Hints and tips:
...“Our military has so far failed to present a clear concept for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in war fighting and to capitalise on our private sector’s significant capabilities in that field,” said...
...Boeing emerged as the dominant player in civil aerospace in the 1960s after a big field of rivals — many of which had prospered during the second world war — fell by the wayside or were taken over....
...The trail then reaches the small, deserted stone cottages and the silver-grass fields of Sunset Peak....
...From nowhere, a train glides through the gloaming across the marshy fields to my right. Even from a distance I can make out each passenger in the brightly lit carriages....
...It was the first ginger I’d ever seen in the field and shockingly beautiful. In southern China, ginger is a core ingredient in daily meals....
...The meanders of the great Syr Darya, Alexander the Great’s Jaxartes, lay ahead beyond the fields....
...The apples we know are the love child of the wild apples of the Tian Shan mountains in China and the small, hard, bitter European crab apple....
...The EU “urges China to show more ambition and genuine effort towards rebalancing and a level playing field”....
...At one point, Shan’s platoon marches 30km from the main camp to a remote field to harvest potatoes....
...Labourers were encouraged to eat and drink quickly and get back to the field without delay. So fast food is nothing new....
...Weijian Shan believes that China is better placed to survive a gruelling trade war than the US....
...“When all other battery applications are included, such as consumer electronics and energy storage, another field of potential substantial future growth, this figure increases to 275,000 tonnes of nickel...
...I shan’t be doing either. I was not a thin child. Billy Bunter, that was me. Despite all manner of parental bribery, diets never worked. Our dog, Humphrey, inspired my first successful diet....
...From my soundings before Christmas, I am optimistic that there will be a very good field of candidates for the DPR role....
...One of its reporters was arrested last June in the Shan state and held for two months....
...“The great 16th-century master Sen no Rikyu codified the Japanese tea ceremony and created the idea of a level playing field....
...Land conflicts pepper the hills and fields of Shan state. Perhaps the most disturbing is that of Myint Aung, a farmer who burnt himself to death last year after his land was seized by the army....
...We older people (he was in his forties at the time), we shan’t see it.’ Ten months later this same man, his name was Lenin, was dictator of one of the greatest empires in the world.” It was magic....
...Its windows look out over sheep fields to a lake, and Little Langdale beyond, among the prettiest of the Lake District villages. We loved our week there....
...But I suppose I shan’t now.”...
...“There are very competitive types in the finance field,” he says. “My sense is that anything related to health and the outdoors will do really well here.”...
...The undisclosed sum was, Michaan says, the “largest single transaction to ever occur in the field of decorative arts”....
...I met the current maestro, Wu Tsong-shan, 56, who had followed his father and grandfather into the business....
...At Sotheby’s, the traditional fields did well, with a tiny 17th-century ruby-red tea bowl, sold by the collector Alice Cheng, making a tidy US$9.6m....
...Luckily, our group isn’t relying on lifts or groomed pistes to explore the Tien Shan – which literally translates as “celestial mountains”....
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