated writers, has often said that realism alone cannot capture modern China: “There are things that happen in this country that you couldn’t dream up.”...
...Evergrande has benefited from decades of urbanisation in China, which made its chair Hui Ka Yan the country’s richest man and also led to its liabilities ballooning....
...“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...
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