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...Sun Guofeng, head of the central bank’s monetary policy department, has been under investigation since May 2022....
...Working groups from the central bank, finance ministry and securities watchdog are involved in the debt resolution effort in those provinces and will report to Premier Li Qiang, two people familiar with...
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul, Joe Leahy and Sun Yu in Shanghai and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong...
...Despite Premier Li Qiang’s description of the latest programme as an “important measure” to resuscitate the country’s sinking economy, economists are more sceptical....
...Meet the two Royal College of Art graduates who went about recreating a mini sun on the ceiling, though it will set you back £8,000. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Emily Goldberg...
...First, Premier Li Qiang called for “more forceful and effective measures to stabilise the market and boost confidence”, as my colleagues Hudson Lockett and Cheng Leng reported from Hong Kong....
...Crusty sourdough is served with Marcona almonds, chicken liver parfait and an unusual but tasty bowl of warm olives, sun-blushed tomatoes and cured duck, which combined are wonderfully salty, sweet and smokey...
...From beneath that grey blanket, the white buildings of Taitung City and the Pacific Ocean could be seen gleaming under the sun in the distance. The base was home to the army’s Taitung Area Command....
...Policymakers led by Li Qiang, who took office in March, have yet to announce a comprehensive stimulus plan....
...China’s number two official, Premier Li Qiang, also met tech executives from TikTok owner ByteDance, food delivery group Meituan and Ma’s Alibaba Cloud, and assured them the government would normalise regulations...
...Premier Li Qiang, Xi’s new number two, signalled at China’s rubber-stamp parliament last month that the government would relax a crackdown on business that has wiped billions of dollars from property developers...
...The Chinese leader is expected to elevate Li Qiang, the former Shanghai party chief whom Xi worked with as governor of Zhejiang province in the 2000s, to premier and head of China’s State Council, or cabinet...
...Reporting by Joe Leahy, Ryan McMorrow, Sun Yu and Nian Liu in Beijing, Cheng Leng in Hong Kong and Kathrin Hille in Taipei...
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing...
...On Saturday, the NPC confirmed Xi’s appointment of a close ally, Li Qiang, the former Shanghai party boss, as the president’s number two....
...ensure that electricity producers only charge a set price and return additional profits, and the extent of support for power plants that are compelled to stay running to ensure supplies if a lack of wind or sun...
...“When I was a child, this was a developing country and no one had time for culture,” my guide Hong Chang Pyo tells me....
...So they’re bullish on residential REITs that own and operate more suburban properties (at least outside of the Sun Belt, where rents are softening)....
...Additional reporting by Kaye Wiggins and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong and Sun Yu and Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Among the winners was Chang Chien-Chi, a veteran photojournalist who has visited Ukraine four times this year....
...Li Qiang, the party’s top official in Shanghai who oversaw extreme lockdowns in the city this year, is set to become China’s next premier....
...TSMC founder Morris Chang said recently that globalisation was “almost dead”....
...On Monday, the Korean minister for trade, industry and energy Lee Chang-yang said “the act is highly likely to violate WTO regulations as well as the Korea-US free trade agreement”....
...In strong echoes of the rhetoric used by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Ma invoked China’s past humiliation at the hands of foreign invaders at a visit last week to the mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen, the founder...
...Three other individuals — Liu Fan, Sun Qiang, and Matthew Ziburis — were accused in a separate case of targeting three pro-democracy activists, including a California-based visual artist, starting in January...
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