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...During a rare visit in April, Beijing’s top bureaucrat overseeing Hong Kong, Xia Baolong, said protests were “not the only way” to express dissent....
...“[The results] also showed that those who got elected are of the same monochromatic background,” he said, despite comments ahead of the election from Xia Baolong, Beijing’s top bureaucrat overseeing Hong...
...The newcomer, po-faced Dr Sharon, is possibly the only person in the world who’s immune to Ted’s goofy charm....
...Shang Xia, 8 Rue des Sèvres, 75006 (shang-xia.com) The beauty products I’m never without are Ambre Sultan perfume by Serge Lutens and some little artisanal herbal soaps that I buy in Mougins each summer...
...“Verifone’s transformation from a hardware provider to a best-in-class payments and commerce solutions provider is just beginning,” said Jason Brein, partner at Francisco Partners....
...“Building nothing is always the most sustainable course of action,” says Jun Xia, of Gensler’s Shanghai office....
...I’m not so po-faced as to object to July using and to a degree ridiculing her PennySaver sellers. Writers “use” people routinely and we are all each others’ material....
...But nor, as Jason Burke points out, did it lose. It had the limits to its military might and political reach mercilessly exposed....
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