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...Against a background of clipped, lightweight orchestral playing informed by period-instrument practice, Seong-Jin Cho radiated luminosity and exhibited a fresh individuality of spirit that gave the performance...
...But you might have missed one unexpected sales host: Richard Liu, founder of Chinese online retailer JD.com....
...Until April 10; further information and tickets here Performance ‘La bohème’, Royal Opera House A revival of Richard Jones’s 2017 staging of Puccini’s tragedy in the 100th anniversary of the composer’...
...Veteran film critic Richard Brody is scathing. (The New Yorker) After #MeToo, we can hear Christine Keeler’s real story....
...Now, it features conversations with well-known addicts — recent guests including Margaret Cho and Jack Osbourne....
...(FT) Video of the day South Korea’s Moon Jae-in faces his biggest fight A series of protests from opposition groups, sparked by the president’s appointment of Cho Kuk as justice minister, have dealt the...
...Additional reporting by Song Jung-a Letter in response to this article: Don’t let Winter Olympics be a political battleground / From Richard West, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK...
...Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Seong-Jin Cho (DG) A year on from winning the International Chopin Piano Competition Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea continues to play to his strengths....
...Richard Yu, head of consumer electronics at Huawei, told a conference last year that the company aimed to overtake Apple and Samsung within five years, and secure market share of 25 per cent....
...The prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition, held every five years, has just crowned its latest winner in Seong-Jin Cho....
...Many young pianists (especially the Russians) tend to play Chopin with a hard, diamond-cut edge, but not Seong-Jin Cho....
...• Axa Real Estate Investment Managers is expanding in Asia with the opening of an office in Seoul, South Korea, that will be headed up by Cho Yun Seok as head of business development....
...The so-called “nut-rage” spat sparked an outrage and forced Ms Cho to resign....
...When it finally comes into view, Cho Oyu looms to our left as we face eastward – and there it is....
...“I planted the trees with Cho Kawai! And Sam Francis paid for them. He gave us uniforms, to make us look official. Mine said ‘Marv’ on it.”...
...Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein....
...Joint Treasure represents the interests of several wealthy Asian family investors, including Hong Kong’s Chow Tai Fook Group, Singapore’s Wee Cho Yaw Family Group and David Chiu....
...Richard Elster, the academic, was hired by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war as an in-house intellectual....
...It has little to do with China or history – President Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking trip took place in 1972 – and everything to do with how Americans see the world, with their own backyard as its centre...
...Gordon’s modest designs and Linda Cho’s exotic costumes. The opera’s west coast premiere was cast from strength....
...Then Punk Ziegel analyst Richard Bove, via MarketBeat, fretted that in stashing debt spurned by investors on their balance sheets at model-derived values, rather than marking to market, the investment banks...
...Hyejin Cho, Seoul JR: There are few obvious substitutes for oil as a transportation fuel right now....
...There were 320m square metres of unsold property in China at the end of last year compared to 65m sq m in 2000, according to CB Richard Ellis....
...Mr Cho, the economist, says North Koreans are generally distrustful of their larger neighbour....
...“It is hard to write editorial independence [provisions] into a commercial contract,” Mr Cho says....
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