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...Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony McCammon, Switzerland Crossword 16,135: Neil McIndoe, London; Julian Cooke, London; Ashley Witts, Vancouver Polymath 1,016: Amy De Jesus, Hong...
...(WSJ) Beijing will have its revenge on Hong Kong The Chinese phrase qiu hou suan zhang is literally translated as “to balance the books after the autumn harvest”....
...The parent company L Brands is planning to announce her resignation officially on Monday, when it releases its next quarterly earnings....
...It made Kai the richest man in his home province of Liaoning....
...Hong Kong’s Kwok family, which controls Sun Hung Kai Properties, is ranked third with a net wealth of $40.4bn....
...China did not have homegrown international-level photographers, stylists or models, and understood little about how they worked....
...Earnings ACS Q2 €0.56 (€0.51) Bank of China Rmb0.54 (Rmb0.50) Bumi FY (H1 estimate) -19.47p (-13.62) Carrefour FY (Q2 not available) €1.40 (€1.35) Hays FY 5.02p (5.37p) Evraz FY (H1 estimate) $2.15...
...Her father, a colonel in the army of Chiang Kai-shek, the Guomindang leader, came to Taiwan in 1947....
...Stravinsky’s clarinet pieces, incidentally, were written for Werner Reinhart, the original patron of L’histoire....
...says one diner I come across reeling out of L’Eléphant in a burgundy-fuelled daze....
...At GT Capital, he recalls, “I experienced a situation where each local office with its local P&L had other incentives to recommend a weighting in its domestic market than a purely objective one”....
...London followed Wall Street higher in response to Xerox’s $6.4bn bid for ACS....
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