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...Chen Chuandong, director of the Hefei Housing Bureau in China’s eastern Anhui province, said in a speech this year that completing stalled apartments was a “political task” that developers and banks should...
...“The CCP is not held accountable, not held in check by inter-party competition or election, or the need to appeal to voters,” said the University of Sydney’s Chen....
...Chen Yixin, the minister of state security, and his predecessor Chen Wenqing have been elevated to more important Communist party positions than past intelligence chiefs....
...Letter in response to this article: Beijing should have more confidence in itself / From Kuan-Cheng Chen, Taoyuan City, Taiwan...
...“China’s growth model has run its course,” says Chen Zhiwu, professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong....
...Wang Chen, an NPC vice-chairman, said on Friday that Hong Kong's electoral system had “loopholes and deficiencies” that could allow “anti-China forces” to seize control in the city....
...Dr Chen’s research has been the subject of multiple glowing reports in Chinese state media that praise her work ethic and efficiency....
...Some senior officials have tried to intervene to prevent the anti-Hubei attitudes from taking hold, including Chen Bei, Beijing’s deputy secretary-general, who at a press conference this month urged people...
...(FT) Why women shun maths All UK students study maths until the age of 16, with boys and girls achieving broadly similar GCSE results....
...Ni Lexiong, a defence expert at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, says China would not rule out the possibility of a protracted war with the US....
...(NYT) NY homebuyers shun Gatsby binge Wealthy New Yorkers are eschewing splashy, Great Gatsby-style suburban mansions, with property prices plummeting and grand homes languishing on the market as consumer-taste...
...And even if you could use this process to find a majority for some version of Brexit, you would still have to get the Withdrawal Agreement Bill (and NI backstop) through the Commons — which looks pretty...
...Fifa has secured crucial financial backing from another Chinese company as western groups continue to shun the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, signing up the smartphone maker Vivo in a €400m sponsorship deal....
...As the group of Fujianese waited by the road to welcome Chinese president Xi Jinping, locals greeted them in turn with honking horns, thumbs-up signals and shouts of ni hao (hello) from public buses....
...“Concerns about food have shifted more towards nutrition,” said Summer Chen, senior food and drink analyst at Mintel. Perceptions about health drive purchases more than nutritional facts....
...The raising of the NI threshold to £9,500 amounts to about £2 a week but that's hardly going to make a huge difference....
...Of the BlackBerry smartphones sold through to end customers in the fourth quarter, the majority, about 2.3m, were older BlackBerry 7 devices as customers continued to shun the latest phones based on its...
...It was reopened in 2003 by Chen Shuntong’s grandsons....
...Taking over as executive chairman and interim chief executive was John Chen, a Hong Kong native who successfully sold Sybase, a business software company, to SAP for nearly $6bn in 2010....
...Tang Ning, a financier in Beijing who shuns ties for open collars, argues that profit is perfectly consistent with communism, so long as it is fair....
...Ketty Chen, a political scientist, says concerns are largely pragmatic. “The centre of the population, they don’t really feel nationalistic about Diaoyutai compared to the Chinese,” he says....
...They are Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist; Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and human rights activist; Ni Yulan, a lawyer representing land eviction cases; and Chen Guangcheng, a blind human rights activist...
...Chinese opera’s recent international profile rests largely on two quite different productions of The Peony Pavilion – Chen Shizheng’s historically informed re-creation (commissioned by New York’s Lincoln...
...“It does have a rich umami taste,” said chef Chen Judi, “but there’s also a bitter aftertaste that people in this region wouldn’t like at all.”...
...But Ni Chou-hwa, an official at the Ministry of Education, says the number of Chinese students will initially be capped at 1,000....
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