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...Founded by billionaire restaurateur Zhang Yong in 1994, Haidilao is fashionable among Chinese consumers and known for its spicy soup base and gimmicks such as dancing chefs preparing hand-pulled noodles...
...Founded by billionaire restaurateur Zhang Yong as a small hotpot shop in southwestern Sichuan province in 1994, Haidilao has grown rapidly with hundreds of new outlets opening each year as Chinese diners...
...“Many Chinese businesses are manufacturing intermediate goods, which we mainly export,” Rhee Chang-yong, the governor of the Bank of Korea, told lawmakers in May....
...Ho Thi Thu Uyen has been with Intel since it entered Vietnam in 2006, becoming the first Vietnamese senior manager at the US company, one of Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest exporters....
...Tae Yong-ho says he was 14 years old when he first began to comprehend the true cruelty of the songbun, Kim Il Sung’s class system....
...Samsung was forced to cut production at one of its consumer electronics factories in Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month while its smartphone production was also disrupted....
...Tae Yong-ho’s lunch interview with the FT (“Defector Tae Yong-ho: ‘A very small spark could topple Kim Jong Un’”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, February 13) provided great insights into Kim Jong Un’s North Korea...
...“This is a historic moment for Asia,” said Ho Kwon Ping, chief executive of Banyan Tree Group....
...“The financial crisis convinced policymakers that there was a limit to what could be achieved through the manufacture of physical goods,” says Yong Kwon of the Korea Economic Institute of America....
...Suh Ki-ho, a former judge and progressive politician, says the light sentence handed to Lee showed “tycoons are still above the law”, while the Korea Enterprises Federation says business was “gravely concerned...
...South Korean prosecutors are seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Lee Jae-yong, Samsung’s vice-chairman, who is facing retrial on charges of bribery....
...Mr Ryu’s escape follows the defections of other diplomats including Jo Song Gil from Italy in 2018 and Tae Yong Ho from the UK in 2016....
...No one knows what kinds of penalties are given to his family,” said Thae Yong Ho, a former North Korean diplomat in the UK who defected in 2016....
...(FT) Lunch with the FT: North Korean defector Tae Yong-ho “A very small spark” is all it would take to topple Kim Jong Un, the former North Korean diplomat told Edward White over lunch in South Korea, where...
...Ri Yong Ho, the country’s foreign minister since 2016 who has played a central role in relations with Washington, has been replaced by Ri Son Gwon, a top official known for taking a hard line approach on...
...Cathay had about HK$25bn (US$3.2bn) in cash, Mr Yong said....
...Members of South Korea’s business community, including Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, lined up on Monday to pay tribute to Shin in Seoul....
...When Bong Joon-ho lept on to the stage to pick up the best picture Oscar for his dark comedy Parasite, South Koreans watching at home brimmed with pride....
...Further underscoring the vibrancy of democratic process in the country, Thae Yong Ho, a former top North Korean diplomat and high-profile defector, is vying to enter parliament....
...Underscoring the vibrancy of South Korean democracy, Thae Yong Ho, a former senior North Korean diplomat and high-profile defector won a seat in Seoul’s Gangnam district....
...Thae Yong Ho, a former senior North Korean diplomat in Europe and the UK, has questioned whether even Beijing, which has much closer ties with Pyongyang, knows much about Mr Kim’s illness....
...Thae Yong Ho, a former senior North Korean diplomat and high-profile defector, suggested that despite Kim Pyong Il’s long absence, he loomed as a challenger, favoured by senior officials....
...Chung Hyun-ho, president of Samsung Electronics, was summoned for questioning on Tuesday over his suspected role in covering up the alleged 2015 fraud, state news agency Yonhap reported....
...Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK and one of the most senior officials to have defected from the regime, said “legal loopholes” had enabled North Korean labourers to continue...
...Thae Yong Ho, North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to the UK and one of the most senior officials to have defected from the regime, questioned whether Mr Trump was “serious” about ending North Korea’s...
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