Hints and tips:
...The campaign’s aim is to a) ensure the recent arrivals know how to register, b) mobilise their vote to get political weight behind things Hongkongers care about, and c) signal to policymakers that they could...
...My favourite websites are Vice.com – the language is direct and unfussy; and the fashion blog Stylebubble.co.uk, because Susie Lau is so positive and eloquent....
...Meanwhile, the adagio from Schubert’s String Quintet in C was dismally reproduced via the Wells’s excruciating sound system....
...High profile incidents and debates during C Y Leung’s administration have contributed to the fragility of freedom of the press....
...Kerry Brown, professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, says Chinese investment to the UK made up just 0.1 per cent of total foreign investment up to the...
...●F&C has boosted its liability-driven investing team with the appointment of Marius Penderis from the Royal Bank of Scotland as senior LDI structurer....
...“It is a present from the economist Larry Lau who was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. When I gave a speech, he gave me this scroll made by his grandfather who wrote it out....
...Laurence Lau, head of the Hong Kong office of China Investment Corp, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, told reporters on Thursday: “US Treasuries are safe investments, and the US government will pay back...
...Steve Sun, a principal in Goldman’s private equity firm in Hong Kong, is set to join TPG’s China group alongside Sing Wang, also a former Goldman executive, and Ricky Lau....
...However, in their haste to kow-tow to Washington, Swiss officials missed the fact that the agreement, forcing UBS to break its obligation of confidentiality towards its clients, was illegal back home....
...Additional reporting by Christian Oliver and Justine Lau...
...Reporting by Alan Beattie, Kevin Brown, Peter Garnham, Jonathan Wheatley, Song Jung-a and Justine Lau...
...C.C. Tung, OOIL’s chairman, said the outlook for 2009 and 2010 remained “challenging”....
...An important requisite for the workplace, according to Martin Lau, lecturer at SOAS School of Law in London: “Increasingly, employers are looking for more particular skills,” he says....
...In December, the company completed the C$629m (US$630m) takeover of Trans Alta Power in its first foray into Canada....
...Solar Shine); City of Seattle, Washington (Green Building; Green Factor); Enterprise Community Partners (Green Communities); Forest City (Roadmap to Intrinsic Sustainability); Gale International/POSCO E&C/...
...“My God, I have never killed a communist, but [Chinese government officials] still can’t talk to us,” Ms Lau says....
...“It’s all those c-words,” he says, “citizenship, community, conversation, customers – you actually get less of them. Do the guys from Google [Sergey Brin and Larry Page] blog?...
...PCCW shocked the world in 2000 when it launched a cash-and-shares bid for C&W Hongkong Telecom, the territory’s telecoms incumbent....
...It is the middle tiers – the B, C and D firms – that will lose out,” Mr Kennedy said....
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