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...Simon Castets, head of the non-profit Swiss Institute for contemporary art in New York, is headed to Basel partly because of the impact of the pandemic....
...Letter in response to this article: CCP makes people’s lives and health its top priority / From Zeng Rong, Spokesperson, Chinese Embassy in the UK...
...“In our view, the use of a national scale in a transparent and credible way best serves Chinese bond markets at their current stage of development,” says Simon Jin, chief executive of S&P’s China business...
...Letter in response to this article: China has aided the Maldives’ transformation / From Zeng Rong, London, UK...
...“They are China’s champion,” says Simon Moores, managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a London-based research firm that tracks the battery market....
...She points to the work of Taryn Simon and Ahmed Mater....
...Collector Uli Sigg has donated more than 1,400 contemporary Chinese artworks, including works by some of China’s best-known artists, such as Ai Weiwei and Zeng Fanzhi....
...Zeng Jinyan, an activist who published Mr Chen’s fears after he left the embassy, has been under house arrest since Thursday, and Teng Biao, a lawyer who convinced Mr Chen to change his mind and ask to leave...
...Additional reporting by Simon Rabinovitch...
...For a man who is overseeing so much new investment, Zeng, the Wanlong director, could not conceal the wariness in his outlook....
...Highlights: No fewer than 15 of the 45 lots are expected to exceed US$1m, notably Zeng Fanzhi’s 1996 self-portrait which has been in the same ownership since it was acquired from the painter 12 years ago...
...Within days of opening its Hong Kong office, Bonhams had consigned a £50,000 canvas by contemporary painter Zeng Hao, a pair of jade Qianlong imperial spinach vases valued at up to £90,000 and a Yuan dynasty...
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