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...Not just in chips, but in everything through the South China Seas would be 1,000 times that. JOHN CORNYN: This is a bad day for President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party....
...Early last year, prime minister Hun Sen ordered extra efforts to combat pollution after PM2.5 spiked to over 60 micrograms per cubic metre....
...It will reflect the recovery of the UK economy which I think will be slow, see my answer to question 1. John Muellbauer: Unemployment is likely to rise to near 7 per cent by autumn....
...There are now 532,692 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University....
...For the equivalent-sized flat in Shepherd’s Bush with a schlep from the Tube station I would pay £1,600 a month. Add to that a zones 1&2 Travelcard at £138 a month....
...Don’t forget to click here if you’d like to receive Long Story Short by email every Friday. 1. What on earth will we talk about when it’s over? Brexit....
...The Minitaur’s offspring may one day scout out dangerous combat zones, deploy bombs or fire weapons....
...In a video interview published April 8, founder John Brown told viewers: We've found oil in the State of Israel...it's 16,500 feet in the ground. We're gonna test the well in the next 3-4 weeks....
...Austen’s remarkable family connected her to danger and to war zones....
...That compares with 2,600 Chinese troops deployed under UN mandates — China’s only foreign military deployments in conflict zones....
...Here, Britain does the mentoring. With three intakes a year, it is designed to produce 1,140 officers annually, of whom 90 are women....
...Slim as it was, the commercial exclusion zone around a new movie often felt like the last buffer around film itself....
...It was $70bn in 2013; by 2016, defence analysts IHS Jane’s predict it to have risen to $100bn....
...John Cryan, the former UBS banker who succeeded Anshu Jain as co-chief executive of Deutsche on July 1, said the results — which included a €1.2bn litigation charge mainly linked to “legacy US mortgage-related...
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
...By 2020-21 the Single Intelligence Account will rise from £2.1 billion to reach £2.8 billion, and the Defence budget will rise from £34bn today to £40bn....
...Amazon’s first desks were old doors; to recommend, as the Monocle guide does, a leather top you can get from a website so expensive that it does not even post prices is a kind of sick joke....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Improvements in financial technology that allow people to evade the Gesell tax are increases in the velocity of money, V....
...; submit ‘v low Libor’ and go ‘LOWER! Go for 3 %. I want yr end 3mL to be 2.8% or at worst 2.88%.’”...
...This philosopher does a better job and with more humour....
...Jane Owen ——————————————- Illustration by Chris Wormell...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Financial stocks led the gains in Shanghai, with ICBC up 3.8 per cent, Agricultural Bank of China rising 4.6 per cent and Ping An Insurance jumping 8 per cent....
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