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...With his own work off limits in China and recently censored in Hong Kong, Ai is coruscating about western museums such as the Pompidou, Tate and the V&A that have been paid millions by state-owned companies...
...(I went to two weddings in two different states last week and I’m still recovering.)...
...The critics’ critics correctly countered that they beat life on the farms the workers had come from, and were very good at reducing poverty. And that was basically it....
...Of the world’s cities with the worst air pollution last year, ranked by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, the top 148 are all in the Asia-Pacific region....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...We’ve already covered Sanders’ trade views at Trade Secrets, and pointed out that while he embraces multilateralism and holds corporations, rather than nation states, accountable for “bad deals”, his protectionist...
...It is hardly the only steel company to be in trouble. In recent months, AK Steel of Ohio has shut a facility in Kentucky, and Bayou Steel of Louisiana has filed for bankruptcy....
...It was a chance to “imbue them with the company’s ethos and spirit”....
...The corporation has the purpose of “stabilising, supporting, and protecting farm income and prices”....
...The threat of Chinese tariffs on imports of US LNG is a potentially serious blow to the hopes of companies planning to invest in a new wave of export projects in Texas, Louisiana and Alaska....
...With companies such as Coca-Cola and Amazon banging at its door, the state government relented a week later on bottles of drinking water over 200ml, medical packaging, wrapping materials thicker than 50...
...Both are state-of-the-art technologies in Vietnam....
.... —————- The case for trade and the TPP has largely been won in Nebraska, a proud farm state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...Importantly, from JCap’s Anne Stevenson-Yang in August: The Chinese economy, in which the discretionary power of corporations, especially State-owned corporations, is vastly superior to that of individuals...
...They have a far more sophisticated understanding of the permeability of architecture — the fire escapes, the service ducts, the vaults and the sewers....
...Damien Frawley had something of a baptism of fire when he took over as chief executive of the Queensland Investment Corporation three years ago....
...For companies – from multinational corporations to small businesses – this amounts to higher costs for a resource that has long been taken for granted....
...Costa Crociere, the operator which is a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation, said in a statement: “Inspections on the state of the engine room are ongoing, in order to restart the necessary equipment to reactivate...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Ravi endured grinding poverty on his family’s farm: a dozen acres of dry land in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu....
...Globalization brought fierce competition to the companies and cities that made anything that could be easily shipped across the Pacific....
...It can accommodate 24 combat-armed troops on crashworthy seats, or 12 casualties on stretchers plus attendants....
...Dalian is home to part of China’s strategic petroleum reserves and at one point the fire threatened a tank farm in the port, a possible reason for such high-level concern....
...Investors in Jain now include Singapore’s Temasek, George Soros’s Quantum Fund and the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank group....
...Non-life insurers in Japan have been hit by a decline in housing starts, which has depressed demand for fire insurance, and slumping car sales, which have cut into demand for casualty insurance....
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