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...Last year the FT unmasked Evergrande boss Hui Ka Yan as the owner of London’s most expensive home....
...Many of his pieces express this interdependence of rural and urban environments, for example the opera Yan Tan Tethera and Panic (after the Greek god Pan), the succès de scandale of the 1995 Last Night of...
...Yet she and two other Hong Kongers — Jim, a photographer, and Peter Chan, an engineer — all expressed some optimism....
...I really enjoyed the one with Yan Lianke, who gives an insight into reality living in China and how to survive as a novelist in a heavily censored society....
...At least three Chinese nationals, Ng Lap Seng, Shiwei Yan and Heidi Hong Piao, have been convicted of bribing a UN official....
...Of the more recent offerings, Yan Lianke’s Three Brothers and its remarkable insight into the realities of recent Chinese history told through the story of his family left an impression....
...“Every day we’re learning of new tricks that the virus plays,” says Peter Openshaw, professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London....
...Still, investors had better dig in for a lengthy process, said Peter Alexander, managing director of Z-Ben Advisors, a Shanghai-based consulting group....
...Peter Rees, professor of city planning at the Bartlett faculty of the built environment at University College London, has warned that the Thames could be “lined with derelict towers” in a century’s time,...
...“Hong Kong still serves as China’s most important international financial centre,” says Peter Cheung, professor of politics at the University of Hong Kong....
...In one of the most perceptive passages in his book, Frankopan quotes an influential Chinese academic, Yan Xuetong....
...But the company decided instead that a tie-up with Daimler made the most financial and strategic sense, with its founder Yan Hascoet saying on Thursday: “More and more you need to have lots of financial...
...The company’s founder and chairman, Hui Ka Yan, controls 73.8 per cent of the its shares, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Works by Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake and Howard Hodgkin will also go under the hammer....
...“People think it’s hard to sustain such high prices,” said Chen Yan, deputy general manager of Steelhome, a steel market consultancy in Shanghai. “This is a normal market correction.”...
...The Explosion Chronicles, by Yan Lianke, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99 An absurdist satire of breakneck urbanisation by one of China’s leading dissident writers....
...“If you take all their crimes together,” says Yan Glassey, a senior detective in Geneva’s police force, who appeared in Smash and Grab, “they are probably the best jewellery thieves in the world.”...
...Yan Khanov, a former assistant to Russia’s economy minister, recalls a meeting in 2014 when the AvtoVAZ executive was accompanied by an armed bodyguard....
...Peter Frankopan: ‘Silk Roads: A New History of the World’ Monday April 4, 2pm, Oxford Martin School, lecture theatre, £12 Writer and academic Peter Frankopan reassesses the passage of world history in his...
...According to US media reports, Ms Xue has hired Peter Zeidenberg, a lawyer at Arent Fox, to defend her....
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan, Julie Zhu, Tom Mitchell and Gabriel Wildau...
...Additional reporting by Zhang Yan in Shanghai...
...The Four Books, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/Grove Press, RRP$27 Banned in mainland China, Yan’s novel is set in a “re-education camp” in northern China between...
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