Hints and tips:
...You can’t just buy a topper and say ‘now I sleep on a Hästens’,” says James Aschberger, Hästens’ chief marketing officer....
...encapsulate the concerns that South Koreans have about China: that it doesn’t respect Korean national identity or autonomy, that it doesn’t share their values and that it doesn’t play by the rules,” said J James...
...Hi all — James here in Hong Kong. The China electric vehicle story only gets more interesting....
...“People weren’t travelling to view,” says James MacDonald, head of Savills research in China. “Business started to resume at the end of February.”...
...Vanessa Koo, head of banking in Asia-Pacific at Barclays, said multinational companies “are adjusting their strategies in China through partial of full exits....
...Vanessa Koo has been appointed head of banking for Asia Pacific at Barclays based in Hong Kong. She will retain her role as head of banking for greater China....
...James Connor joins the firm from Simpson Thacher while Daniel Wayte arrives from Milbank....
...Kumho Asiana Group lost its controlling stake in Kumho Tire in 2009 during the global financial crisis, but its chairman Park Sam-koo was allowed to keep overseeing the company and was given a priority right...
...The deal took place under then chief executive Koos Bekker, now the group’s chairman. His Babylonstoren wine estate outside Cape Town is signposted in Afrikaans and Mandarin....
...In Seoul, Mr Mattis is expected to meet his South Korean counterpart Han Min-koo to discuss the threat from North Korea, officials say....
...On the list were Lee Byung-kee, Ms Park’s chief of staff, Huh Tae-yeol and Kim Ki-choon, his two predecessors, Lee Wan-koo, the prime minister, and Hong Moon-jong, a lawmaker who managed the 2012 election...
...Bring in Nomura’s Richard Koo, the man who literally wrote the book on the Japanese experience....
...Now, Richard Koo, Nomura’s chief economist, might argue a bit differently on the Japan 1998 point, we suspect. Koo also talked Japanese bank recapitalisations in a recent note on the eurozone....
...But as Richard Koo of Nomura Research has argued, fiscal deficits help the private sector deleverage. That is precisely what is happening in the US and UK....
...Economists like Richard Koo and Ken Rogoff talk of “balance sheet recessions” and a “second great contraction” as if they are entirely unfamiliar developments....
...I will write more about the role of high levels of inequality in causing the recent crisis in a future paper (James Montier has passed me some interesting papers)....
...Koo goes unconventional on China – FT Alphaville Fate of China property a global concern – FT As wages rise in China, companies fret – NYT...
...James Sheu and Charles Lo, trusted lieutenants who have been with Chinatrust for decades, have taken over as president of the holding company and chairman of the flagship bank, respectively....
...James been Clive James may have fled Australia for the old country back in 1961 but the London-based critic, novelist and all-round man of letters remains one of Sydney’s favourite sons....
...Steve Wynn’s Wynn Resorts and James Packer’s Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd are also building casinos in Macao....
...Koo Bon-joon, LG Philips LCD’s chief executive, said: “During the fourth quarter, LCD TV panel demand was strong as consumers are rapidly recognising LCD technology as ‘the’ flat TV technology of choice....
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