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...An Echo in the City by KX Song (Rock the Boat/Little, Brown) Against the backdrop of student protests in Hong Kong in 2019, love is a high-stakes game....
...Flanked on stage by the leaders of Chad, Sri Lanka and Rwanda, Tunisian president Kaïs Saïed was visibly angry during a discussion on special drawing rights with the IMF, moderated by Spain’s deputy prime...
...Another glassblower, Matthew Hall, creates the vessels for Curionoir’s signature candles (from about £50), which have a cult following and are sold at retailers including Liberty and Browns in London and...
...“We might see some recovery in US IPOs from Chinese companies, but it’s hard to envision flows returning to their prime,” said Zhan Kai, a Shanghai-based senior counsel at Chinese law firm Yuanda....
...I was dazzled by his set with Rio Kai, an outstanding double-bass player. Also look out for the Phil Dawson Trio, who play Afro- and Brazilian jazz meets dub, and spiritual jazz-rock....
...The success could open a commercial route to more accurate and deeper underground investigation and mapping than is possible with existing technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, said Professor Kai...
...Sen recalls visitors to the ashram included Eleanor Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and, of course, Mohandas Gandhi, who was murdered by a Hindu nationalist....
...He is professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University and former chair of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles....
...later a shaft of ecclesiastical light – very often a triumphant rainbow – and suddenly the mountains edging their way closer, glowing with a bluish-purple hue, when moments ago they were distant green and brown...
...Lignite, or brown coal, is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels and has long been a target for green campaigners....
...— karenykarl The Last Girl by Nadia Murad, Little, Brown, £9.99 The author won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize....
...It’s the smoked salmon on brown soda bread that you order as your pint of stout settles on the bar....
...Mayer Brown has hired Ameer Ahmad as a partner in the firm’s corporate and securities practice. Ahmad will be based in Chicago....
...Outside the courtroom the upbeat Thomas, in a brown suit and red tie, gave a thumbs-up and waved to relatives and supporters. But he showed signs of weariness....
...Its record low touched on December 2 could be breached, according to Win Thin, strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman, because of investor disappointment at the central bank’s latest decision....
...Kai Fischer’s set design is part dollhouse, part fish tank: the action takes place behind soundproof glass. What we hear is a dry commentary from a narrator (Elicia Daly) offstage....
...Another young artist often referred to as “post-internet”, Daniel Keller’s exhibition at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler imagines a relationship between Kai (fictional daughter of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook...
...Mr Li and Ma Kai, vice-premier, were the architects of a now discredited plan to rescue China’s stock markets in early July, when the government rolled out a series of unprecedented measures to prop up plunging...
...Yet in their gripping book, Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper argue that Tibet’s powerful myth still poses a serious problem for Beijing....
...They trace those ideas through early 20th-century thinkers such as Liang Qichao through to Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong and Deng himself....
...Mitter, professor of Chinese history and politics at Oxford university, is especially strong on Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist regime....
...Or the equally colourful fight within Hong Kong’s Kwok family over who should run Sun Hung Kai Properties, one of the world’s most valuable property companies....
...In Hong Kong, The Wings, developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties and managed by the InterContinental Hotels Group, will open next year and consist of six buildings with 1,028 apartments....
...Kevin Brown is the FT’s Asia regional correspondent based in Singapore kevin.brown@ft.com...
...Additional reporting by Kevin Brown in Singapore...
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