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...We had help this week from Josh Gabert-Doyon, Monique Mulima, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and Gavin Kallmann. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...“The panic selling could carry on for a while as a negative feedback loop has been formed,” said Huang Da, a bond fund manager based in Hangzhou, the capital of eastern Zhejiang province....
...Huang Da, a Hangzhou-based bond fund manager, said the rating improvements have more to do with political considerations than business fundamentals....
...Huang Da, owner of Qianyi Investment, a Hangzhou-based bond fund, pointed to low returns as a reason for staying away. “Market forces do not support the security,” he said....
...Samsung is still investing heavily in its memory chipmaking plant in Xian, to which Chinese premier Li Keqiang made a surprise visit this week, saying he “welcomes increased investment in China by Samsung...
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Leonardo da Vinci. I sometimes imagine what it would be like to meet him, but I can’t even picture his face....
...The grandest of burials is possibly that of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, whose mausoleum in Xian includes a terracotta army of more than 8,000 soldiers....
...So whole castles like Santa Maria da Feira in Portugal took her name, along with chapels serving castles from Prague to Dover....
...Indeed, the Magna Carta is called “Da xian zhang” or “Great Constitution Charter” in Chinese....
...Xi Shaodong, 25, was among the workers who took advantage of the compensation squeezed from IBM, using it to begin a new life in his native city of Xian, far to the north....
...Oh no, that’s the party secretary,” said Huang Xiaoming, a local resident, when quizzed on the sidelines of one event....
...Soprano Ying Huang’s Goddess of Fate floated lyrically above the orchestra, while mezzo-soprano Ning Liang’s Lady of the River flowed with earthy vocalism....
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...A new chairman, Zhang Da Zhong, was appointed who was believed to be close to Mr Huang. Mr Huang is serving a 14-year prison sentence in China for bribery and insider trading....
...Maria das Graças Silva Foster, gas and energy director of the Brazilian multinational Petrobras (85 per cent male), draws murmured support when she says when she is with her children, she loves them, but...
...Mr Das says the scandal has forced Indian business to do “a lot of soul-searching”....
...It belongs to the Taiwanese furniture designer David Huang, whose grandfather owned the house prior to his flight from China in 1949, and though Huang hasn’t sought to decorate it in a particularly art deco...
...“I would say that Beijing art is more political, in Shanghai it’s more commercial and in Guangzhou it’s more relaxed and playful,” says Huang He, a designer at the Vitamin space....
...There are also plans to have foreign interns in Xian, a big city further inland that is much less internationalised than the capital and the coastal provinces....
...The People’s Liberation Army and its naval wing moved beyond a singular focus on Taiwan “several years ago”, according to Alex Huang, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Taipei....
...A quick internet search brings up reports of such delicacies as “benumbed hot Huang fries belly silk” and “the fragrance explodes the cowboy bone”....
...Jia Li, who runs the shop Song Mei Oil Painting, sells careful copies of Leonardi da Vinci's Mona Lisa and a cartoonish Chinese version....
...Likewise, there are five flavours: xin or strong, gan or sweet, suan or sour, ku or bitter, and xian, which means salty....
...Huang Jinxin, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recalls that standard Chinese school textbooks compared India unfavourably with China on key indicators....
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