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...January Art ‘Neo Rauch: Field Signs’, David Zwirner An exhibition of new paintings by the German artist....
...Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, both professors, welcomed me with the courtesy and mild indifference of parents greeting a teenager coming over to hang out with their son after school....
...“[Hong Kong’s] Hang Seng index was about property and banks. Now it is a liquid play on China,” says one veteran fund manager....
...And women accounted for only about 15 per cent of board members among Hong Kong-listed companies, according to a database run by Hong Kong shareholder-rights activist David Webb....
...Yanis Varoufakis’s call for Afghan women to “hang in there sisters!” didn’t feel substantive. Yet some gestures can have real power, and impact....
...Tellingly, one of Min Aung Hlaing’s first communications with a foreign leader after seizing power was an overture to neighbouring Thailand’s Prayuth Chan-ocha asking for advice....
...In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Tech index fell almost 15 per cent, dragging the broader Hang Seng benchmark almost 9 per cent lower as Chinese internet giants Tencent and Alibaba fell 18 and 14 per cent, respectively...
...Mr Chan said the supervisory committee could terminate State Street’s manager role if the Tracker Fund failed to properly track the Hang Seng index....
...He pointed out that the Hang Seng is trading at a 15-year low based on listed companies’ book value....
...One bay contains one large work each by three Anglo-American establishment figures — Robert Rauschenberg, David Hammons and Francis Bacon — that invoke the physicality of spiritual suffering....
...She soon ingratiated herself into the art scene, ordering acrylic paint for fellow artists Hon Chi-fun, Gaylord Chan and Cheung Yee in exchange for tutorials in how to use a Chinese brush....
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...“But we don’t hang our hat on meaningless statistics, such as the first to fund $1bn and so on. It’s more about client reviews and getting positive reinforcement.”...
...For all its nods to Snapchat, the movie really does have the shape of an old classic: in one scene, someone even hangs off a ledge by their fingertips....
...Anthony Chan, Asian sovereign strategist at AllianceBernstein in Hong Kong, describes the Chinese government bond market as “very attractive”....
...This is Beijing’s decision,” said Mr Chan, whose Hang Lung group has interests in China....
...General Prayuth Chan-ocha, army chief, used a televised address to urge people not to panic and said the military was taking over “to restore peace back to the country”....
...ends (Washington Post, Kissinger) A US budget for the stump, not for the Hill (Financial Times) Punishing a few oligarchs in London is not enough, or particularly easy (Financial Times, Gapper) The min...
...Gigi Chan, who runs the China Opportunities Fund at Threadneedle, says she always has appetite for deals if they offer sustainable growth at a reasonable price....
...Every citizen was able to vote, or be voted into office, says Chan, chairman of Hang Lung Properties. Economic freedom came through market liberalisation....
...Allen Chan, the Sino-Forest founder who resigned as chief executive on Sunday, and David Horsley, chief financial officer, were also accused of receiving stock options that were either backdated or mispriced...
...KC Chan, secretary for financial services and the treasury, is known to take a critical view of the fragmentation of liquidity....
...China secures key IMF role under Lagarde Zhu Min, former deputy governor of the Chinese central bank, was on Tuesday appointed to the top management of the International Monetary Fund, a signal of China’...
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