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...Ricky Kang, head of business at Naver Z, the Naver subsidiary that operates Zepeto, now wants to grow its popularity globally....
...“This is not just a bland box with holes punched in.” The architect insists it is the “humanity” of his buildings that sets them apart from others....
...The work chosen for its benefit gala at the Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center in Brooklyn was the most conventionally operatic — Ricky Ian Gordon’s Ellen West....
...It disappeared 24 years ago when the politicians had become bland and the programme-makers had lost the plot....
...After graduating from Bristol Old Vic theatre school in 1999, she had small parts in comedy shows, including Ricky Gervais’s The Office and the medical sitcom, Green Wing....
...“I don’t think we should mix sports and politics,” said Ricky Cheung, 35, a waiter. “But I don’t think they should bring in a new law as it might stir more emotions against China....
...Glenn Tiffert, a research fellow at the University of Michigan, found that two of China’s main online databases for scholarly articles had removed dozens of articles that questioned the Communist party’s...
...“The figures speak for themselves but we have to put them into the perspective of what’s been happening since 2002,” said Glenn McCartney, an assistant professor of gaming and hospitality management at the...
...“The Hong Kong room had a glass bathroom wall here,” he adds, pointing to a bland wall featuring an obligatory hotel watercolour....
...Glenn Maguire, chief Asia economist at ANZ bank in Singapore, says Mr Widodo’s plans to revamp healthcare and education, cut the $21bn fuel subsidy bill and upgrade ailing infrastructure could be blocked...
...Seeking to conceive a new opera for Stephanie Blythe, the company responded positively to the composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s suggestion of a work about the expatriate writer – a role that in the event persuasively...
...Elisha Willis, channelling Grace Kelly with her honey blonde chignon, did what she could with Bintley’s bland and underwritten heroine....
...Deforestation of peat is happening at an accelerating rate in Borneo, for example,” said Glenn Hurowitz, managing director of Climate Advisers, a consultancy part-funded by the Norwegian government and which...
...Ricky Muir, leader of the Australian Motoring Enthusiast party, was filmed taking part in a backyard fight with friends using kangaroo droppings....
...Looking at individual bids, only one player went for over $1m, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell who was bought by the Mumbai Indians....
...“We made it and it ate us,” says co-leader Glenn Frey of the group’s dizzying ascent in the mid-1970s, and its subsequent demise. Never did feel-good turn so quickly into misery....
...Despite fancy decorations and time-consuming presentation, this is the food of middle America – familiar, comforting and bland....
...The Childhood of Jesus, by JM Coetzee, Harvill Secker, RRP£16.99, 288 pages A lost boy and the kindly man who cares for him are the central figures in Coetzee’s conjured world of Novilla, a bland place...
...When a squatter moved into the international school that Ricky Tan was building in Danang, Vietnam’s fourth-largest city, the Singaporean investor phoned the local Communist party chief....
...The BBC is basically bland but often slips over to the left – you always know which way it’s going to go.” Opinionated broadcasting may come quite soon....
...that a transparency culture simply causes a displacement of the semi-private into the wholly private – with public figures relying more on public relations to act as a shield, and turning an increasingly bland...
...The lead is a bland composite of Dustin Hoffman’s Benjamin Braddock and Tom Courtenay’s Billy Fisher. The whole thing culminates in a slew of speeches and epiphanies....
...Stephen Merchant was on a BBC production course when he made a 30-minute film, Seedy Boss, starring friend and colleague Ricky Gervais....
...The inside of the office is the opposite of flash – it is bland beyond belief; the walls magnolia, and the furniture office standard....
...But he had in support Stuart Clark, successor to Glenn McGrath as Test cricket’s leading metronome....
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