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...Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh, south-east Asia’s best-connected port to North America, runs 19 services a week....
...Chen exemplifies not just the city’s recovery but also a shift in Macau’s clientele from high rollers to mass-market gamblers....
...Chen’s case is set for a preliminary inquiry before a magistrate next week....
...China-US flight volumes increased last year, from 10 per cent of 2019 levels in October to about 20 per cent last month, said Chen Xin, head of China leisure and transport research at UBS....
...“It’s definitely interesting,” said Nicholas Chen, an analyst at CreditSights in Singapore....
...“They can fully comply, or partially comply with, or ignore,” Chen added. “Partial compliance usually means you block something only for local users”, which is known as “geo-blocking”....
...“Our collaboration with [an] Indian supplier that began in 2023 works very well and now they want more models and more volume,” said Acer Chairman Jason Chen....
...March 22 to 24; further information and tickets here Sport Hong Kong Lacrosse Open 2024, HKU Stanley Ho Sports Centre One of Asia’s most anticipated and high-stakes sports tournaments....
...In a letter dated November 8 and seen by the Financial Times, Chen and doctors Li Jiayuan and Wang Chuan wrote that the programme could lead to “an overuse of medical resources, growing public panic and...
...“There was a lot of optimism in 2021 . . . when we thought we were heading back to pre-pandemic levels,” said Lei David Chen, a Hangzhou-based film producer with studio Versatile Media....
...“Financing through the capital market is a self-rescue behaviour for these enterprises,” said Chen Wei, partner at the law firm Commerce & Finance, which advised Air China on the placement....
...that Beijing was increasingly anti-business and anti-private wealth was “the main reason for the migration of Chinese billionaires from mainland or Hong Kong to Singapore and other places”, said Zhiwu Chen...
...They don’t dare to go all in on China anymore,” said Chen....
...Jessi Chen “had the best time” when she held her bachelorette party with about 50 friends during a “cruise-to-nowhere” trip in Hong Kong a year ago....
...That consideration led to Chen’s release....
...Xinran Andy Chen, a senior analyst at China consultancy Trivium, said Beijing had realised Hong Kong lacked the necessary conditions to keep pursuing the same zero-Covid strategy — including the local units...
...Additional reporting by Chan Ho-him in Hong Kong...
...“If it is still this low in summer, we are in trouble,” said Ho, adding that vaccines alone were not enough to help build herd immunity....
...Chen estimated that Shimao would raise about Rmb25bn from asset sales, which should be enough to manage upcoming maturities. The company’s future depends on confidence being restored, said Chen....
...“Common prosperity should be taken seriously in Hong Kong as well,” said Chen Zhiwu, a finance professor at the University of Hong Kong....
...Pou Chen stopped production at a Ho Chi Minh City factory, its largest in the country, on July 14, and said the plant would remain closed until at least August 9....
...“Taiyo is able to retain an 80 to 85 per cent capacity utilisation under the 60 per cent operation rate,” Chen added....
...Taiwan’s Pou Chen, the world’s leading contract shoemaker, suspended production at its biggest site in Vietnam, near Ho Chi Minh City, from July 14, citing difficulty sheltering 56,000 employees on-site....
...Chen said Taiwan had been lumped under Greater China in that agreement. Although Chen did not name China, another Taiwanese senior government official said China was behind stalling the deal....
...“They want absolute control,” said Ho-Fung Hung, a China scholar at Johns Hopkins University....
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