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...“Credit card penetration ranges from 3% to 6% and financial inclusion has a lot of room to grow,” Cao said....
...This fermented tofu, dou fu ru or mei dou fu, is made by encouraging certain fluffy moulds to grow on cubes of tofu, and then either rolling the cubes in salt and spices or immersing them in brine....
...Citizen journalists Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin were also taken away by police around the same time....
...In a recent interview, Chen Mei-Ling, minister of Taiwan’s National Development Council, told Nikkei that more than 40 companies across a range of sectors have expressed a willingness to move some production...
...Mr Fang and Mr Mei have a long history of doing deals together, and their relationship has had a “chilling effect” on PE firms’ bids, according to one specialist who looked at the offer....
...The insider bid involves a consortium led by Mr Mei, Fang Fenglei — who is a director of GLP — and his private equity firm Hopu Investment Management, along with a fund that manages money for Alibaba’s Jack...
...However, private equity groups are concerned that an insider bid led by GLP’s chief executive Ming Mei with a consortium that includes dealmaker Fang Fenglei will make other submissions pointless, according...
...That bid is led by GLP’s chief executive Ming Mei who is working with a consortium that includes a who’s who of China Inc: Fang Fenglei, a director of GLP, along with funds associated with Alibaba’s Jack...
...Hopu’s bid is also backed by Beijing-based fund Hillhouse Capital Management and GLP’s chief executive Ming Mei, according to two other people familiar with the situation....
...Librettist Wan Fang (daughter of the original playwright) manages to distil large stretches of the story into terse nuggets, which Jin sets in often heart-rending terms....
...However, he is best known for hosting Cao Cao Lai Le (Here Comes Cao Cao) on Beijing TV, where he asks people to do stupid things on camera, and for his romantic role in the popular TV series Beijing Aiqing...
...Fang Cao Di is a highly competitive academic school, drawing students from numerous countries....
...Fang Lu, a video artist from Guangzhou, is part of a new generation that has had the opportunity of studying overseas but her work remains firmly rooted in the energy of the city....
...Ranging from 56-year-old Wang Du – whose long-established base in Paris sets him slightly apart from the others – to 30-year-old Cao Fei, these artists share their experience as witnesses to the extraordinary...
...But clinic founder Man-fang Mei says that as the fungus’s price rises, many of his patients can no longer afford it. “It’s becoming scarce in supply,” he says....
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