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...The true story on which the tale is hung is the GameStop short squeeze of 2021: the social-media-driven campaign to buy stock in the struggling US video game retailer, pushing back on institutional shorting...
...“If the economy doesn’t improve, the real estate sector won’t improve,” said Leung....
...in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime traders’ deity known as the “god of the Southern Sea”....
...The 47 defendants include activist Joshua Wong, AFP journalist-turned-lawmaker Claudia Mo, social activist and League of Social Democrats co-founder “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and former BBC Chinese journalist...
...The 47 defendants include activist Joshua Wong, former Agence France-Presse journalist-turned-lawmaker Claudia Mo, social activist and League of Social Democrats co-founder “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and...
...At the end of the coalition negotiations following the hung parliament in 2010, the Conservatives and the Lib Dems had achieved an agreement in principle. The question turned to next steps....
...Chan’s husband, Leung Kwok-hung, also known as “Long Hair”, is standing trial in a landmark security case alongside 46 other opposition activists....
...We meet him sleeping uneasily in a deeply Cronenbergian bed, the frame like an upturned bug hung from the ceiling, intravenous limbs plugged into his body....
...Anna and Danny Gross are siblings. Anna Gross is the FT’s telecoms, media and technology correspondent Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Thatcher died in 2013 and the Warrenders, which had hung in her private home, sold out of her estate to London dealership Peter Harrington, from where they were bought by their anonymous seller at Dreweatt...
...On the way, the reader is treated to pen-portraits of everyone from a domineering but refreshingly libertarian Margaret Thatcher to the “mildly sinister, longtime communist trustie” CY Leung, who went on...
...She also hung out with Robert Frank and Danny Lyon, giants of American documentary photography. “I watched them work; and I knew friends who had darkrooms in the bathroom,” she recalls....
...Fellow MP Danny Kruger hit out at the “Marxism, narcissism and paganism” that he said have radicalised young people under the banner of “progressive liberalism”....
...Does he agree with Danny Kruger that normative families are important?...
...Still, as Danny Leigh’s review describes it as a superior example of the form, I am not, quite yet, going to revisit my general scepticism towards the genre as a whole....
...Before we have even seen our subjects, a revelation is hung over their heads — “Lucille Ball is a communist!” — that might kill the whole shebang stone dead....
...The casting of Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung — each born in Hong Kong — was a triumph of chemistry. And yet the film has a secret....
...(For a different, more sophisticated take, try Danny Leigh.)...
...Ho-Fung Hung, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University who studies Hong Kong’s politics, said the election was a charade....
...A caller in the midst of a drug overdose is scolded; another simply hung up on. And then there is the reporter, phoning Joe to get what she calls his side of the story....
...A double homage to Apocalypse Now finds Skarsgard channelling first Marlon Brando then Martin Sheen — not that either hung like larvae from the ceiling....
...Read FT film critic Danny Leigh’s review here. If that’s not to your taste, here are five other films to watch this week, all reviewed by Danny....
...But it’s worth your time and you’ll get an interesting conversation out of it at least — Danny Leigh’s review is also worth a read....
...Whether they would return would depend very much on Hong Kong’s upcoming Covid policies,” said Danny Lau, honorary chair of the Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises Association....
...You can read Danny Leigh’s review here as well as his take on five other films to watch this weekend....
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