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...John Strand, founder of Denmark-based consultancy Strand Consult, said the Chinese group’s participation was “like inviting someone you don’t trust to visit your secret offices....
...“China is facing increasing national security threats from the US and the west,” Lau said....
...There is a perception that older workers don’t keep up with the latest technological developments, that they don’t have energy to keep up the hard work and that they’re too expensive,” said Beijing-based...
...Lau’s life in Sha Tau Kok has changed little in half a century....
...I think most [developers] are approaching it very carefully,” Lau said....
...“I don’t want to be fatalistic about it, but even if there are large numbers of Hongkongers, that in and of itself isn’t necessarily going to translate into success.”...
...Rob Hastie and Anthony Lau’s production goes some way to scrubbing it clean....
...“I don’t think Hong Kong voters have changed their minds. Today they just don’t have a voice any more,” Cabestan said....
...“I’m telling my government — I don’t care what the price is, you haveto pay it,” said Lior....
...“It’s not how we do high-end interior design,” Seigal recalls him saying, “and I don’t know how [good] I would be over video anyway.”...
...“They [China] know they will be playing a greater role in this region, they want stability, but at the same time they don’t want to be sucked into the complexities of it,” Rudolf said....
...“I don’t think [policymakers] are foolish enough to say ‘we’ve wiped out a third of our developers, this is a good time to introduce a new barrier to households looking to buy their first homes,’” said Chen...
...The chicken itself must be a yellow-skinned bird over 120 days old, says Hong Kong food-writer Lau Kin-wai, and “you don’t use direct heat but steep the whole bird several times in hot water, so the meat...
...Chef Vicky Lau’s two-Michelin-star Tate Dining Room is a better option for something spectacular FYI: Don’t be fooled by the faux antiques on Cat Street — head to nearby Hollywood Road for genuine Chinese...
...“I don’t see any signs of stress on the peg,” said Kelvin Lau, senior economist for greater China at Standard Chartered....
...Tencent has two core competencies: capital and traffic volume, the company’s president Martin Lau told Chen....
...“I don’t do too much fusion food, but I like a lot of Latin American flavours and do a lot of Peruvian cuisine or even Cuban or Puerto Rican.”...
...They don’t dare to go all in on China anymore,” said Chen....
...But I don’t think any of them are giving up on Hong Kong.”...
...“The inland destinations, the warehouses and distribution centres typically don’t operate 24/7....
...But if Lau and Buchman are wrong, the crypto revolution could be stopped in its tracks....
...“He has been fairly low profile until recently; people don’t know a lot about him,” says Lau Chi-pang, a professor at Lingnan University who sits on the election committee that will rubber-stamp Lee’s appointment...
...“It is unavoidable in her role to appear as though you are also taking the government seriously, even if you don’t plan to buy their story . . ....
...“There’s been some talk about a Lehman Brothers moment [which marked the 2008 crisis] and we don’t really see that happening,” says Alexis Duvernay, a London-based investment specialist at M&G Investments...
...“If the measures don’t get relaxed gradually, the economy would suffer further,” he said....
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