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...A total of $117bn in commercial mortgages tied to US offices will come due this year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association....
...The online platforms have added capacity and lodging options beyond hotels and have brought people to lesser-known villages and rural areas....
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...Yan’s 2006 novel Dream of Ding Village is based on the Aids crisis in Henan, which erupted after Yan had left for the army....
...“The sea is where people find jobs,” said Yoshifumi Kai, councillor of the local fisheries association, noting the village is nearly surrounded by water and is ill-suited to agriculture....
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...He has convalesced in the US, France and from late 2016 in Thailand at one of his global network of Plum Villages near Khao Yai National Park....
...Total proven reserves of coal worldwide are estimated at 1.1tn tons — enough to last approximately 150 years at current rates of production, according to the World Coal Association....
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...The material was sent to be cut 270 miles away at New Balance’s factory in the Cumbrian village of Flimby, where a workforce of 270 turn out 700,000 pairs annually....
...Of India’s 1.2 billion population, more than 300 million (mainly urban, and upper or middle class) are internet users, according to the Internet and Mobile Association of India....
...And for China Inc as a whole, the news was even worse....
...There won’t be any once we all live in an electronic global village. izabella.kaminska@ft.com...
...The banks being represented are Umpqua Bank, Mutual Bank, Village Bank, CSE Federal Credit Union, and First Federal Savings of Lorain....
...While global film revenues inched up only 1 per cent between 2013 and 2014, China’s box office takings increased 34 per to $4.8bn over that period, according to the Motion Picture Association of America....
...Akbar Al Baker spoke up at the annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association, the trade body for global airlines, complaining about protectionism coming from certain parts of the US and Europe...
...At an occasionally fiery meeting in New York’s East Village, shareholders asked Citi to provide a detailed annual report on its lobbying activities, both direct and indirect....
...The biggest firms will have a head start,” says Johannah Ladd, secretary-general of the European Principal Traders Association. There may also be other challenges....
...My China Roots’s small team of researchers act like detectives, identifying villages through local historical associations and interviewing elderly residents to determine how the family has fared since the...
...Even so the industry is on alert, says Stéphane Graber, general secretary of the Geneva Trading & Shipping Association....
...Retirees in the UK tend to buy their retirement homes outright or rent through housing associations, whereas the US and New Zealand village model offers alternative payment structures....
...The association of the upmarket Swiss ski resort and the value-driven chain – with its racks of discounted trainers and tracksuits – feels unlikely....
...Its rival, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, has not joined the strike action....
...Simrany, the association’s president. “Signs that tea is becoming ever more ubiquitous are all around us,” he says....
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