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...Spotlight Tai Jeng-wu, who is stepping down as chief executive of Sharp next month, has pulled off a remarkable turnround for the electronics company....
...Yan SwiderskiGood money after bad Did you know it’s “Good Money Week”? No, me neither....
...In the first three months of the year, Wang Tai Holdings purchased two iron mine interests in Mongolia for a combined $5.5bn, including debt....
...Yan Kuang Group bought a coal mine from Rio Tinto for about $2.5bn....
...Urbanisation and rising disposable income will drive it, too, though “companies have to change their branding strategy and product offering to capture the incremental market growth”, says HSBC analyst Lina Yan...
...Hong Kong from China did not decline sharply over the past six months, the store traffic declined by more than 30 per cent as more visitors came from lower-tier cities with less spending power,” says Lina Yan...
...The judges chose two Chinese books as runners-up: The Seventh Day by Yu Hua and The Four Books by Yan Lianke....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan in Shanghai...
...Spokeswoman Arica Huang of WHM Group, which owns Shanghai Min, says it is a sort of “Chinese Starbucks” or a “younger Din Tai Fung”, a popular Taiwanese dumpling chain....
...From Prof Chin-Tai Kim and Prof Yeomin Yoon....
...But in Changxing, a county on the banks of Tai Lake in Zhejiang province, a much more concentrated city has sprouted from the fields....
...Additional reporting by Yan Jin...
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