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...Instead, taciturn middle-aged farmer Ma Youtie (Wu Renlin) continues his toil as his relatives broker a marriage to disabled spinster Cao Guiying (Hai Qing)....
...“Doing business is more difficult nowadays in mainland China, with a smaller market and stronger competition,” says Danny Lau of Kam Pin Industrial, which produces aluminium curtain walls for residential...
...At a border checkpoint in Lok Ma Chau near Shenzhen on Sunday morning, queues of mainland visitors to Hong Kong highlighted the importance of the reopening....
...In a giddy set-piece, “Pa” sings “Everlasting Love” to “Ma” and means it. Less vocal but just as sturdy are his grandparents: Ciarán Hinds twinkling, Judi Dench a giant-hearted matriarch....
...“Ma was still alive in 1969 and we had relatives in Belfast, so we were very aware of what was happening....
...One door has the word “MARNI” hand-painted across it, reminiscent of Danny’s scribbled handwriting in Stanley Kubrick’s film, The Shining....
...Best Actor nominees include the late Chadwick Boseman for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Stephen Yeun (Minari)....
...The correct response seems obvious: “It’s Ralph Fiennes, ma’am. He’s doing an accent.” But no, the butler plays along, introducing him instead as Basil Brown....
...AIP has no staff outside of New York, but four of its executives — Dino Cusumano, Danny Davis, Zac Carson and Max Holmes — turned up in northern France last week to tell 100 workers at Gupta’s Dunkirk aluminium...
...In the present, the star is Tzi Ma, cast as Pin-Jui, a long adopted New Yorker visibly worn down by life. (His wife Zhenzhen — played by Fiona Fu — is visibly worn down by him.)...
...Unlike in mainland China, the Basic Law provides for the separation of powers between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, according to Geoffrey Ma, the chief justice of the Hong Kong Court...
...Almost certainly not: Jesse is “moonwalking on ma nerves!” declares Kelvin....
...In the climax of a film from 1949, which actor speaks the line, “Made it ma, top of the world”?...
...Danny Law, an analyst with Chinese brokerage company Guotai Junan International, notes that Alibaba is burning cash to cultivate its next growth engine....
...The main draw here is the razzle-dazzle, delivered by choreographer Stephen Mear, who fills the stage with sizzling jazzy routines, and the swoony crooning of Danny Mac as Bob (the Bing Crosby role)....
...Yeats’s later essays, a book about Danny Boyle, and a big stack of things I’m reading for the Somerset Maugham Prize. What book changed your life?...
...‘Jason Bourne’ goes on UK release on July 29 Danny Leigh is an FT film critic Photographs: Alamy; Universal Pictures...
...When I tell Danny Sapani this, he laughs. “No pressure!” he says. Sapani is about to play Tshembe and the actor, a thoughtful, approachable 45-year-old, is keenly aware of the scale of the role....
...Mr Gott says: “I persuaded Will to ditch his MA when I found an old Bengal fried chicken [shop].”...
...Kunal worked at HM Treasury as adviser on the rescue of RBS and Lloyds during the financial crisis, the euro-area crisis, the UK’s presidency of the G8, and as private secretary and speechwriter to Sir Danny...
...Fanzhi collaboration, sold to benefit Ma’s conservation charity....
...Rather, he is Iraq veteran and handsome stranger David, a chiselled hunk of thank-you-ma’am manners visiting the family of a fallen comrade in suburban New Mexico....
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...The BBC said that the show, a live broadcast of the film director Danny Boyle’s phantasmagorical ceremony, was still being watched by more than 20m people in the UK at midnight....
...As Danny Meyer in New York explained: “The challenge for me is to create somewhere that combines the excitement of going out … with the comfort factor of being welcomed and looked after as though you were...
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