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...The author Alison Uttley despised her rival Enid Blyton, whom she described as a “vulgar, curled woman”....
...Most of the insolvencies were small businesses – including Evans Brothers Limited, the company that first published books by children’s writer Enid Blyton....
...But in general, Christie’s was saying “no” to sellers more often than before in a less exuberant market, he warned....
...This week, the 21st Century Business Herald reported that an independent laboratory found excess levels of industrial plasticiser in a bottle of Jiugui baijiu sold by an authorised seller in Beijing....
...It’s the sellers. The reserve prices for some items were set too high on the vendors’ insistence, says François Curiel, President of Christie’s Asia....
...It also aims to increase LCD TV sales this year by about 20 per cent to 30m units, seeking to become the largest seller of 3D TVs by capturing about a quarter of the market....
...Court referred to how Thomas Chan, an executive director arrested last week, had allegedly arranged for Sun Hung Kai Properties to acquire a parcel of land through a middleman at a higher price than the seller...
...the writ of summons filed to the Hong Kong High Court referred to how Mr Chan had allegedly arranged for Sun Hung Kai Properties to acquire a parcel of land through a middleman at a higher price than the seller...
...But at the Friday and Saturday sales conducted by Sotheby’s and Acker Merrall & Condit, the world’s largest wine seller, buyers were still snapping up top Burgundies at prices which topped pre-sale estimates...
...Average hammer prices, the cost before the seller’s commission, are going up despite the volume of sales going down, she says....
...Reporting by Neil Hume in Sydney, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York, Jeremy Grant in Singapore and Enid Tsui in Hong Kong...
...There has been speculation that short sellers are to blame but Lentchner points out that many investors who are not hedge funds are selling down their Hong Kong holdings heavily....
...The Meiyintang seller was very happy with the payment for the items sold in April, Mr Ching explained, so they decided to drop the HK$8m deposit requirement....
...The potential sellers will probably widen their scope for further price negotiations which may lead to short-term reductions in property prices,” said Credit Suisse’s property analysts in Hong Kong....
...She has since founded Slovenian Properties, an online advertiser for Slovenian sellers and an advisory service for foreign buyers....
...“The global gas story has changed dramatically in the last 18-24 months and it is now a sellers’ market,” said Gavin Thompson, head of China oil research at Wood MacKenzie in Beijing....
...At the same time, foreigners are net sellers in South Korea by around US$800m in the last six months....
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