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...Phoebe Gao, from shoemaker UT Footwear in China’s southern coastal Fujian province, said some manufacturers were pivoting to offer higher-end products and improved services to compete with “basic styles”...
...At this point they become what Gao calls lüju, meaning people who are still exploring but moving towards a more fulfilled state....
...Dora Gao, a 30-year-old married finance worker in Shanghai, said she did not feel confident enough in her financial situation to raise a child....
...Additional reporting by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...“No one should really expect that China should cut off its access to Russian oil and gas,” said Victor Gao, vice-president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization....
...Data and visual journalism by Andy Lin in Hong Kong...
...After graduating, he joined talent agency JetStar Entertainment and returned to Taiwan to work as a model alongside Sphinx Ting, Lan Chun-Tien and Victor Chen. The group became known as “Fashion 4”....
...Concrete details of how the entity list will work in practice have yet to be released, Mr Gao said....
...However, Lin Gao, a climate policymaker at China’s top state planning body, admitted on Tuesday that there were still “problems” that needed to be fixed before the “very complex” scheme could be implemented...
...Lan Qing Lin drops into a fighting pose and throws punches in time to the instructor’s rhythm....
...Lin Feng, chief executive of DealGlobe, which advised Chinese tycoon Gao Jisheng on the £200m acquisition of English Premier League side Southampton, says the government was spooked by the high capital outflows...
...Additional reporting by Luna Lin...
...Additional reporting by Wan Li and Luna Lin...
...Gao Fu, vice-director of the China Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, says that if the epidemic in Africa continues, it is “just a matter of time” before China has its first Ebola case....
...More recently Lin Dong, a labour activist, was arrested for spreading rumours online while advising some of the more than 40,000 workers on strike in southern China....
...Emma Gao, a designer, explains how the Japanese Landscape Plate is crafted from a slab of porcelain....
...Lin Dong, another labour activist who attempted to help tens of thousands of striking workers at a Taiwanese shoe factory in Guangdong, was released on bail last month....
...My final meal after two days in Singapore consisted of chicken rice, steamed rice cakes and a mug of kopi gao, thick coffee with condensed milk....
...In the past two years he has struck joint ventures with high-profile Hollywood filmmakers such as Avi Arad, the Iron Man producer and Justin Lin, the director of Fast & Furious 6....
...Lin Zhe, a professor at the Central Party School in Beijing, says: “We will definitely have fully competitive elections even for our top leaders including the party secretary-general eventually.”...
...Additional reporting by Eliot Gao...
...Additional reporting Eliot Gao...
...And there were plenty of physical moments in the match, as when New Zealand’s Ryan Nelson challenged Gao Lin for the ball (left)....
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