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...Director Michael Brand last year compared it to a lotus rising out of a muddy pond....
...Local farms provide head chef Michael Smith with ingredients such as pears, okra and pumpkin, but limited variety from Hong Kong producers means that at times he sources from around the region....
...“Prices will be weak until domestic restrictions are relaxed and borders reopen,” said Michael Wu, an analyst at Morningstar....
...At the time the bank said the move would save it a significant amount of money and was part of chief executive Michael Corbat’s drive to make the lender smaller and simpler. Citi declined to comment....
...“It is going to get pretty ugly . . . because China is such a big player,” said Michael Moloney, head of direct sourcing....
...The building has been something of a pet project for Henderson Land’s owner Lee Shau-kee and his eldest grandchild, Kristine Li, the deputy general manager of its leasing business....
...And the total price was dwarfed by the record £1.3bn sale of London’s “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper to Lee Kum Kee, the Hong Kong oyster sauce maker, in July....
...Elsewhere on Friday, - Full transcript of disappeared HK bookseller Lam Wing-kee’s opening statement at his Hong Kong press conference. - Are negative rates a “calamitous misadventure”?...
...Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said Mr Najib would be keen to use his Friday meeting with Mr Obama to relieve the “enormous pressure” he is under...
...Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said: “This will probably be the biggest demonstration in Malaysian history....
...The storm of pressures, including policies that favour the majority Malay population, are leaving Mr Najib’s enemies “more and more encouraged”, says Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast...
...Ooi Kee Beng, deputy director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said: “Scandals do not fell top politicians in Malaysia, as a rule....
...Luís Figo, the former professional footballer, and Michael van Praag, the president of the Dutch football association, said they would not run against Mr Blatter, who is widely expected to win the vote next...
...Photographs: Paul Kasmin Gallery; Gillman Barracks; Leslie Kee/Mujin-To Production; Andre Tei Photography...
...Siu Kee Chan, an investment manager at ING Investment Management, adds that the “plumbing issues” should mark “the start of a move back to basics” for ETFs. But are the problems overblown?...
...Open Europe, the think-tank, has supporters such as Jardine Matheson’s Lord Leach of Fairford and Michael Dobson, chief executive of Schroders....
...For Michael Peng, of the excellent Hunan restaurant in Pimlico, part of the problem is that Chinese is a far more direct language than English....
...rahul.jacob@ft.com Michael Skapinker is away...
...Five years ago, for the Kee anniversary, we rented a warehouse and an amphitheatre to host a party for 2,500 people....
...When Israeli designer Ron Arad took a section of Kee-Klamp scaffolding and welded to it a scrap yard seat from a Rover 200 car to create his first piece of furniture, the Rover Chair, he also defined a punkish...
...She and her husband Michael now reside in a 60-storey silver block that is flanked by iconic skyscrapers and sits directly above a luxury shopping mall, the train to the airport, the subway system, a cinema...
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