Hints and tips:
...Aidan Yao, Asian economist at AXA Investment Managers, said: “If wider market contagion is provoked by further FX depreciation, official intervention could resume, in our view.”...
...Roger Lee, chief executive of TAL, a Hong Kong company with 11 factories in Asia that produces clothes for dozens of global brands, says wages have doubled over the past five years....
...“You have to have a grassroots component, it can’t just be marketing,” said David Rogers, executive director of Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership....
...Michael Moore, the American documentary film-maker, brilliantly – if possibly inadvertently – exposed this self-delusion in Roger & Me....
...Its push into the country has been helped by the Shanghai-born 7ft 6in Yao Ming joining the NBA in 2002. He now plays for the Houston Rockets....
...Principal dancer Jin Yao stars as the beautiful mechanical doll of the title. Performances continue until Sunday....
...Lombard Street for Wall Street in 2010 Anyone who thinks that the 2008 financial crisis is a new and unusual event on the world stage should read Walter Bagehot’s book, Lombard Street, written in 1873, says Roger...
...The NBA is tapping into basketball’s popularity in China, second only to football, and the 7ft 6in Yao Ming, one of China’s top sports stars and a leading player for the Houston Rockets, is helping to sell...
...It was more chilling than thrilling for Adidas, official Olympic sponsor and linked to Yao Ming, China’s 7ft 5in basketball star, and Nike, as they watched Li, the founder of the eponymous Chinese sportswear...
...Their flag was carried higher than anyone else’s, but then it was carried by the 7ft 6in basketball player Yao Ming....
...I’ve never made New Year’s resolutions, beyond continuing to try to run upstairs two at a time; also I never liked predictions for the year ahead, for fear of disappointment, as happened recently when Yao...
...“For tennis to really take off, we will need a Yao Ming figure,” says Mr Rhoads, referring to the basketball player who is one of the stars of America’s NBA (see Simon Kuper, left)....
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