Hints and tips:
...“It won’t be a problem if a couple of big developers go under,” said Bo Zhuang, a Singapore-based analyst at Loomis Sayles, an asset manager....
...From street food at Chatuchak Market (above) to high-end restaurants such as Bo.lan and Gaggan , you can eat your heart out — you just have to know where to look....
...Stir-fried Chinese broccoli (gai lan) with ginger Refreshing bright green colour, stir-fried dish, brisk crunchy mouthfeel....
...— For a mix of local and international cuisine, ask for the Burmese menu at Father’s Office on Bo Aung Kyaw Street....
...“This case sets a new precedent for market manipulation,” said Wang Bo, director of private equity research at Noah Holdings, a wealth management consultancy in Shanghai....
...“There isn’t any organised movement against Xi or any real threat for him, in my view” said Bo Zhuang, chief China economist for TS Lombard....
...— While working as a chef in Bangkok at Thai restaurant Bo.lan, I found a city where eating late is closer to being the rule than the exception, with a dizzying wealth of late-night options to choose from...
...Both sides are honing a strategy first practised during the last Communist party leadership transition five years ago, when the downfall of populist rising star Bo Xilai made clear how media leaks can be...
...Other tycoons have been convicted of financial and other crimes, including Xu Xiang, a billionaire investor who led a group of hedge funds called the “Limit-up Kamikaze Squad” and was jailed for five-and-a-half...
...Even the generous cost estimates developed by Ms Lan of Renmin University do not include compensation for lost harvests....
...Local aficionados rate Lan as an exceptional talent, on a par with his only real rival in Chengdu, Yu Bo....
...Xiang Huaicheng, former finance minister, had previously estimated that local government debts could exceed Rmb20tn....
...One April evening in the Sichuanese capital Chengdu, chef Yu Bo and his wife invited me for supper. They insisted that we ate spring rolls, which were then in season....
...She was speaking at the Bo’ao business forum in southern China on Sunday....
...The most exciting local cultural news is that Danish-Vietnamese jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky has just returned from 30 years abroad in Paris and New York and has got the city buzzing as this month he will...
...His wife, Zi Lan Liao, sat playing the guzheng, a plucked zither. Clive Bell played Chinese pipes. Dub and Chinese music proved a perfect mixture....
...Nomad, which also has contracts with Virgin Trains and the Heathrow Express, is this year moving into China, where it has appointed Xiang Bo to drive sales in the region....
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