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...“The ability to refinance is key to LGFVs, as they are supposed to finance the local economic development on behalf of the governments,” Kwok said....
...I would work out with the trainer who helped Boris Johnson bounce back from Covid, and eat a seven-course £195 feast inspired by Sir Francis Bacon and cooked by a celebrity chef from Argentina....
...wife and model Annette, priced at €1.45mn (c1953-54, Kamel Mennour), Robert Motherwell’s France-appropriate “Je t’aime No II” (1955, $6.5mn, Pace gallery) and, at Lisson Gallery, four new paintings by Yu...
...Sit Pui-yu, whose mother died during the Sars epidemic that claimed 299 lives in Hong Kong in 2003, lives alone in a public housing apartment in Kowloon....
...The Cercius Group, which has studied Chu’s political connections and that of her husband, businessman Lam Kwok Man, said it did not “expect any good outcome”....
...The Kwoks of Sun Hung Kai are the region’s second-richest family, according to a 2020 Bloomberg survey....
...necessarily indicate Beijing intends to eliminate foreign casinos, but with US-China tensions high, they may want mainland companies to take a greater stake in the American businesses, according to Elio Yu...
...Herman Yu, Baidu’s chief financial officer said: “Most shops, restaurants and malls across China were closed down . . . so consequently the rebound for online marketing after the Chinese new year has been...
...This would help “to facilitate the Catholic Church spreading faith inside Mainland China”, said Professor Joseph Cheng Yu-Shek, of Hong Kong’s City University....
...Sotheby’s has brought Francis Bacon’s unrelenting “Study for a Head” (1952), the head-and-shoulders portrait of a silently screaming Pope, that will be offered for between $20m and $30m on May 16....
...His company today stands firmly among Hong Kong’s big four property conglomerates, alongside CK Hutchison Holdings, Cheng Yu-tung’s New World Development and Kwok Tak-seng’s Sun Hung Kai Properties....
...“The market is already at a very high level near 30,000 points so the SFC wants to keep stocks in a safe position,” said Francis Kwok, managing director at local brokerage Freeman Securities....
...Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s “Dear” stands out within the Arsenale interior: a large silicon white chair, in imperial Roman style, raised and enclosed in a glass cage like a throne....
...Gotham City’s founder was ultimately unmasked as US-based investor Daniel Yu....
...“Hong Kong’s legal system is no longer truly independent,” says Mr Kwok. “This is just the beginning. Integration is accelerating.”...
...The Tempest’s translator So Kwok Wan says: “Modern Chinese language and modern Chinese theatre have changed over the past 100 years....
...“People at the moment are quite concerned about the economic and political influence of China,” said Francis Kwok, managing director at local brokerage Freeman Securities....
...“I feel a little upset to see it close,” said Francis Kwok, managing director at local brokerage Freeman Securities and a Hong Kong trader who got his start at the Far Eastern Exchange, a predecessor to...
...A small section has modern paintings: Picasso and Sam Francis, for example, at Christophe Van de Weghe — one Francis sold on the first night at US$475,000....
...The case’s two other defendants, Francis Kwan and Thomas Chan, were each found guilty of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to offer an advantage to a public servant....
...The city still has as many billionaires represented at the top of the region’s rich lists, with Mr Li, Lee Shau-kee, Cheng Yu-tung and the Kwok brothers present in any top 20 list....
...(FT, NYT$) Pope Francis scolded the Vatican’s bureaucrats He said the Curia’s 15 ills were weakening the mission....
...Francis Bea of PapayaMobile, a Chinese mobile technology company, says Alibaba is attempting to mirror Tencent’s success with WeChat....
...Additional Reporting by Gu Yu...
...The Kwok brothers, Thomas Chan – another Sun Hung Kai executive – and businessman Francis Kwan, along with Mr Hui, all face a charge of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office....
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