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...“Some people thought she was crazy,” says Ian Hylton, the brand’s president and Liu’s partner. “They said nobody wanted to look like that any more.” Liu was ahead of her time....
...At the height of Didi’s cash-burning price war with Uber, Liu had to compete with her cousin, Liu Zhen, a former Silicon Valley lawyer who was head of strategy at Uber China at the time....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou and Xinning Liu...
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu and Christian Shepherd in Beijing and Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...Lee Bo, who worked at the shop, was snatched from Hong Kong, while publisher and author Gui Minhai vanished from Thailand. He later appeared in custody in mainland China....
...His daughter Liu Qing is the president of ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and his niece Liu Zhen is one of the top executives at TikTok owner ByteDance, handling its international business....
...“My son is still on an uphill battle,” said Liu Zijian, 72, a Beijing pensioner. “I can’t take his money.”...
...The row follows Beijing’s criticism of Denmark a decade ago after its prime minister met the Dalai Lama and also Norway for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo....
...“At present only a few schools and public security bureaus have products that include this type of technology,” said Zhen Wenzhuang at Baidu’s booth at the expo, adding it had not been fully developed for...
...Additional reporting by Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong....
...Additional reporting by Nicole Liu in Hong Kong and Clive Cookson in London...
...It is being billed as the great unseen exhibition, showcasing a generation of artists — including Geng Jianyi, Yang Fudong, Liu Wei, Hu Jieming, Xu Zhen, Liang Yue, Chen Xiaoyun, Yang Zhenzhong and Xiang...
...Chen Zhen’s “Precipitous Parturition”, a dragon formed of bicycle parts, hangs at the top of the Guggenheim atrium, as if preparing to swoop down on visitors....
...“The anti-corruption campaign has gathered unstoppable momentum,” Tuo Zhen, a party congress spokesman, said on the eve of its opening....
...This is just one sign of a shift of buying by Chinese collectors, whether as deep-pocketed as Liu or with more modest budgets....
...“The market is not concentrated enough,” Wu Zhen, vice-minister of China’s food and drug administration, said last year, explaining the rationale for the policy....
...It even appointed Jean Liu’s cousin, Liu Zhen, as strategy chief of Uber China. Mr Clark said that may indicate that Uber had its eye on a merger very early on....
...In June, Liu Xiu-zhen opened a health store at the ferry terminal where people arrive from Xiamen, hoping to tap demand from Chinese tourists who do not trust medical products sold at home....
...“An artist has to be able to get someone to stop and look,” she says, Faced with Xu Zhen’s riff on religion and bondage or He Yunchang’s surgery-without-anaesthetic video, you certainly do that....
...Liu Yunshan, the party’s propaganda chief, said on Friday that the media must “better reflect the messages of the party and the government”....
...“We express strong dissatisfaction and determined opposition,” said Liu Weimin, a foreign ministry spokesman, at the weekend....
...Allowing segregated accounts to invest in commodities futures will encourage fund managers to develop products that generate absolute returns, says Liu Zhen, Guangzhou-based general manager of the index...
...Zhen Liu, head of index quantitative investment at E Fund Management, is bullish on the outlook: “I wouldn’t be surprised if in two to three years we see multiple billion dollar hedge funds.”...
...Sans picks Cao Fei, Chu Yun, Liu Wei, Qiu Zhijie, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong and Zheng Guogu as the artists under the age of 40 who are about to make a splash. Until February 28....
...The older woman, whose similar machinations once led to great power, is coming to terms with her demons (personified by Peking Opera singer Zhen Jianhua)....
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