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...Chips spy: Once called a “master of semiconductor yield”, Choi Jin-seok now faces possible jail time after being accused of stealing Samsung’s technology to build a copycat chip plant in China....
...After seeing Qin Gang, China’s foreign minister, in Beijing on Tuesday, Musk met Jin Zhuanglong, the industry minister and an aerospace expert, and Wang Wentao, commerce minister....
...One line, in translation, reads: “The ashes of burnt books had not yet faded away but the Qin dynasty was already weak.”...
...According to Chae Yi-bai, a former lawmaker, data he received from the justice ministry shows Lee met with lawyers 439 times during the 353 days he last spent in jail....
...Xu Jin at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing thinks it will be a “breakthrough” event for the Chinese leader....
...homophone for “clear wind”, which evokes the image of an honest government official who never takes bribes; the translucent fatty pork and green chives inside the dumplings are described as yi qing er bai...
...There is an old Chinese saying: “Sa yi jin bai”. It means kill one to deter hundreds of others....
...By contrast, Guo Wenjing’s opening Folk Song Suite for string orchestra, and particularly his bamboo flute concerto Chou Kong Shan, a colourful symphonic portrait of Tang dynasty poet Li Bai’s descriptions...
...Equally revealing is “Court Ladies in the Inner Palace” (1465-1509) by Ming-dynasty painter Du Jin....
...“North Korea has a right to the peaceful use of space, but this right has been restricted by UN Security Council resolutions,” Qin Gang, a foreign ministry spokesman, said in a statement....
...Yip ended up sharing credit for set design with Han Jiang, and the “script” was credited to both Liu Jie and Bangni Bai....
...Jin has distinguished himself primarily as an opera composer (the Shanghai Opera House is to revive his 1994 King of Chu in late May for the Shanghai Expo) and his Qin, Se, Po for pipa and orchestra is filled...
...Immediately arresting are Zhang Huan’s kinetic sculpture of a donkey raping a model of Shanghai’s symbolic skyscraper, the Jin Mao (“Golden Prosperity”) Tower; Shen Shaomin’s genetically modified metre-high...
...The US report raised concerns about China’s growing nuclear capability, including its expansion of mobile land-based ballistic missiles, and missiles for launch from a new Jin-class submarine....
...The episodic libretto, created by Dun together with the novelist Ha Jin, favours rumination over momentum....
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