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...Van Cleef & Arpels has employed the mechanical technique since the 1910s, to “spark an intense whirlwind of light that captivates the gaze”, says the maison’s CEO and president Nicolas Bos....
...Gucci, JW Anderson and Dries Van Noten all luxuriated in this happy hue. Were designers simply all feeling optimistic, or is there more to the consensus than coincidence?...
...So Van Cleef & Arpels devotees might mix a Perlée bangle, its silky gold ribbon with beaded edges, either plain or dotted with diamond Alhambra clovers, with an Alhambra chain bracelet....
...The sanctuary of the van Es household lasted for just over a year, before Lien was moved on....
...During a break at a December 8 economic seminar in Hanoi, he could be seen plugging FPT and Vietnam’s tech industry as a whole to multinational executives, including Wouter Van Wersch, CEO of GE Asean....
...“They live where they can in places where they find themselves tolerated,” says Doan, herself a trans woman....
...Lawrence van Hagen, the adviser and collector behind the show, has paired new artists with their more established counterparts to show that their work stacks up....
...Sol LeWitt, Martin Parr, Dr Lakra and more, to May 25, barbican.org.uk Bosse & Baum, ‘Congregation’, Chloe Dewe Mathews, May 21-June 21, bosseandbaum.com Copperfield, ‘Abstracts’, Antony Cairns, Tiane Doan...
...“July’s sharp 1.5 per cent fall in industrial production is a clear reminder that, while the eurozone economy has left recession behind, the return to growth is fragile,” said Martin van Vliet of ING....
...Fish farmer Doan Van Vuon was jailed last week for five years for shooting at police and local officials when they tried to confiscate his land near the northern port city of Haiphong last year....
...Late on Friday, Dung unveiled the outcome of an unusually speedy investigation into the case of Doan Van Vuon, a farmer whose family deployed a shotgun and improvised explosive devices to fight back against...
...When around 100 police and local officials came to seize their land outside the northern port city of Haiphong, the family of farmer Doan Van Vuon was ready and waiting, with shotguns in hand and improvised...
...Although he has received offers of well over a million dollars for it, Doan Ngoc Minh has refused to sell his half-built, nine-storey house on a quiet street in the city centre....
...These “second-lien” mortgages should take losses first, in theory. But the holders of such debts have not always agreed to absorb hits before “first lien” mortgage holders....
...Providers of these so-called ‘second-lien’ mortgages should, in theory, take losses before the first-lien does....
...Providers of these so-called “second-lien” mortgages should, in theory, take losses before the first-lien does....
...These second-lien loans are mostly owned by banks, which also own the mortgage servicers....
...Additional reporting by Aline van Duyn in New York...
...The government may be hard-pressed to find buyers for assets that are backed by second-lien home mortgages even if it offers to finance the purchases with 99 cents of debt for each penny invested, one banker...
...Instead it uses asset-based lending, second lien and mezzanine debt. But in many cases, banks are still reluctant to write off enough debt to make a deal viable, says Mr Dougall....
...The founders of Gateway Securities include Doan Van An, a businessman with links to PetroVietnam, the state oil company....
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