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...It resigned as auditor of Sunac, Shimao and R&F in 2022. The Evergrande audits were carried out by PwC’s Hong Kong business, filings show....
...Rita Ku & Ser, a Hong Kong-based law firm focusing on family law and wealth management....
...(A serene Ho Chi Minh gazes at me from the banknotes with which I settle a bar bill. Up the street is a Bang & Olufsen.)...
...It follows a period in which the firm built up a significant business auditing Chinese real estate groups: PwC has also acted for others that have struggled, such as Country Garden, Sunac, R&F Properties...
...On a sweltering summer evening on the terrace of Le Comptoir des Saints-Pères, a neighbourhood brasserie where F Scott Fitzgerald, concerned over the size of his manhood, once exposed himself to Ernest Hemingway...
...It is relatively easy for [money laundering] criminals to purchase precious metal with crime proceedings,” said Rita Li, head of the customs department’s Syndicate Crimes Investigation Bureau....
...In addition to defanging Russia as an adversary, my guess is that this “special military operation” has made China’s Xi Jinping considerably less gung-ho on the prospect of a full-scale amphibious invasion...
...Gung-ho Bond and conscience-stricken Smiley alike did their bit for British espionage exceptionalism. However, a gulf divides the real-world records of both men....
...P-I-M-F-A. Claer Barrett Write this down, people. Moira O’Neill They show you what wealth managers in the City, what types of asset allocations they’re doing for their client....
...But this was to be no ordinary stay at the pleasure palace immortalised in F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Tender is the Night....
...Sun Kwai Heung Shop 17, G/F, Goldmine Building Block A, 345 Chai Wan Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Good for: A trip out of the city centre Not so good for: Big seatings....
...They are expected to meet US president Joe Biden, who is in the city for a Democratic fundraising event, at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library....
...Hey ho for badger lard and yak butter. Pulling gently into the last station, I order some seared Scottish king scallops to clear the palate....
...“And the other thing is that friends use the F-word to each other! They are not each other’s enemies, so why do they use these words?”...
...No 9 SBI Canteen 4/F & 5/F, 7-11 Mercer Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Good for: Group dinners with friends Not so good for: Candlelit dates FYI: The portions are quite big (Directions) I’m not entirely...
...Photography by Tory Ho What is your favourite coffee shop in Hong Kong?...
...Garnish with a gold chocolate coin La Chinesca, by Jay Khan of Coa Shop A, LG/F Wah Shin House, 6-10 Shin Hing Street, Central, Hong Kong To celebrate Hong Kong in a cocktail glass, I wanted to reflect...
...Ho-Fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University professor, said China did not want to take the “slightest chance” of the elections not going their way “[The Chinese government] are not sure they have full control...
...It arrives on a white baguette, as it would in Ho Chi Minh City, where the French left a tradition of bakery that continues to this day....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...In the investment advisory community, the F word — fiduciary — is uttered often and loudly....
...Hans Tung and Rita Yang at GGV Capital have an interesting podcast here on why community buying works in China....
...The prime minister's wife, Ho Ching, is the CEO and executive director of state investment fund Temasek Holdings. Her compensation is not disclosed....
...Ellroy thought his father was lying when he said: “Hey kid, I f***ed Rita Hayworth.” Years after Ellroy’s father died, he picked up a biography of the Hollywood star....
...Beachfront villas at Melia Ho Tram at the Hamptons, a resort about two hours’ drive from HCMC, start at $790,000, available through Savills....
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