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...Li’s CK Asset was likely preparing for a “worsening outlook” in the property market by choosing to sell in bulk rather than offloading the units to individual buyers which could take months, said Eric Wong...
...“It’s obvious [the authorities] have commenced targeting lawyers who are providing support to political prisoners in Hong Kong,” said Eric Yan-ho Lai of the Georgetown Center for Asian Law....
...“Stop immigration . . . let’s cede not one more centimetre to the Islamisation of our country,” said one-time presidential candidate Éric Zemmour. The distrust is affecting the private sphere....
...[Their taste] and flavour is hard to replicate,” Lau said. Wong, of the trade federation, said some old restaurants relied on visitors for up to 80 per cent of their business....
...With friends like these, it is no surprise that Macron’s pensions reform is sputtering in parliament, said Bruno Palier, an expert at Sciences Po university in Paris....
...“He forcefully contests committing any infraction,” said his lawyer Eric Dezeuze....
...Pascal Perrineau, a professor at Sciences Po university, said Zemmour’s rise was a sign of how the far-right was not a monolithic entity....
...He is a devotee of Eric Hobsbawm, the British Marxist historian who wrote about what he called the invention of tradition....
...Zen, Cantopop singer and Canadian citizen Denise Ho, veteran barrister Margaret Ng and scholar Hui Po-keung were detained, four people familiar with the situation said on Wednesday....
...Eric Lau, an analyst at Citi, said a one-week lockdown of just a few cities would have limited impact on most companies....
...“It’s a situation for the moment that bears witness to the fragility of French society,” Dominique Reynié, a political scientist at Sciences Po, said on Sunday night....
...And so Eric Zemmour gave the feeling that he was someone with no humanity....
...Abstention is just one sign of alienation and weariness with the election process, said Anne Muxel, a sociologist at Sciences Po university....
...(Reconquest) — that was a vehicle for his own ambitions and was originally called The Friends of Éric Zemmour....
...Bruno Cautrès, a political-science professor at Sciences Po, said the offer of autonomy was a short-term tactic aimed at trying to calm the situation down....
...they thought Macron had done a good job on the economy, will have a classical reflex which is to think ‘this is all going to end up with higher taxes one day’,” said Bruno Cautrès, a professor at Sciences Po...
...On Maundy Thursday, which felt like an auspicious day, trains were running pretty well, but not necessarily, as Eric Morecambe said, in the right order....
...“There has been a disintegration of French Socialism,” said Luc Rouban, a political scientist at Sciences Po. “But the other factor is the electorate.”...
...“If [Macron] fires Dupond-Moretti, he will be admitting he made a big hiring error just a year ago,” said Bruno Cautrès, a political scientist and professor at Sciences Po in Paris....
...Another far-right candidate, Eric Zemmour, a television talk-show polemicist who is an even more vociferous critic of immigration than Le Pen, is currently in fourth place with about 11 per cent; last week...
...Instead, many are tying their colours to more radical, fringe politicians such as Eric Zemmour, a TV polemicist who has been convicted for provoking racial hatred....
...Police unions have called for a “citizens’ march” in support of the force on Wednesday following the killing of Eric Masson, a 36-year-old officer shot dead this month in the city of Avignon during what...
...The failure to win at least one region “has sucked momentum away from the party”, said Valérie Igounet, an expert on the far-right at Sciences Po....
...Eric Heyer, a director of the French Economic Observatory at university Sciences Po, said many people have in effect simply switched from employment to freelancing to benefit from more favourable tax treatment...
...Eric Soyer brings Joseph Wright lighting to the endless tableaux and the Tunisian-born fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, who dressed everyone from Arletty to Jessye Norman, conjures a dazzling succession...
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