Hints and tips:
...Mimi Xu: “I don’t queue for nightclubs, but I’ll queue for food.”...
...My father [Albert Yaying Xu] designed the acoustics in these spaces....
...Time did not seem to be on Chris Xu’s side when he threw himself into the cut-throat world of Chinese entrepreneurship....
...“We have to recognise and realise that we are still far lagging behind instead of thinking that we could quickly rock the world . . ....
...Nicholas Basso has joined Peak Rock Capital as a managing director, focused on credit investments. He previously worked at Oaktree Capital Management....
...“The idea is to connect countries with [clean energy] resources, with those that have the demand,” explains Xu Yi-chong, author of Sinews of Power: The Politics of the State Grid Corporation....
...Other highlights include Chen Hongshou’s delicate, pink-tipped 17th-century ink on silk “Lotus and Rock” (est $1m-$1.5m) and Xu Beihong’s 1935 “Galloping Horse” (est $150,000-$250,000)....
...Domestic industry must prioritise domestically produced coal, because the slowdown in demand has softened prices, says Xu Zhongbo of Beijing Metal Consulting....
...Pang Bo, winner of Rock & Roast, a Roast spin-off in which roasters compete against each other, had just one year of comedy experience before he became one of China’s top comedians....
...In another video, Xu Bing filmed pigs copulating in a front of a gawping gallery audience....
...“If you look at implied volatility, it is at or near one-year lows across every asset class and nearly every region” we track, said Mandy Xu, a derivatives strategist at Credit Suisse....
...Beijing says the territorial rights date back 2,000 years but they are being buttressed by its claims to dozens of tiny islands, shoals, reefs and underwater rocks throughout the sea....
...A solitary worker kicks rocks in an empty street. Like its counterparts in the UK and southern Australia, the Zhayi mill is a victim of a global industry in crisis....
...Austrian artist collective, made a number of sales in the US$16,000 to $50,000 range, while on the upper level, among Ben Brown’s sales were a large image of Shanghai by Wang Keping (about €40,000) and a Xu...
..., centres this year on Xu Bing’s clusters of rocks, flowers and little ceramic figures; animals and houses installed to evoke a Chinese landscape painting around the circular pond on the south lawn....
...“You can’t go on flipping over every rock.” So far, however, Mr Xi has shown little sign of reining in the campaign....
...One of Xu’s large works, consisting entirely of Chinese characters of Xu’s own invention, hangs on the wall....
...Eric Xu, who last month took over as one of the three rotating chief executives of Huawei, said the Chinese telecoms equipment group had not spoken to BlackBerry during the recent sales process and would...
...Some demonstrators threw rocks and water bottles at the Japanese embassy chanting, “Diaoyu Islands are China’s” and urging Beijing: “Flatten Tokyo, destroy Japan!”...
...Call it “justified” or a “seven-year itch”, after the rock-bottom yields of 2003, but there are some extreme trends taking hold in Japan....
...Soprano Xu Xiaoying’s Anna was filled with lyrical warmth, though her enunciation barely made it past the first few rows....
...Yet that was July 19 and by then the die was cast for Northern Rock....
...asks Prof Xu....
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