Hints and tips:
...“It is more difficult for smaller or regional airlines to raise capital, so we may see more cases of mergers and acquisitions coming,” said Joanna Lu, Asia head at Cirium....
...Yajie, a 21-year-old medical student who spent two months working for the local health commission of Lu’an, a city of 4mn in Anhui province, received a subsidy of Rmb100 per day as well as room and board...
...But it remains to be seen how much stomach the government will have for the likely economic costs,” Arthur Kroeber and Rosealea Yao, Beijing-based analysts from Gavekal Dragonomics, a consultancy, wrote...
...Chen, Chinese economy analyst, KGI Asia Ltd; Veasna Kong, assistant director and economist, Moody’s Analytics; Robin Xing, chief China economist, Morgan Stanley; Xiaochen Fan, director, MUFG Bank; Ting Lu...
...Shen Ching-kai, a campaign leader for the Olympics name change, had hoped the referendum would be a step towards Taiwanese independence but said the government had to “fight back” against China’s “bullying...
...Wùshìrénfēi was scheduled to open at 859 Tian Yao Qiao Road, Shanghai, on September 4 1999. But, on the day of the opening, it was abruptly shuttered by the Chinese authorities....
...Kai, the enigmatic schoolboy, forms a band with a kooky blonde and a well-meaning weirdo....
...Kai-Fu Lee, as well as from the country’s largest internet portal, Tencent....
...“We greatly appreciate the positive attitude from the US side towards the issue relating to ZTE,” said Lu Kang, chief spokesman for China’s foreign ministry....
...In response to passage of the act, Lu Kang, chief spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said it “sends out wrong signals to ‘pro-independence’ separatist forces in Taiwan”....
...The poster child for the turtles is Qi Lu, formerly of Microsoft and now running Baidu....
...“It was designed by a famous Taiwanese architect, Kris Yao, and is the complete opposite of the Taipei museum,” he says....
...Baoneng’s chairman, Yao Zhenhua, appears to have no such “princeling” pedigree....
...To his credit, NSO music director Shao-Chia Lü was faithful to both Schoenbergs, rendering the Wagnerian depth of the opening section with almost Debussy-like transparency while letting the later portions...
...From SocGen’s Wei Yao Don’t mind bank lending, credit growth is still slowing in China From UBS’s Wang Tao: Don’t worry about aggressive credit tightening From BoFAML’s Lu Ting: Now you know the People...
...Lan runs the place with Lü Zhongyu, his wife and sous-chef, and six employees. The restaurant opened quietly in August 2011 and its fame has spread among food-lovers in China, Hong Kong and Japan....
...Here are some charts from Societe Generale’s Wei Yao: Interestingly, property construction weakened, although Yao says the sharp drop in August (year-on-year property starts fell 20 per cent, compared to...
...Wei Yao of SocGen points out that, unusually, all the sub-indices moved in a positive direction. The input price component rose sharply to 50.1 from 44.6....
...Ting Lu of Bank of America Merrill Lynch says the only market participants that might notice any difference in their borrowing costs would be a handful of large state owned enterprises – ie those already...
...BAML’s Ting Lu admitted that there were “downside risks” to the bank’s Q2 growth forecast of 8.1 per cent, while RBS stuck to its expectation of flat growth for this quarter....
...Over to Ting Lu at BofAML for the less optimistic take and an interesting note on the change in language which got others so worked up (any Chinese speaking readers, do feel free to weigh in on this one)...
...Societe Generale’s Wei Yao charted the Taiwan-China data (Chinese exports): Wei also notes that while Hong Kong has not published its April data, the reported export growth of 57.2 per cent reported by...
...BAML’s Lu Ting, more bullish than Zhang on 2013 GDP, makes a similar point. Societe Generale’s Wei Yao expects the official PMI to rise to 51 for March, from 50.1 in February....
...One is the deregulation of bill discount rates, which have long been determined in interbank markets anyway, according to BAML’s Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi....
...Societe Generale’s Wei Yao says inflation targets “usually mark the trigger point for policy tightening”: in other words, don’t expect loosening if the rate falls below the target....
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