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...Wang Ya-june didn’t think much of the town where she washed up in the autumn of 1949....
...David Chao, global market strategist for Asia Pacific ex-Japan at Invesco, said investors would be tempted to return to Chinese equities because “current valuations are way too bearish”....
...After a Palestinian gunman shot dead seven Israelis in the Neve Ya’akov settlement in January, Ben-Gvir — a settler previously convicted of inciting racism and supporting a terrorist organisation — pledged...
...Indeed, there are numerous English-language texts on the chaos and violence of 1966-76, the decade of internal factional struggles under Chairman Mao that killed around 2mn people — teachers bludgeoned to...
...“Over the past week, the overall Covid situation deteriorated considerably in China,” said Ting Lu, Nomura’s chief China economist....
...The word crops up plenty in ’90s West Coast hip-hop, for instance in Hussein Fatal’s verse on 2Pac’s Hit ’Em Up (“Spank ya, shank ya whole style when I gank”), or in the title of Hits II: Ganked & Gaffled...
...In it, Alameddine asks big questions about who is to blame for the refugee crisis and who gets to write about the lives of others — and he is willing to take his readers into confusion and chaos rather than...
...Ting Lu, Nomura’s top China economist, said Beijing’s latest changes marked neither an end to zero-Covid nor a road map to a new living-with-Covid strategy....
...David Chao, global markets strategist at Invesco, said the PMI data “could be an ominous sign for the upcoming monthly economic data”....
...“We expect land sales revenue to get much worse,” says Nomura’s Lu....
...But there are also signs of quiet frustration, and rare episodes of chaos and panic....
...Confucius’ birthplace was in the ancient state of Lu, hence the name....
...“Single mothers, my heart is bleeding for ya / these coward men, that were beating on ya,” Nas raps, before adding a defiant: “Never me!”...
...In 2010, she won the Lu Xun literary prize, one of China’s most prestigious awards....
...Headed by Bai Ya, a colourful character in China’s tech scene, Youzan and others such as Weimob are doing a roaring trade....
...— Bangkok’s latest district to be “discovered” is along the Chao Phraya river in the old city (above)....
...In London, the contemporary Chinese art specialist Hadrien de Montferrand has had a sellout show of works by Lu Chao (b1988), a graduate of Beijing’s influential Central Academy of Fine Arts, who now lives...
...Both houses are built on mythologies shored up by unquestioning allegiances, and the chaos that ensues leaves casualties on all sides....
...Amanda Chao, a normally cheerful 26-year-old interior designer, is typical of a younger generation concerned that Taiwan will be sucked in by its big, bullying neighbour. “I do worry,” she said....
...— Chao” (2016, Sundaram Tagore)....
...“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation in which every car is protected by Alarm.ly, ya-di-ya-da.” Trust me, you’ll go viral....
...Ya Ru Chen, a professor at Cornell who oversaw the creation of the dual degree programme, which takes 70 students a year, says: “We want to grab the most talented people in a fast-growing market....
...“The US is effectively in a state of anarchy,” says Lu Xiang at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences....
...— For shopping minus the chaos, head to House of Treasures Emporium (pictured below) for stunning interiors and trinkets all set out in a large colonial-era house....
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