Hints and tips:
...Li Qiang, the premier, goes off to Davos and makes the kind of speech one makes at Davos....
...Local social media platforms are now trending with phrases such as xin zhong shi (neo-Chinese style) and lao qianfeng (old-money aesthetic)....
...BYD has forayed into India, Laos and Jordan in recent weeks and chose Thailand for its first wholly invested passenger car plant outside China last month....
...Safepad is currently distributed in 10 countries across Africa and Asia, including Laos and Bangladesh....
...Li is part of a volunteer network of Chinese businessmen living in Cambodia....
...Li Chenggang, China’s deputy commerce minister, on Wednesday said that legal checks on RCEP documents had already been completed in what he called a “milestone” agreement that would “revive confidence in...
...China’s premier Li Keqiang described the agreement as “a victory of multilateralism and free trade”, according to a report from the official Xinhua news agency....
...Mr Li eventually flew back to Hong Kong in August. But 250,000 people are believed still to be marooned in similar situations....
...They have since convinced eight other countries — ranging from Australia and Canada to Laos and Nauru — to sign the pledge as well....
...[Now] you need fierce competition to get these opportunities,” Ms Li said....
...SenseTime wants to develop self-driving cars with Honda and sell them globally, according to Lao Shihong, chief executive of the company’s Japan unit....
...But Laos or Cambodia? The regulations and legal infrastructure, human capital . . . not there”, Mr Maidment observes....
...In an LMC summit in January, Premier Li Keqiang promised that China will provide Rmb7bn ($1.08bn) in loans, adding to the Rmb10bn already promised....
...“Sihanoukville Port is a symbolic project for us,” said Masayoshi Takehara, JICA’s director overseeing Cambodia and Laos....
...But with Laos’ small population and economy, little of this trade would stay in Laos and Laos would ship very little to China on the railway.”...
...Barack Obama, US president, and Li Keqiang, China’s premier, also weighed in as the meeting in the Laos capital of Vientiane reached its climax, underscoring the obstacles to quelling tensions over Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Wan Li...
...Its power generation business in Laos, Japan and China, as well as a shale gas business in the US that was launched last year, helped raise its profit....
...These include the 427km China-Laos railway and the 329km Ethiopian national railway....
...Cases have since been detected in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos....
...As of late April, the guest list for Tokyo’s G7 so-called “outreach summit” included Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Chad....
...This leaves Pakistan, North Korea and Russia, along with Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, which receive military aid from China....
...Niu established family foundation Lao Niu in 2004, which he funded by donating all of his shares and most of his dividends when Mengniu went public....
...VimpelCom announced earlier this year plans to sell its smallest operations in Zimbabwe and Laos....
...Attention is drawn to Li Hejun’s first big business breakthrough: building the giant Jinanqiao hydroelectric dam in Yunnan province bordering Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam....
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