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...The strong performance was helped by Haitian’s nationwide distribution network, which covers more than 90 per cent of China’s 2,000 counties. Sun Yu 44....
...A new Scotland East division started trading on August 1, and two further new divisions — Eastern Counties and London partnerships — have been approved....
...In the city of Zibo, neighbouring Zouping, local Chen Hao, 41, says: “I don’t think KFC is that healthy. I will only buy it if I’m in a rush.”...
...His windswept county on the Canada border is at the frontier of a shift in world food supply....
...A total of 41 default cases have hit China’s domestic debt markets in the year to mid-September, more than the previous two years combined, according to Wind Information, a Shanghai-based financial data...
...The plight of flood-prone areas has again been highlighted by this week’s deluges in Cumbria, which inundated an estimated 6,000 homes in the county....
...But the lengthy menu – which covers all the bases from congee to barbecue meats, via various poultry and seafood dishes, to a lengthy list of noodle soups – is good enough to warrant inspection in the cold...
...Tennessee is the conservative America that liberal outsiders have such a hard time understanding. The advertising hoardings pulse between “Biggest Breakfast in Town” and “In God We Trust”....
...But in 2001, realising that the relentless march of the Atlanta suburbs had driven the price of land in the area out of his reach, Durant discovered Grundy County, Tennessee....
...In a county so poor that about a fifth of the population lives below the poverty line, the bequest wasn’t good for much....
...the outcome rested on a relatively small number of counties in key battleground states - voters in specific target constituencies will be bombarded with election paraphernalia and big name politicians,...
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