Hints and tips:
...Meanwhile, the DPP is considering offering the speakership to Huang Shan-shan and nominating one of its own lawmakers as her deputy....
...Chao Chun-shan, a veteran China scholar who advised Taiwan’s last four presidents on cross-Strait relations, said the symbiotic relationship between Taiwanese and Chinese companies had become competitive...
...From Tai Mo Shan, its highest peak, to the chattering monkeys of Kam Shan and the Unesco Geopark in Sai Kung, there is enough here for a lifetime of exploration....
...Beijing had been expected to make a big push for talks with the KMT this year ahead of next January’s election at the same time as showing Tsai the cold shoulder, said Chao Chun-shan, a cross-Straits expert...
...“Beijing will not wait for Taiwan,” said Chao Chun-shan, one of Taiwan’s most senior China experts who has advised the last four presidents on cross-Strait policy....
...Chao Chun-shan, a China scholar who has advised four successive Taiwanese presidents on cross-Strait relations, predicts that Beijing will massively step up such tactics right after the elections....
...I asked Minxin Pei if it was stronger or perhaps weaker than he’d expected....
...They say the narcotics originate from neighbouring Myanmar, which has spun into political chaos and civil conflict since February’s military coup toppled Aung San Suu Kyi....
...Days after the central Chinese city of Wuhan was put on lockdown, Song Shan, a recovering stroke victim in his late 80s, was told he had to vacate his hospital bed to make room for coronavirus patients....
...“Without centralised, unified and firm leadership, China would have tended toward division and disintegration and caused widespread chaos beyond its own borders.”...
...Among the achievements cited by New Zealand’s governor-general was his founding of the Chao Shan General Association, an organisation focused on the Chinese community in New Zealand....
...“During the boom year in 2005 some 40 per cent of our sales were to mainland Chinese,” said Chao of Eslite....
...In Kachin and Shan states, religious minorities are indiscriminately bombed and used as human shields....
...Weijian Shan believes that China is better placed to survive a gruelling trade war than the US....
...Some of the misinformation appears calculated to create chaos....
...Chao Shan, however, stands out not just for the food but also for Nancy Seah and Koh Hoon Liang, the couple who run it....
...Duddell’s in Hong Kong’s Central district, the latest from restaurateur Paulo Pong, serves classic Cantonese food; Chao Shan Cuisine in Singapore, overseen by the indefatigable Nancy Seah, contrasts with...
...Shan Weijian, the former rainmaker of US buyout group TPG, has a stake in the first and KKR a stake in the second....
...century in its cultural positioning: from the confident Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Orsay, whose modern and impressionist showcases trumpet eras when Paris was the undisputed capital of world art, to IM Pei...
...Pei and Maki Associates, sit beside MIT’s neoclassical campus and house laboratories stuffed with Heath Robinson experiments, intellectual adventures in everything from robotics to nanotechnology....
...Chao Yu-pei, special assistant to the general manager at Want Want, said on Tuesday that the company had signed an agreement to buy a 60 per cent stake in CNS from MBK Partners, the private equity group....
...Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art, which dominates Doha’s famous corniche seafront....
...Perhaps that’s where my interest in – or facility with – chaos comes from.” Like his father, Koolhaas began his career as a journalist....
...China was then a communist society only just emerging from the fog and chaos of its Cultural Revolution....
...Kyrgyzstan is a failed state, a potential source of Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism and chaos in the region.”...
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