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...Additional reporting by Robert Wright...
...Was J Robert Oppenheimer right to be racked by guilt? Or was President Harry Truman right to call him a “crybaby” — for regretting the last act of savagery needed to end a savage war?...
...KMT supporters accuse the DPP candidate Lai Ching-te of risking war with China, while the ruling party suggests KMT hopeful Hou Yu-ih’s talk about more compromise with Beijing would endanger Taiwan’s sovereignty...
...But Lai has been clear he would follow Tsai’s cautious China policy stance — leaving Beijing with no pretext for an assault....
...Overseas judges also visit Hong Kong to sit on the Court of Final Appeal, although Lord Robert Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court, and Lord Patrick Hodge, who also sits on the UK’s top court, resigned...
...Kaplan and colleagues Robert Harris and Tim Jenkinson were then handed a hoard of private equity fund performance data from consultants Burgiss....
...And Stephen, just finally, Cleverly said he raised human rights: China’s security crackdown on Hong Kong, the case of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, China’s malign cyber activity....
...Och decided “now is not the right time to transition to Jimmy” and hired Credit Suisse executive Robert Shafir instead....
...Andreessen Horowitz has promoted Jon Lai to general partner and hired gaming industry veteran James Gwertzman as a general partner on its consumer investing team....
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...Hong Kong media mogul taken into custody Jimmy Lai, who runs Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper, was denied bail on Thursday and will remain in custody until at least April....
...In an interview with NBC on Sunday, Robert O’Brien, the White House national security adviser, questioned whether international companies could continue operating in Hong Kong....
...His great-grandfather, Alfred, began making glasses in the Jura region of France in the 1930s; Maison Bonnet was founded by Alfred’s son, Robert, in 1950, and subsequent clients have included Yves Saint...
...Hollywood in couture before that was a thing – Bette Midler and Faye Dunaway wore Lacroix, as did the wives of M&A magnates and corporate raiders: Gayfryd Steinberg, wife of Saul; Blaine Trump, wife of Robert...
...Michael Lai has also joined as a portfolio manager for China equities, based in Hong Kong. Mr Lai joins from GAM where he oversaw the Swiss asset manager’s China equities strategy....
...Before Robert’s death in 2009, Margarita promised she would safeguard the business....
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...Once Huarong’s chairman Lai Xiaomin, pictured, was detained in April for corruption, the result was a shock to credit access and a number of defaults....
...Until the financial crisis, private equity investors such as Blackstone hewed closely to the “buyout” playbook pioneered by Henry Kravis and George Roberts when they founded KKR in the 1970s....
...many Brazilian collectors have cooled their buying these past few years, in parallel with a struggling economy, Inhotim has works in production for 2018 including by Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama and a major Robert...
...The Belgian gallery Maniera is showing a series of stools/side tables in plywood and mirrored acrylic by Trix and Robert Haussmann....
...Among the strong principal singers, only the magisterial mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts (Bao Chai) has performed previously here....
...Lai Fong, who sells cheaper local specialities such as egg rolls and almond cookies, complained that while sales were down about 30 per cent compared with last year, her costs are still high....
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