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...The president of China’s top tech-focused investment bank, Cong Lin, a veteran banker who had run ICBC International, was detained in 2022....
...After joining other dissidents in the US, Wang Wen-hung became an ardent supporter of Taiwan independence....
...Over the course of a long foreign trip that has seen her visit the US twice, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has delivered a consistent and blunt message....
...At the surrender of Japan in 1945 Puyi (who became the 11th and final emperor of the Qing dynasty in 1908 at the age of two) was captured by the Soviets and imprisoned in Chita as a prisoner of war, then...
...Chef Tak Chow, who runs the canteen’s kitchen, served as the apprentice of Li “Broken Teeth” Cheng, one of whose ancestors was the household chef for the prominent Qing dynasty official Gong Taai Si....
...Cong Liang, a senior official at the National Development and Reform Commission, said on Monday that it would “keep researching measures to cut taxes and fees to help small and medium sized companies get...
...Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) at the weekend formally appointed Hung Hsiu-chu as its presidential candidate, to face off against Tsai Ying-wen of the Democratic Progress party who secured her candidacy...
...“England I can forgive but not Japan,” Wen Pengzhi, a 13-year-old student from Sichuan province, says after viewing the exhibition with his classmates....
...For example, ‘receipts from Tài Lái Hào ([泰来号] = Tài Lái grocery): wine one unit, short of 1.5 jīn [斤], 33 wén [文]’, to assist internal checking and auditing....
...Wen Jiabao, the premier who will step down this Friday, was always careful to keep his wife, a jewellery expert, out of the limelight as her extensive business dealings tarnished his reputation and fuelled...
...Some internet users likened Mr Bo’s downfall to the fate of the “Gang of Four”, a group of senior officials, including Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, who governed China through much of the disastrous 1966...
...Macao, with its own historical claims to Dr Sun, chose the symphonic route for its centennial celebration of Sun’s Xinhai revolution, which overthrew the Qing dynasty and paved the way for modern China....
...The Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were far more enduring. But even they came and went....
...Even today, Mr Ai says, top Chinese leaders such as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao can recite Ai Qing’s poetry by heart....
...Economist Wang Qing, now with Morgan Stanley, was able to track how investment soared in the year leading up to the previous three congresses, and peaked in the new leadership’s honeymoon period of the next...
...As Mackay’s wife, Zhang Cong-Mingthe, Taiwanese soprano Mei-Lin Chen was emotionally charged both vocally and physically, communicating her character as much through body movements as her singing....
...Tsai Ying-wen, chairwoman of the DPP, said: “It’s a matter of the mismanagement of the economy, mismanagement of cross-strait affairs and mismanagement of sovereignty issues.”...
...“Our top task is maintaining steady and relatively fast economic growth,” Wen Jiabao, prime minister, said on Monday....
...Wen Jiabao, the premier, reinforced the government’s message in a statement to the State Council on Wednesday, saying China needed to continue to control investment and credit growth....
...Then, another sort of history, a part of history, I think is the Yuan, and then Qing dynasty....
...Wen Jiabao, the premier, and other top leaders have publicly questioned the merits of giant hydropower projects....
...By the mid-1990s, it was far easier to find obliging venture capitalists (or “VCs”, like the Viet Cong) than it was to find a carpenter or plumber....
...Mongolia was ruled by the last Chinese imperial dynasty, the Qing, until 1911....
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